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In 2014 SAAP hosted a group of students from the [[University of Dayton]] in the USA who focused on solar panels that ran refrigerators in clinics in rural areas, where loss of power causes vaccines to be ruined by the heat.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.udayton.edu/engineering/ethos/student-experiences/patna.php|title=Patna, India : University of Dayton, Ohio|website=www.udayton.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-02-21|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321010122/https://www.udayton.edu/engineering/ethos/student-experiences/patna.php|archivedate=2017-03-21|df=}}</ref> These strudents from [[Dayton]] took what they learned back to the [[United States|States]] and produced a solar-powered refrigerator that won the [[American Society of Civil Engineers]] 2016 award for the best sustainable engineering design by a student team.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.asce.org/dayton-students-solar-refrigerator-breakthrough-earns-asce-sustainability-award/|title=Dayton Students’ Solar Refrigerator Breakthrough Earns ASCE Sustainability Award {{!}} ASCE News|website=news.asce.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-02-21|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506165436/http://news.asce.org/dayton-students-solar-refrigerator-breakthrough-earns-asce-sustainability-award/|archivedate=2017-05-06|df=}}</ref>

==Research and outcomes==

==Products==

The range of products produced by SAAP, mainly with Scheffler reflectors, include solar electricity, cookers, hot water, steam for turbines, and refrigerators. "Solar Mathew", as he is popularly known,<ref name=green/> also produces at his training and production facility heat storage devices and multipurpose windmills. SAAP has installed four solar tunnel dryers in the North-East for various local self-help groups to preserve and export chillies and ginger throughout the year. The research and development wing of SAAP has developed a prototype solar-powered cycle rickshaw.<ref name="tribune">{{Cite web|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060226/society.htm|title=The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Education Tribune|website=www.tribuneindia.com|access-date=2017-02-21|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422004104/http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060226/society.htm|archivedate=2017-04-22|df=}}</ref> SAAP has also developed a solar crematorium which saves on trees and is a cheaper option for the poor.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/jesuit-priest-planning-to-set-up-solar-crematorium-in-patna_100284697.html|title=Jesuit priest planning to set up solar crematorium in Patna|newspaper=Thaindian News|access-date=2017-02-21|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819232404/http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/jesuit-priest-planning-to-set-up-solar-crematorium-in-patna_100284697.html|archivedate=2016-08-19|df=}}</ref>

Tripolia Social Service Hospital, a private charitable hospital in Patna, is one institution that has been totally outfitted by SAAP solar technology, to sterilise medical equipment, sanitise the hospital’s laundry, heat water for baths and medicines, light outdoor pathways at night, and power a residential building and office. The solar dishes track the movement of the sun.<ref name=green/>