<div dir="ltr">Thank Ingalore and Crispin, thanks for sharing these. <div><br></div><div>I have seen both these documents in use by stove makers in Ghana and in Tanzania, they seem to still be quite helpful for people starting out making clay lined charcoal jikos. Based on both books we were recently commissioned to make a short youtube video of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnM8jhMUvWo">How to Make a Kenya Ceramic Jiko </a> (english version) for existing stove manufacturers in Mogadishu due to security issues with on site training. </div><div><br></div><div>>From the fuel supply side of it, I personally am now quite interested in hopefully doing something similar for the improved charcoal making kilns we are working on, we are unable to supply the full demand for them in Kenya and we would be very happy to have more artisans replicating them. We so far have only found two people who have copied and sell them since we started marketing them 4 years ago..this is a bit slow for my liking, given the context of my markets, I find that if a new design is not copied within 2 years I get quite worried about the validity of it :) But all in all, the idea of people who are able to, growing and making their own charcoal at home has been progressing along very well so far, we are coming up to selling our 1,000th kiln soon and from the feedback I have had, only about 10% of kiln owners still buy any charcoal at all and the rest have completely stopped buying charcoal! (Mostly for home use BBQs, some for SME bakeries)</div><div><br></div><div>We have recently been looking into recovering the smoky by-products of the charcoal making process, there seems to be quite an unexplored demand for wood vinegar from organic farmers and also liquid smoke from Chef's - <a href="http://kenyacharcoal.blogspot.co.ke/2016/05/how-to-make-your-own-wood-vinegar-with.html">http://kenyacharcoal.blogspot.co.ke/2016/05/how-to-make-your-own-wood-vinegar-with.html</a> - by chance does anyone know of any other people doing this in East or Southern Africa who we could compare notes with? </div><div><br></div><div>All the best, </div><div><br></div><div>Teddy </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Cookswell Jikos</b><br><a href="http://www.cookswell.co.ke" target="_blank">www.cookswell.co.ke</a></div><div><a href="http://www.facebook.com/CookswellJikos" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/CookswellJikos</a></div><div><a href="http://www.kenyacharcoal.blogspot.com" target="_blank">www.kenyacharcoal.blogspot.com</a></div><div>Mobile: +254 700 380 009 <br></div><div>Mobile: +254 700 905 913</div><div>P.O. Box 1433, Nairobi 00606, Kenya</div><div><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-mFnK50B4oS8/UUrgJle8z9I/AAAAAAAAB_o/OUjLd7wrKPg/s133/Cookswell+Logo.PNG" width="71" height="96"><br></div><div><font color="#008000" face="Tms Rmn">Save trees - think twice before printing</font><font size="1" color="#008000" face="Tms Rmn">.</font><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Ingelore Kahrens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tutaonana@onlinehome.de" target="_blank">tutaonana@onlinehome.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>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.</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p>Ingelore<br>
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<div>Am 27.06.2016 um 06:58 schrieb Crispin
Pemberton-Pigott:<br>
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<p>Dear Friends<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p>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 <i>Improved</i>
Kenyan Jiko which is available in another USAID funded
document (written for ATI) in 1991. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">Hugh's book is
<a href="https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Kenya_Ceramic_Jiko.html?id=WpZKAAAAYAAJ&redir_esc=y" target="_blank">here</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">It is
available for download from <a href="http://www.pssurvival.com/PS/Stoves/Cooking/Kenya_Ceramic_Jiko_A_Manual_For_Stovemakers_1991.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.
It is too large to attach.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">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%.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">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).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">Regards<br>
Crispin<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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