[Stoves] advice for chimney wood stove for rural Burkina Faso

Otto Formo formo-o at online.no
Fri Feb 3 04:42:16 CST 2012


Dear Francesco,

Yes, your budget is low, but still it can cater for the material costs of a gasifier unit in stainless steel, to be used without a chimney, 90% less emisson than a three stone fire and more than 50% reduction in the need of wooden biomass.
No need for welding, just to be assembled locally and long durability.

We have been contacted by some NGO`s operating in BF and Mali and are planing to go there in late spring or early summer, to see what we can accive by introdicing gasifiers to BF and Mali.

Good luck.

Otto
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From: Francesco Vitali [francesco.vitali at ing.unibs.it]
> Sent: 2012-02-03 11:09:11 MET
> To: stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org
> Subject: [Stoves] advice for chimney wood stove for rural Burkina Faso
> 
> Dear all****
> 
> I am writing you for having a suggestion. ****
> 
> I am from an Italian research center on appropriate technologies for
> environmental management.
> 
> Me and my colleagues are working on a water&sanitation project in a rural
> area in Burkina Faso. The local NGO partner in the project asked us a
> suggestion on a model of improved wood-stove to disseminate on site. We
> have some experience in stove dissemination (Chad and Cameroun), but in
> this case the info requested by the local partner goes a bit beyond our
> knowledge.
> 
> 
> Currently we are not on site, so we have to give them an answer from remote.
> 
>  The main constraints are:****
> 
> 
>    - Time: the partner local  NGO wants to start the training for artisans
>    within two weeks
>    - budget available from the project is very low (about 1,500? for some
>    50 stoves)
>    - local reproduction: the stove has to be built by local artisans,
>    properly trained
>    - location: the stove has to be placed inside the kitchens (circular
>    huts in mud with thatched roofs, typical rural buildings)
>    - a chimney for smoke removal is required according to  preferences
>    expressed by local users
>    - local technical skills and tools are really basic (no electricity, no
>    welding, low availability of metal parts, mud/brick stoves are likely to be
>    the preferred option)
> 
> **
> If someone has any successful experience in similar contexts or a good
> advice, it will be very welcome! in particular we are looking for simple
> manuals or technical drawings to send to our local partner.
> 
> looking forward for your advice, thank you in advance
> best regards
> Luca Rondi, Francesco Vitali
> 
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