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CookClean Improved Cook Stoves (ICS) – CookMate |
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CookClean Improved Cook Stoves (ICS) – CookMate
CookMate stoves are galvanised steel manufactured stoves
with embedded pot skirt to enhance fuel efficiency and to
reduce emission of harmful smoke. The stoves come in 3
sizes.
The superiority of the CookMate is characterised in its
features, as follows:
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Attractiveness to users
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less energy consumption
3.
heat regulation system
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light in weight
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little or no breakage
CCL field test revealed that CookMate saves about 50%
charcoal, equivalent to an average fuel saving of 3.5 EUR/month.
The pay back period is therefore less than 3 months.
Considering the average household income of 552.45 EUR p.a.,
or 46 EUR /month, 16% of disposable income is spent on
cooking fuel (reference) the CookMate thus saves around 8%
of disposable income, or approx 3 Euros per month.
The CCL Clean Water Project provides to each community a
specific technology and service for clean water supply
matched to local conditions and financing constraints.
Initial studies undertaken with field agencies have shown
that the optimum technologies
and services are in order of priority: repair, maintenance
and administration of hand-pumps drawing clean water from
boreholes (HP), locally made or assembled point-of-use
filters (local PF), imported PF, chemical purification, and
new borehole installation. The project focuses on the first
two, HP and local PF, while continuing to research market
acceptance and feasibility/effectiveness of other options.
Other Cooking
Technologies
The
project intends also to disseminate heat retention cookers
and small-scale biogas units, and develop smokeless
renewable fuels such as “green briquettes” made from crop
residue and produced in local Community Factories.
Other technologies
CookClean
will also develop renewable fuels, bio-charcoal and also
disseminate heat retention cookers and small-scale biogas
units.
CookClean will shall its knowledge in green fuel and help
to organise green briquette production through
Community Production Factories. The
smokeless renewable“ green briquettes” fuels shall be made from crop
residues in the respective communities for their own
requirements.
Methodology
The Project follows the Gold Standard methodology for
Improved Cook-Stoves and Kitchen Regimes, Version 2, which
provides a rigorous method for measurement of emission
reductions from clean water technologies and cook-stoves, as
well as the other technologies encompassed by the project. |
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WATER TECHNOLOGY
Ceramic Pot filter as point-of-use water purifiers
Diarrheal disease kills an estimated 1.8 million people each
year, the majority of whom are under five years of age. At
one time it was though that bringing water into villages
through wells and pipes would reduce the incidence of
diarrhea.
But even protected-spring, piped in water systems can
deliver highly contaminated water to household taps due to
improper design, maintenance or operation. Further, clean
water from a tap or well is easily contaminated en route to
consumption by dirty hands or unsafe water storage.
Treating water at the household level has been shown to be
more effective in preventing diarrhea than improving water
quality at the source (at the spring or at the well-head). A
growing number of studies suggest that point-of-use water
purification translates into reductions in diarrheal disease
at a level that is comparable to other water, sanitation,
health and hygiene interventions.
Because of this, ceramic water filters have become a
popular intervention for NGOs.
CookClean filters
come in one size and configuration with the following
components: a container for untreated water, a porous
ceramic filter that is treated with a colloidal silver
solution to prevent microbial growth within the filter, a
container for the clean, filtered water, and a spout. The
filters need to be cleaned periodically and last for 3 years
before clogging up.
A range of randomized studies indicate that ceramic filters
reduce diarrhea in treatment groups by 40% to 50% over
control groups that aren’t using the filters. This is
competitive with other interventions such as sanitation
programs and hand washing. Since the clean water is used
right out of the tap for drinking or cooking, there is less
of a chance of re-contamination than water brought from a
well in a dirty container, or contaminated by dirty hands
retrieving water from a bucket.
References:
Clasen T, Brown J, Collin M, Preventing diarrhea with
household ceramic water filters: Assessment of a pilot
project in Bolivia, 2006, International Journal of
environmental Health Research, 16(3): 231-239
Clasen T, Brown J, Collin M, Preventing diarrhea with
household ceramic water filters: Assessment of a pilot
project in Bolivia, 2006, International Journal of
environmental Health Research, 16(3): 231-239
The project will provide after-sales support for all
technologies distributed, ensuring proper use and hygiene
practices 3rd party monitoring and auditing will quantify
usage rates, health impacts, and effectiveness.
Repairs of broken down
of a typical Borehole Pumps in Rural Areas
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