[Stoves] SNV Newsletter - report on the downdraft fish smoker

Paul Anderson psanders at ilstu.edu
Fri Dec 16 07:59:36 CST 2016 

James,

Thank you for the message and for your service.

With you SNV contract ending, can you please tell us of your plans, or 
of the options, or of your "wish list."  For example, do you have 
preferences for the location of your next work?

Maybe Santa Claus is reading the Stoves Listserv and could use a few 
suggestions relating to your future.  After that, the negotiations can 
be off-list.

Paul

Doc  /  Dr TLUD  /  Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
Email:  psanders at ilstu.edu
Skype:   paultlud    Phone: +1-309-452-7072
Website:  www.drtlud.com

On 12/16/2016 3:08 AM, James Robinson wrote:
> Dear Paul, Harold and list,
>
> Thanks for the interest. The fish smoking stoves are part of a larger 
> USAID/Ghana funded project, led by the University of Rhode Island, 
> aimed at rebuilding targeted marine fish stocks that have seen major 
> declines in landings over the last decade, particularly the small 
> pelagic fisheries that are important for food security and are the 
> mainstay of the small-scale fishing sector. SNV's work is focused on 
> the post-harvest value chain (including stoves and financing), 
> institutional capacity building and anti-child labour initiatives.
>
> At the moment we have around 30 stoves undergoing testing in the field 
> and the SNV team will then feed this back into a second round of 
> design work next year for which we hope Crispin will again be 
> involved. In time more reports will be published by the project so 
> please keep an eye out for these, including an economic impact 
> assessment of a stove/loan product. For future engagement on this work 
> please note that I have now finished my contract with SNV and from 
> January onwards there will be some new staff joining the team.
>
> More broadly, it would be great if some of the established global 
> stove design/manufacturing groups could develop a combustion 
> system/insert for these types of productive use and institutional 
> stoves that could be fitted in to the traditional clay/brick surround 
> as the market in Ghana alone for fish smoking, beer brewing, rice 
> par-boiling, shea processing etc must be over half a million stoves. 
> However, the design and materials would have to be significantly more 
> robust than current household cookstoves as they tend to be used all 
> day and large pieces of firewood used as fuel. With a similar food 
> culture across the West African region this market then becomes 
> substantial, especially if you include Nigeria, and with the 1980's 
> Chorkor fish smoking stove having found it's way around to East Africa 
> the potential for further scaling is there.
>
> Regards
> James Robinson
>
>
> On 15 December 2016 at 16:50, Paul Anderson <psanders at ilstu.edu 
> <mailto:psanders at ilstu.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Crispin,
>
>     I appreciate the details that you provide at your website.   Every
>     piece and step.   And the .pdf number
>>     61 DD1 v0.5 Complete, no doors.pdf
>>     <http://www.newdawnengineering.com/website/library/Stoves/fish_dryer/Ghana_downdraft%20v0.5/61%20DD1%20v0.5%20Complete,%20no%20doors.pdf>
>>
>     gives a view.   But it still leaves me with questions about how it
>     is working.   What air flows, etc?
>
>     Perhaps James can provide more info.
>
>     And you mention TWO designs.   What info about the second one?  
>     And any price info to build either or both?   And economic impact
>     and labor savings etc would also be useful.   For these or any
>     other good innovations to move forward, we need the "functional"
>     info, please.   Maybe there are some reports (SNV documents?) that
>     could be made available.
>
>     Paul
>
>     Doc  /  Dr TLUD  /  Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
>     Email:psanders at ilstu.edu <mailto:psanders at ilstu.edu>
>     Skype:   paultlud    Phone:+1-309-452-7072 <tel:+1%20309-452-7072>
>     Website:www.drtlud.com <http://www.drtlud.com>
>
>     On 12/15/2016 8:54 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:
>>     Dear Paul
>>
>>     I put the photos on my website at the time it was being tested.
>>
>>     http://www.newdawnengineering.com/website/library/Stoves/fish_dryer/
>>     <http://www.newdawnengineering.com/website/library/Stoves/fish_dryer/>
>>
>>     There are two: the blue-sky new idea that produced the low PAH
>>     and the retrofit for existing structures. The idea is some would
>>     not like to spend much without first planning for it.
>>
>>     James says they received a visit from Gina M recently to check
>>     progress. SNV did indeed 'take the chance' on the product
>>     development of 'something completely different'.
>>
>>     This is another example of a disruptive stove technology. It
>>     completely changes what is possible in terms of food production
>>     quality for the small producers, of which I hear there are
>>     120,000 along the South Coast.
>>
>>     James, as you will recall, was in charge of the SeTAR Centre for
>>     several years.
>>
>>     Regards
>>     Crispin
>>
>>     Stovers.
>>
>>     Good to see practical usage of stove technology (broad sense of
>>     "stove").
>>
>>     Where can we read or see about the technology and structure of
>>     the fish dryer?
>>
>>     Congratulations to James Robinson for the results of his
>>     efforts.   And others?   Crispin?
>>
>>     SNV website posted the article, and it clearly credits the US EPA
>>     for funding the demonstration FACILITY.
>>>     visited the USAID <https://www.usaid.gov/>-funded fish smoker
>>>     demonstration facility of the Central and Western Fishmonge
>>     SNV funded the research, evidently.
>>
>>     Congratulations to everyone.
>>
>>     Paul
>>
>>     Doc  /  Dr TLUD  /  Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
>>     Email:psanders at ilstu.edu <mailto:psanders at ilstu.edu>
>>     Skype:   paultlud    Phone:+1-309-452-7072 <tel:+1%20309-452-7072>
>>     Website:www.drtlud.com <http://www.drtlud.com>
>>     On 12/15/2016 5:41 AM, Harold Annegarn wrote:
>>>     Dear Crispin, James, Samer, Nikhil
>>>
>>>     Crispin, thanks for the update on the Ghanaian fish smoking
>>>     project, and congratulations to James and Crispin for your work
>>>     on this porject.
>>>
>>>     However, according to the SNV Newsletter, the project was funded
>>>     by US EPA? I was under the impression that it was a Dutch funded
>>>     project?
>>>
>>>     The news item further gives the impression that it was
>>>     Administrator Gina McCarthy alone and unaided who saved the
>>>     unwashed poor of Ghana from the unspeakable scourge of death,
>>>     deforestation and death by smoke inhalation. Even Stalin's
>>>     propagandists might have blushed with shame at this blatant
>>>     misattribution of contribution from funders (SNV?) and the
>>>     technical staff who made the technical innovation (One of whom
>>>     appears in the picture but is not mentioned in favour of the
>>>     visiting US dignitary.
>>>
>>>     Jislaaik!!!@#$@#
>>>
>>>     Harold
>>>
>>>
>>>     Harold Annegarn
>>>     Energy Institute
>>>     Cape Peninsula University of Technology
>>>     Mobile +27 (0)83 628 4210 <tel:+27%2083%20628%204210>        
>>>       Office +27
>>>     hannegarn at gmail.com <mailto:hannegarn at outlook.com>
>>>     hannegarn at outlook.com <mailto:hannegarn at outlook.com>
>>>
>>>     On 15 December 2016 at 12:10, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott
>>>     <crispinpigott at outlook.com <mailto:crispinpigott at outlook.com>>
>>>     wrote:
>>>
>>>         Dear Friends
>>>
>>>         19 December is World Toilet Day, don't forget to thank yours.
>>>
>>>         Also please see the article (photo of James Robinson) with
>>>         the dried fish. This article is on the innovative downdraft
>>>         fish smoker and the retrofit adaption of its air mixing
>>>         chamber ‎to existing smokers.
>>>
>>>         Tests of the fish by the food quality lab in Accra showed a
>>>         reduction of 99% in PAH(4) was possible without changing the
>>>         fuel or construction materials. This design is widely
>>>         applicable throughout the world.
>>>
>>>         Regards
>>>         Crispin
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