[Stoves] Biochar and Uganda and Char-Making stoves

hnsamba at inventionplusgroup.com hnsamba at inventionplusgroup.com
Fri May 20 18:40:51 CDT 2016


Dear Prof Paul,

Many thanks for your email. I am indeed passionate about retrofitting  
TEGs to already existing improved cooking stoves to increase their  
functions especially for the end user to be able to watch a  
television, able to treat water (UV treatment), able to listen to  
radios, provide LED lighting as well as charge mobile phones alongside  
biochar production.

I assume this will make great contributions to the developing world,  
considering the fact that about 1.4 billion people have no access to  
power and since 2.8billion people are expected to be relying on  
traditional biomass for cooking by 2030.

I assume the above could be achieved if upto 5Wh of power can be  
achieved from a conventional cooking stove retrofitted with TEG.

I am proposed to integrating the technology with the fan which could  
use could use less than a watt to supply more air to the stove and  
improve on the stove combustion efficiency, to further reduce on the  
dangers arising from indoor pollution.


I would preferably be keen to succeed with the above initially with   
individual households, where of course custom designs can later be  
scaled up based on need and demand. From a research perceptive, It  
would be great to compare the performance of TEG retrofitted stoves  
with and without fans especially in terms of fuel consumption rate,  
duration of operation, emission levels, difference in costs, etc.

All said, I believe this is something we  can achieve as a team.

PS: I have built up a centre in Uganda, with fabrication  and welding  
facility, having capacity to fabricate the preferred stove designs,  
upto any required volume.

My contributions towards this have so far been on personal  
levels,financed from personal savings and with no external funding but  
I am sure this is something that can be supported, considering the  
contributions it offers, to the World.

Hussein





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