[Stoves] Maendeleo/Upesi stove: dimensions?

[Ingelore Kahrens]

Thanks Crispin. Hugh Allen´s book was actually what I had been trying to 
find, but failed. It is good to have many people who assist in a search.

Ingelore


Am 27.06.2016 um 06:58 schrieb Crispin Pemberton-Pigott:
>
> Dear Friends
>
> While Ingelore has circulated a document on the production of the 
> Kenyan Jiko, I think you should also be aware that this model was 
> replaced years later by the /Improved/ Kenyan Jiko which is available 
> in another USAID funded document (written for ATI) in 1991.
>
> Hugh's book is here 
> <https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Kenya_Ceramic_Jiko.html?id=WpZKAAAAYAAJ&redir_esc=y>.
>
> It is available for download from here 
> <http://www.pssurvival.com/PS/Stoves/Cooking/Kenya_Ceramic_Jiko_A_Manual_For_Stovemakers_1991.pdf>. 
> It is too large to attach.
>
> It includes drawings of all the equipment developed to make consistent 
> products and to fire them properly. He said they got the loss on 
> firing down to 3%.
>
> The main improvement made by Hugh was not the design, it was the 
> production system and the method of getting a clay mix that would 
> survive being heated and cooled many times.  It was this work which 
> was used to inform the approach taken to the development of the Maputo 
> Ceramic Stove. The MCS was able to eliminate the metal body which in 
> some countries is a major problem to make either because of a lack of 
> skill (Maputo) or lack of materials (Chad etc).
>
> Regards
> Crispin
>
>
>
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