[Stoves] Mongolian (and others) tour the SeTAR Centre at the University of Johannesburg

Crispin Pemberton-Pigott crispinpigott at gmail.com
Thu Dec 5 09:55:18 CST 2013


Dear Friends

 

There is a tour presently underway of the SeTAR Centre at the University of
Johannesburg hosting 6 visitors from Mongolia. They are all involved in the
clean air activities there, including some from the clean stove programme.
About 120,000 stoves have been sold (highly subsidised) in Ulaanbaatar which
is about 3/4 of the total used in gers (yurts) in the city. So far we have
had 4 seminars with a dozen speakers highlighting different aspects of
product development, regulation, performance testing, policy and marketing.

 

 



 

In the photo is (blue with polka dots) an Enerkey Megacities Project
researcher of biogas policy (which is in part housed at SeTAR), (white hat)
stove anthropologist Cecil Cook and (back right with glasses) Principle
Science Officer of the SeTAR Centre, Prof Harold Annegarn. 

 

The SeTAR Centre also has a bio-waste to vehicle fuel project, sustainable
human settlements programme for low cost housing, energy policy initiatives
with the Human Sciences Research Council advising the Department of Science
and Technology plus of course the stove development and testing programme.
SeTAR is a GACC regional stove testing centre. The tour, organised by the
World Bank in Asia, is part of the training activities of the regional
centre. Ulaanbaatar (UB) as a copy of the laboratory but not a stove design
and prototyping centre which is  here, housed in the Faculty of Art, Design
and Architecture building. The UB stove design centre will start in early
2014 and will include domestic cooking and space heating for gers, as well
as low pressure boilers for space heating in small homes with 'heating
walls' and small water circulations systems.

 

The photo above was taken in a low income informal urban settlement called
Alexandra which is in NE Johannesburg. Though not large in extent it has a
population of about 1 million. Stoves are usually primitive, wood-burning
and smoky.  Other fuels used are paraffin for cooking and lighting, candles
and some electricity which is available to some residents. I saw today a
methanol stove which is being touted as an alternative fuel but the local
NGO says the fuel and packaging is way too dangerous be to allow into the
wild. Interesting.

 

Several wood-selling shops were seen and there is considerable biomass
available for sale. Joe Baleka (light blue shirt) assisted ProBEC and the
then nascent SeTAR Centre to test market StoveTec products in this township
for which Aprovecho received an Ashden Award.

 

Regards

Crispin

 

Packing crate fuel at an informal food vendor's 'shop'

 



 

Cooking in the open under power transmission lines:

 



 

Note the 6-brick stoves! Of a different type.

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