Aprovecho Research Centre, Southern Africa, Rocket Stoves - Ashden Award winner

This video can be downloaded here: http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/aprovecho Aprovecho won an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2006.

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The Aprovecho Research Centre has assisted the Programme for Biomass Energy Conservation in Southern Africa (ProBEC) in designing biomass stoves for institutional cooking in Lesotho, Malawi, Uganda, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia. Over 1,500 institutional stoves have been produced and sold by entrepreneurs.

Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world. There is a huge problem of de-forestation, partly as a result of the high population density and also because large areas of land are taken up with cash crops such as tobacco and tea, which also use enormous amounts of wood for processing. Fuelwood and charcoal are the main fuels for cooking both in homes and institutions in rural areas.

In each country ProBEC has involved entrepreneurs in training workshops, where a woodstove of suitable efficiency for each country is developed and engineered with the assistance of an Aprovecho Research Consultant. The stoves are targeted at large institutions, such as schools, prisons and tea-estate kitchens, and use the Aprovecho 'Rocket' combustion approach to give high combustion efficiency and efficient heat transfer to the cooking pot. Practical experience suggests that using the stove saves at least 50% of fuelwood, sometimes more, which can give significant financial savings. The reduction in carbon monoxide and particulates provides a much healthier environment for institutional cooks. Stove production businesses are now well established in Malawi, Uganda and Lesotho, and have produced and sold more than 1,500 institutional stoves. Ken Chilewe, the main producer in Malawi, has made 700 of these.

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[oyamasandayo]

大変貴重な、映像です。私も試験的なロケットストブを作りました­、結果は大変満足しています。本格的な二作目を作ります。ロケッ­トストーブ世界に広げたいですね

[WeHugTrees2]

well made video and very informative

[neotoy]

Thanks for helping to raise awareness!

[jbloch69]

You could make a rocket stove from clay as clay ovens are made. Oven makers clay is made with enough clay to hold a two inchi ball together mixed with enough sand to stop it squashing when dropped from the hip. The inner, heat accumulating layer is s mixed with a small amount of straw and outer layers insulating layers with more straw. It would serve the poorest who cant afford a brought stove and it would be safely solid, you can build up the clay till it is solid. rose .