[Stoves] RE ARUSHA BRIQUETTE CONFERENCE
sekiku Joseph
sekiku at satconet.net
Thu Sep 23 22:28:34 CDT 2010
Dear Richard and the organizers of the Arusha Stove Conference,
I am called Joseph Sekiku and come from Kagera region, NW Tanzania. I am myself into promoting the use of renewable energy for the numerous environmental and human benefits. I wrote some notes on the HEDON NEWS website a few years ago and also have been following very closely the developments by many promoters of cookstoves via the stoves mailing list.
I would be happy to participate in the Arusha conference because of the opportunity this seems to avail to the development of working solutions that are intended to improve rural livelihoods.
THE SITUATION IN KARAGWE/ KAGERA REGION:
1. RURAL HOUSEHOLD POVERTY
2. ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
3. INCREASED INDOOR POLLUTION AND RESPIRATORY INFENCTIONS
a) Rural Household Poverty: The chains and confines of poverty (income poverty) is eating into the heart of rural households. With uncertain and unstable incomes, rural households find themselves torn apart. The choice to have a meal, to meet the essential commodities, the requirement to cost share in education, health, etc.. leaves the rural household at a cross road- because, the meagre income has to be shared to meet also the needs to cook a meal.
This quest to have an income not only has forced rural households to clear forests/ trees to make charcoal that is sold in urban areas. The efforts at replanting are very small- but also considering the rate at which forests are cut , ftrees that have taken years to matures are cleared in a day. So it becomes more the questions of survival other than environment conservation.
b) increasing urbanisation is increasing pressure on natural resources. The fact that most households in urban areas depend on charcoal to cook meals, has made efforts to prevent further environmental (deforestation) impossible in Kargawe. Peoople have no alternative power to cook food: Electricirty from the grid is available only to a minute population and it is very expensive. The use of grid power for cooking and industrialization is still underveloped also- and limited for lighting purposes only.
So it is also difficult for the law enforcer to stop tree cutting because, he too uses charcoalt to cook his food. No alternative has been put to the comunities.
BUT IN KARAGWE, THERE IS ALOT OF BIOMASS FROM COFFEE FACTORIES. Over 40,000 Metric tons of coffeee husks is produced every year- but this ends up as ash because the factories just burn these husks.
I have been wondering, how much energy is lost through this? A lot of energy is lost and nothing is done.
So I find that the Arusha conference will help me learn how perhaps to develop cooffe husk brickets, jikos or cook stoves that wold employ these coofee husks... to save the forests.
I will write more.
Regards,
Sekiku Joseph Director
FADECO Community Radio
Plot 281/283 Kagera Street, Ruzinga Area, Kayanga
PO Box 223, Karagwe- Kagera Region (Tanzania)
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----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Stanley
To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
Cc: Stanley Joyce ; Kitutu Steve
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 12:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Stoves] RE ARUSHA BRIQUETTE CONFERENCE
Lazarous,
Thanks for getting in touch with us. However we are not in the business of charcoal/ charcola briquette produciton by mechanised means. We use hand presses of various types and can use charcoal IF it is a biproduct of existing charcoal produciotn activities. A 25% addition of such crumbs and dust ( off the floor) to the usual leaves grass straw paper blend, (by dry weight) will increase the heat of a normal leaf and grass and paper blend briquette to the same or better output than the original charcoal.
Below are some samples from a project we did in Bamako Mali, several years ago. There are hundreds of these blends in use in East Africa today...
The point is that we will not be promoting charcoal making per se., but rather, agro residue fuel briquetting using ordiary scraps of leaves stras hucks waste paper rice husks and so on...(see the video attached to our website <www.legacyfound.org >for an explanation of the process.
If you still feel it might be relevent to your needs and experience, you would be most welcome.
Please let us know.
Richard Stanley
Top left 45% charcoal dust crumbs in the stf agroresidue blend: top right 25% charcoal dust and crumbs...:The other two samples are of rice straw, paper and sawdust...
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On Sep 23, 2010, at 3:06 AM, Lazarus Chewe wrote:
Dear Richard,
My name is lazarous Chewe i'm based in Zambia. i run a biomass energy enterpise ( D&W Enterprise)that is principally involved in production ,promotion of charcoal and production of briquettees here in Lusaka. I would be grateful if you could give me more informetion on the criteria for registration etc to November conference in Arusha.
Best Regards
Lazarous Chewe
Lazarous Chewe
Dread & Works Enterprise
C/o Lydia Chota
P/Bag RW1 Ridgeway
Lusaka
Zambia
Mobile: +260 977 354 828
Email: chewelazarus at yahoo.com
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Lazarous,
Thanks for getting in touch with us. However we are not in the business of charcoal/ charcola briquette produciton by mechanised means. We use hand presses of various types and can use charcoal IF it is a biproduct of existing charcoal produciotn activities. A 25% addition of such crumbs and dust ( off the floor) to the usual leaves grass straw paper blend, (by dry weight) will increase the heat of a normal leaf and grass and paper blend briquette to the same or better output than the original charcoal.
Below are some samples from a project we did in Bamako Mali, several years ago. There are hundreds of these blends in use in East Africa today...
The point is that we will not be promoting charcoal making per se., but rather, agro residue fuel briquetting using ordiary scraps of leaves stras hucks waste paper rice husks and so on...(see the video attached to our website <www.legacyfound.org >for an explanation of the process.
If you still feel it might be relevent to your needs and experience, you would be most welcome.
Please let us know.
Richard Stanley
Top left 45% charcoal dust crumbs in the stf agroresidue blend: top right 25% charcoal dust and crumbs...:The other two samples are of rice straw, paper and sawdust...
On Sep 23, 2010, at 3:06 AM, Lazarus Chewe wrote:
> Dear Richard,
> My name is lazarous Chewe i'm based in Zambia. i run a biomass energy enterpise ( D&W Enterprise)that is principally involved in production ,promotion of charcoal and production of briquettees here in Lusaka. I would be grateful if you could give me more informetion on the criteria for registration etc to November conference in Arusha.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Lazarous Chewe
>
>
> Lazarous Chewe
>
> Dread & Works Enterprise
>
> C/o Lydia Chota
>
> P/Bag RW1 Ridgeway
>
> Lusaka
>
> Zambia
>
>
>
> Mobile: +260 977 354 828
>
> Email: chewelazarus at yahoo.com
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>
>
>
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