In
January 2011 STT launched, with the encouragement of the Regional Administrative
Secretary (the most senior civil servant in the Dodoma Region), an additional programme; the Institutional Energy
Programme (IEP).
The aim of the IEP is to provide:
~
an institutional sized
Rocket stove to primary schools and orphanages in the Dodoma urban area
~ a tree seedling or plant seedling nursery and, where there is enough room, a trial plot where children can grow horticultural or field crops which are inoculated with mychorrhiza.
This
work will be supported by training relevant staff and children in how to
establish and maintain the nurseries and plots.
As
the Dodoma urban area incorporates 91 state primary schools and 14 orphanages STT
has set itself a considerable task. The initial planning for the pilot school
and pilot orphanage is now underway. This will be followed by an audit of the
schools and orphanages and the development of a strategic plan for completing
the IEP.
Boil tests have been completed to examine the benefits of using these industrial stoves.
The Boil Test
To thoroughly
cook most foods, the temperature of a cooking device has to be above 80 degrees
centigrade. The boil test utilised helps measure how long a stove can maintain heat. It also shows how
quickly the stove is able to heat up and how quickly it cools down.
1) The stove testing times contains 2 phases: one hour to fully heat the stove and one hour when no fuel is added to the stove.
2)
To start the boil test, a fire is made that can reach the boiling point quickly.
Afterwards, fuel is evenly distributed for the remainder of the first hour.
3)
The amount of water boiled should always be the same (2 litres for family
stoves, 15 litres
for community stoves).
4)
The fuel is distributed into two separate piles and weighed before the boil
test. For our boil test, we used 7.5kg of fuel per stove.
5)
The evaporated water is measured in the event that a "Percentage of Heat
Utilized" figure needs to be calculated.
However, the objective of the BTF is not to evaporate water, but to heat up water quickly and to keep it above 80°C over an extended period of time in relation to a fixed amount of water and a fixed amount of fuel. [i]
