Biomass Briquettes & Stoves in Tanzania

Problem we are trying solve: (1) Biomass briquettes as fuel for cooking, (2) Improved cook-stoves which use biomass, mitigation of green-house-effect. Tanzania has about 15 million tons/year of agricultural waste and 1.9 million tons/year of forest residues which could be easily converted to briquettes.

Tanzania will be provide alternative energy source to end-users of towns & city to substitute commonly used fuel wood, which is less efficient, more polluting and negatively contributing to the environment.

Utilize unwanted biomass resources, agricultural wastes and forest residues and convert into briquettes substitute fuel-wood, which is major cause of deforestation and environment degradation.  

Planned production capacity 7,500 tons/year of briquettes will benefit 50,000 households in Dar es Salaam to reduce fuel costs and less pollution.

Generate self-employment, collectors of raw materials, transporters, dealers and entrepreneurs who distribute biomass briquettes & cook-stoves to end users creating 140 full-time jobs and indirectly support 250 jobs.

Biomass wood-fuels is still the only available energy source for 2.7 billion people worldwide (World Bank Report, 2015).  Nearly 80% of 55 million population in the country of Tanzania household energy consumption.  Low efficiency cook-stoves causing respiratory disease leading 1.6 million deaths each year worldwide. 

African households spend $1.9 billion per year of biomass wood-fuel, and will spend $12 billion per year on charcoal. Charcoal producing countries in Africa rank Tanzania the 4th from the top.

Problem we are trying solve: (1)Biomass briquettes as fuel for cooking, (2)Manufacture cook-stoves which use briquettes, (3)Mitigation of green-house-effect in atmosphere.

Tanzania has about 15 million tons/year of agricultural waste and 1.9 million tons/year of forest residues which could be easily converted to briquettes for cooking.

Currently, we supply briquettes 9 tons/day to households about 13,860 everyday, sell 5,250 cook-stoves as well.

Project estimates: (1)Produce briquettes 25 tons/day, (2)We supply briquettes above 50,000 families/day. (3)Manufacture 16,000 cook-stoves. Purchase machines from China to make briquettes 2 – 4 tons/hour, therefore,  produce briquettes 7,500 tons/year.

Generate self-employment, collectors of raw materials, transporters, dealers and entrepreneurs who distribute briquettes & cook-stoves. Creating 140 full-time jobs and 250 are part-time employees.

Poverty causes people in Sub-Sahara Africa (950 million people) who need biomass for cooking. Example, capital city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (5 million people) who nearly 80% use charcoal for cooking.

PROCESS TO MAKING BIOMASS BRIQUETTES: Char is obtained from carbonization retort kilns & charcoal dust left over as waste when the vendors are selling the charcoal.  Process to make briquettes: (i) We mix the char dust + agricultural wastes + binder, (ii) We press together to form briquettes, (iii) Then they are going to the dryer with hot-air and continuously coming out to the other end of dryer. Dried and cooled briquettes are ready to be sold to clients.

Production is intermittent because we lack dryer which will continuously dry the briquettes. Current factories of briquettes we have in Dar es Salaam, therefore, we supply briquettes is intermittently.

We face the challenge to dry manually during the rainy season which extends for about 6 months/year that is why we need the dryer which will enable us to dry the briquettes for 12 months/year. The business has worked very well for us when they buy by cash or credit the cook-stoves which they able to pay-back in 6 months.  

Clients are 5 million people of the capital city of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania who depend on charcoal for cooking.

Out of this charcoal, 5% - 10% are wasted as char dust by vendors of charcoal. About 100 tons/day are wasted daily. Within one year, about 36,500 tons/year are wasted as char dust by vendors who sell charcoal.

These piles of char dust we are collect in Dar-es-Salaam which we recycle them to make briquettes as fuel for cooking.

We sell briquettes $0.20/kg and every family use $0.6 per/day. They buy our briquettes. We sell to clients cook-stove $8 per/stove which can last for three to five years before they buy new one.

Urban households need average 2 stoves and purchase average of 45 kg/month of briquettes. Therefore, cost approximately $18 /month to buy biomass briquettes of cooking fuel.

This business is very lucrative and is huge in Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania because over 650,000 tons/year of charcoal are sold annually.

Africa spend $12 billion per year on charcoal market for household cooking fuel with its non-polluting biomass briquettes for cooking technology that undercuts the cost of using charcoal by as much as 30% - 40%.

Establishment of new sites in Tanzania for the production of biomass briquettes and manufacturing cook-stoves for cooking.

Recent study (Camco, 2011) found that districts in Tanzania generating significant proportion of charcoal include districts of Kilwa, Kibaha and Mkuranga which cumulatively account for 40% Tanzania. Foreseeable future, wood‐fuel and charcoal will continue to be the major source of energy in Africa.

►Toxic emission reduction by 70% - 80%

►Cooking time reduced by 30% - 40%

►Fuel consumption reduction by 40% - 50% leading to reduced pressure on forest

Project will transfer and scale-up proven technology that has worked successfully in China.

We will purchase machines from China to make biomass briquettes. Company which supply the machines are: Zhengzhou Sinolion Machinery Company Ltd in China. Machines are shown in Tables 1&2        

Table 1: Briquettes Machines

S/N    Name                        Total ($)

1. Storage bin                           1,535

2. Combination crusher          4,540

3. Belt conveyor                          792

4. Binder mixer                         1,230

5. Double shaft mixer                6,774

6. Belt conveyor                        1,056

7. Briquette machine                 9,615

8. Belt conveyor                        1,056

9. Briquettes mesh belt dryer  47,025

10. Air fan                                     2,135

11. Belt conveyor                           924

       TOTAL PRICE ($)      = 76,682

Table 2: Briquettes Machines – Manufacturing Cook-stoves

S/N                       Name                                       Total ($)

1. Buy four retort kilns to make char for briquettes    9,664

2. Manufacture cook-stoves (each $5 per stoves)      21,000

3. Engineer employee make briquettes                          5,182

4. Engineer employee manufacture cook-stoves          6,725

                                          TOTAL PRICE ($)      =   42,571

Project implemented by fund assistance Solver Partnership. We request fund = $91,683. We, Space Engineering Limited will contribute cash = $31,241, and our partner company (Renewable Energy Access Promotion Tanzania) will contribute cash = $23,358. Peter Mtui (Team Leader) will contribute cash = $12,971. We contribute in-kind for the factory we have in Kibaha, Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania) where we currently make biomass briquettes & manufacturing cook-stoves. Total budget = $159,253.

Social: Create opportunities for increased productivity through biomass briquettes and cook-stoves for cooking.

Economic: Selling agricultural wastes and forest residuals.   Create employment and reduce poverty. Women and youth will particularly benefit.

Environmental: Sound and efficient disposal of residues green-house potentially reduce environmental degradation.

Core technology is to disseminate technologies for biomass briquettes & cook-stoves for cooking, i.e. converting waste-to-energy.

The capital city of Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania) alone is described to consume about 40,000 bags (average weight of 50 kg/bag) of charcoal per day.  Recent study (Tatedo, 2005) estimated that in Dar es Salaam alone require 1,600 tons of charcoal daily – equivalent to 40,000 bags of 50 kg each. It would require 80 micro-factories of 25 tons/day capacity operating to fully and satisfy this daily demand in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Therefore, the business is huge and growing. The project will be able to establish 2 factory in Dar es Salaam, to start with.

Retort kilns are used in the project because their efficiency is high 55% compared to traditional earth-mound which is 15%. The retort kilns are used to makes the charcoal dust in 24 hours compare to fourteen days for traditional kilns. Each retort kiln will produce char at the rate of 600 kg/day, therefore we expect to have several retort kilns.

Open fires and primitive stoves are inefficient at converting energy into heat for cooking; the amount of biomass cooking fuel required annually can reach up to 2 tons/year per family.

In the last 5 years, with the advent of climate change as a major international concern, it is apparent that the 730 million tons of biomass fuel burned annually in developing countries as household fuel contribute to the buildup.

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Therefore, problem we are trying solve: (1) Biomass briquettes as fuel for cooking, (2) Improved cook-stoves which use biomass, mitigation of green-house-effect. Tanzania has about 15 million tons/year of agricultural waste and 1.9 million tons/year of forest residues which could be easily converted to briquettes to be used as cooking fuel.

• Energy to produce to produce charcoal is high i.e. charcoal to wood-fuel ratio is 1:4. We used a more efficient way which is a well-known technology – biomass briquettes.
• Use improved cook-stoves which: (i) Toxic emission reduction by 70% - 80%, (ii) Fuel consumption reduction by 40% - 50% leading to reduced pressure on forest, (iii) Cooking time reduced by 30% - 40%.
• Using agricultural waste and forest residues which mitigation of green-house-effect by lowering CO2 in the atmosphere.

(Gold Standard for the Global Goals, August 2017) Methodological choices/approaches for GHG Emission Reductions achieved by the project under the application of AMS-II.G., version 09. Following equation applies as per AMS-II.G. par. 17:

Improved cook-stoves results thermal energy saving 0.0106454 GWh based on data for cook-stoves. Considering thermal threshold 180 GWh thermal. This would allow a distribution of 16,900 cook-stoves.

Cook-stoves 16,900 indicate that project issuing emission reductions approximately equal to 10,000 tCO2eq.

in the last 5 years, with the advent of climate change as a major international concern, it is apparent that the 730 million tons of biomass fuel burned annually in developing countries as household fuel contribute to the buildup of green-house-effect.

THEORY OF CHANGE

Half the world cooks using biomass-fueled cook-stoves. Biomass stoves represent an intersection of opportunities to address health, environment, poverty, and gender concerns on a wide scale. However, theories of change implicitly assume the behavior change that translates improved cook-stove performance into desired outcomes and impacts.

People have been using inefficient cook-stoves because clean and efficient cook-stoves are not available in peri-urban and rural areas. By providing clean cook-stoves to replace the old inefficient three-stone burning, the aim is to reduce indoor pollution.

ACTIVITY

►Consumers switching from the traditionally three-stone which is low-efficient, instead, high burning biomass briquettes as fuel for cooking.

►These cook-stoves are regarded by many to be high-efficient, because of the amount of firewood they require to operate, as well as their relatively low cooking times.

►Given their important intra-household health externalities and the public goods nature of their environmental benefits, there are likely strong rationales for communities to use of biomass briquettes & improved cook-stoves.

OUTCOME

►Women are primarily (almost exclusively) the cooks in both urban and rural areas of Tanzania. Most commonly cooked items such as ugali (maize meal), rice, vegetable and meat.

►Improved cook-stoves, instead of traditional biomass cook-stoves can ensure efficiency in the use of traditional fuels (World Energy, 2005). Improved cook-stove reduces smoke emission and health hazards especially to the cook. Benefits of improved stove include reduced cooking time, less smoke, saving wood-fuel, portability for portable stoves especially during rainy season.

OUTPUT

►Burning of biomass briquettes in improved cook-stoves prevents indoor air pollution and other health hazards thereby contributing to MDGs 4 and 5 (reduce child mortality and improve maternal health through reduction of indoor air/smoke related disease like acute respiratory infection affecting mainly newly born and young children and their mothers who are exposed to smoke during cooking and food preparation.

►Goal is been achieved of clean cooking and improved cook-stoves are to promote the enterprise-driven, large-scale adoption of clean cooking solutions throughout, with the goal to reduce poverty, health-related risks, and adverse environmental impacts associated with traditional cooking technologies and practices.

Currently, we have clients approximately 13,860 whom we supply biomass briquettes fuel for cooking at 9 tons/day. Similarly, we have sold about 5,250 cook-stoves by cash. Sometimes they buy by credit and they are able to pay-back within six month.

ONE YEAR PLAN: Number of clients we will be serving in one year we will grow our business to serve clients 30,000.  Similarly, we have sold about 12,000 cook-stoves

FIVE YEAR PLAN: Number of clients we will be serving in five year we will grow our business to serve clients 90,000.  Similarly, we have sold about 26,000 cook-stoves

We will hire more people as needs arise to make briquettes and cook-stoves. We have long term agreement to lease vehicles which we use to carry and supply and sell briquettes to our clients.

MARKETING BIOMASS BRIQUETTES & COOK-STOVES: Smart marketing, innovative packaging and in general good entrepreneurship are further requirements for success. When introducing biomass briquettes in the local market substantial marketing efforts including promotional and publicity campaigns are needed. It is important therefore, that the advantages of long-burn duration (compared with charcoal) are promoted by briquette producers. Women need to be the target group for any marketing and sensitization campaign that have the objective of enhancing the dissemination of biomass briquettes & cook-stoves

In order to achieve our goal details assumptions has worked very well for us so far as our business is to-date. We hope to get the grant to enable us funding to scale-up technology.

The NEXT FIVE YEARS, we will achieve the following:

• Number of clients we will be serving in FIVE YEAR we will grow our business to serve clients 90,000.  Similarly, we have sold about 26,000 cook-stoves
• We built TWO factories in Dar-es-Salaam which will have capacity 25 tons/day of biomass briquettes. Based on data, 80 factories with the capacity 25 tons/day could barely satisfy in the capital city of Dar-es-Salaam where they need over 650,000 tons/year of charcoal  
• We will purchase factory from abroad in China which is shown (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYgQPRSK3lc&feature=youtu.be) will be able to produce 2 – 4 tons/hour of biomass briquettes.

In addition to the mitigation impact, the widespread uptake of cook-stoves will have the potential to increase resilience of the most vulnerable populations in Bangladesh by increasing their adaptive capacity and reducing vulnerability at the local scale. The project will have multiple environmental, economic, and women’s empowerment co-benefits as well as health benefits depending on emission reductions.

The direct beneficiaries will be the members of households using biomass briquettes and cook-stoves as a result of the project, the expected total number of whom is expected to be 90,000 people who live in the capital city of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania.

Tanzania has about 15 million tons/year of agricultural waste and 1.9 million tons/year of forest residues which could be easily converted to briquettes

Todate, our company is supplying 9 tons/day of biomass briquettes to households (clients) about 13,860 every day. Currently, we have sold about 6,250 cook-stoves.

BARRIERS TO ACCOMPLISH OUR GOALS IN NEXT FIVE YEARS ARE:

TECHNICAL: Lack of consumers’ ability or willingness to pay premiums on more efficient briquettes and improved cook-stoves which have being developed by our company. Absence of wide-spread awareness campaigns.is a key reason some consumers are not willing to change from charcoal to briquettes which are 40%-50% cheaper.

FINANCIAL: One of the main challenges cited in working with last-mile entrepreneurs is a lack of business skills, specifically financial management. Several interviewees said this lack of financial management skills was a deal breaker in their exploring this sales channel, or that they had dropped this channel after the entrepreneurs they were working with showed poor financial management capacity.

CULTURAL: Because women are the primary users of household energy products, such as cook-stoves, they also have the potential to catalyze the stove market as micro-entrepreneurs. Women entrepreneurs, however, require additional support in training, mentorship, and access to resources to succeed, because they often have less access to finance and more demands on their time.

LEGAL: As highlighted, the legal, policy and regulatory framework for biomass energy is not only rooted in the past, when there was little urbanisation and little commercial biomass energy. Plans and policies of all the ministries noted above, none of them have an explicit biomass energy policy. Herewith, one of the most significant gaps in developing a coherent biomass energy strategy.

Primary barriers adoption of biomass briquettes and cook-stoves in Tanzania are:

QUESTION1: Lack of consumers’ ability or willingness to pay premiums on more efficient cook-stoves - which have been / are being developed - due to absence of wide-spread awareness campaigns

ANSWER1: Sensitizing and awareness raising and behavior change campaign to popularize among households in the communities as a climate mitigation strategy and health benefits. Clean cooking can improve women`s health as they switch from traditional biomass stove to improve cleaner cook stove.

QUESTION2:  The availability of the right models of the briquettes and improved cook-stoves that are acceptable to the rural households and cater to the unique cooking needs and preferences of peri-urban population.

ANSWER2:  The cost-revenue shortfall preventing the development of commercial enterprises to promote clean cooking solutions

QUESTION3: The project will focus capacity building on empowerment of the local communities, particularly women for greater participation. Policy and market barriers access to cleaner cook stove and other clean low carbon energy solution.  

ANSWER3:  Established stakeholder platform to help convene the clean cooking sector that has a target to reach millions households who live in poverty in Tanzania.

MONITORING AND EVALUATION:  This is an important component of the program to meet the overall project objectives.  Review will be carried out on a periodic basis to address any barriers - technical, managerial, or related to implementation issues. Space Engineering will provide management and trained staff to operate the plants and all technical support matters.

Key staff management of our company

• Peter Mtui, (PhD) is the Managing Director
• Philip Sambera is the Engineering Director.
• Gideon Mandara is consultant of our company

We have working in renewable energy in Tanzania for many years. Our core business is biomass briquettes and cook-stoves.

Our company’s strength is "waste-to-energy" biomass technologies for sustainable development – green energy

We are first company in Tanzania whom we sell: (1) biomass briquettes as fuel for cooking, and (2) we manufacture ceramics cook-stoves and (3). We mitigate green-house-effects by lowering CO2 in atmosphere.

Todate, we have 65 employees: 35 full-time and 30 part-time employees. They make biomass briquettes and manufacturing cook-stoves.

Generate self-employment, collectors of raw materials to make briquettes, transporters, dealers and entrepreneurs who distribute biomass briquettes & cook-stoves to end users.

The employees, they supply biomass briquettes 9 tons/day. Clients are households & business = 13,860 which we supply the briquettes every day. We have sold 5,250 cook-stoves either by cash or credit and they able to pay-back in six months. The improved cook-stoves can last for 3 to 5 years before they buy new ones.

The management and staff of Space Engineering Company have wide ranging experience in the bio-energy business.  Key management company staff member are discussed.

PETER MTUI (PhD): Team leader and is Managing Director for Space Engineering Company Limited in Dar es Salaam. He is a Mechanical Engineering who holds a Ph.D. from university of British Columbia (Canada) with specialization in the utilization of alternative fuels. He has work experience over 28 years ranging from academics to industry. Later he joined Ricardo Technical Center in Chicago (USA) as a Senior Software Engineer to develop commercial software.  He later worked as Senior Scientist for Pioneer Process Technology Group (Ontario, Canada).

He is now working in Tanzania and has extensive experience, strong leadership in the design, development and dissemination of biomass briquettes and cook-stoves in Tanzania. Briquettes from agriculture wastes and forest residuals have been key element in addressing energy needs and deforestation problem in Tanzania.

PHILIP SAMBERA: Director of Engineering with 19 year experience in equipment design and commissioning. He was instrumental in the implementation biomass briquettes and improved cook-stoves. His role in this project is to oversee plant installation, commissioning and successful operation of the plant for biomass briquettes and improved cook-stove manufacturing.

GIDEON MANDARA: Consultant for the project and chemical engineer with 30 years of experience. He has extensive skills in wide area including: Planning, management and including: environment, community-based, appropriate technology; community-managed; women’s economic, social empowerment; finance & enterprise development, strategic planning, management, monitoring & evaluation of integrated area-based projects.

The local non-government organization (NGO) which we partner with and is called Renewable Energy Access Promotion (REAP). The NGO is mandated with: REAP is mandated to conduct activities and disseminates technologies that have direct relevance to the Tanzanian community and which will directly impact on the development of SMEs and general public including: (1)Development of technologies in renewable energy, (2)Promotion and commercialization of technologies,(3)Supervision of projects aiming at product innovation

Renewable Energy Access Promotion mission is to foster a competitive, efficient and environmentally sustainable production and service sector in Tanzania by improving skills of these people and knowledge through technology development, technology and entrepreneurship and enhanced safety. Relevant areas of expertise for REAP include: renewable energy technologies.

Therefore, (1)Space Engineering Company Limited we have worked together with (2)Renewable Energy Access Promotion for 8 years in area of biomass briquettes and cook-stoves in Tanzania – green energy.

Todate, managed to make biomass briquettes and cook-stoves in our factory we have in Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania). We supply 9 tons/day of biomass briquettes to households (clients) about 13,860 every day. Currently, we sold about 5,250 cook-stoves. The clients they able to pay by cash or credit the cook-stoves which they able to pay-back in 6 months.  

We sell briquettes $ 0.20/kg and every family use $0.6 per/day. They buy our briquettes. We sell to clients cook-stove $8 per/stove which can lasts for three to five years before they buy new one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...BUSINESS MODEL: (1)We make biomass briquettes as fuel for cooking, and (2)manufacture improved cook-stoves. We sold these items to our clients for cooking.

We sell biomass briquettes at $0.20/kg and every family use $0.6 per day for buying biomass briquettes as fuel for cooking.  We sell our to clients improved cook-stove at $5-$10 per stove which can last for 3 to 5 years before they buy new one.

Urban households are expected to need purchase an average of 45 kg biomass briquettes per month. Therefore, cost approximately $18 /month to buy biomass briquettes of cooking fuel.

Clients, they are bought cook-stoves in cash or by credit and they are able to pay-off-all in 6 months. This business is very lucrative and is huge in Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania because over 650,000 tons/year of charcoal are sold every year.

Capital city of Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania) alone is described to consume about 40,000 bags (average weight of 50 kg/bag) of charcoal per/day. Estimated that in Dar-es-Salaam alone require 1,600 tons of charcoal daily – equivalent to 40,000 bags of 50 kg each.

We target the people of capital city of Dar-es-Salaam. There 5 million people who nearly 80% use charcoal as fuel for cooking. Dar-es-Salaam alone consumes over 650,000 tons/year of charcoal which leads deforestation.

Example, total annual revenue generated by the charcoal sector for Dar es Salaam alone is estimated at $350 million and generates employment income several hundred thousand people employees who operate 160,000 charcoal traditional kilns each year

There are 5 million people in Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania) who need fuel for cooking. About 80% of these people use charcoal for cooking. Further, Tanzania has about 15 million tons/year of agricultural waste and 1.9 million tons/year of forest residues which could be easily converted to briquettes, thereby combating climate change.

Political Economy of Tanzania’s Charcoal Sector (World Bank, 2010) indicates that: (1)Total annual charcoal business volume in Dar es Salaam alone is estimated to be worth $350 million, (2)Government of Tanzania estimated revenue loss of $100 million annually due to unregulated business of charcoal production and utilization.

For these reasons Space Engineering Company Limited: (1)Make biomass briquettes as fuel for cooking, (2)Manufacture improved cook-stoves, (3)Mitigating green-house-effect by contributing lowering of CO2.

There financial path for this technology because the market is huge in Tanzania. Todate, we supply biomass briquettes 9 tons/day to households (clients) about 13,860 everyday, we have sold 5,250 cook-stoves.

We have 65 employees: 35 full-time and 30 part-time employees. Generate self-employment, collectors of raw materials, transporters, dealers and entrepreneurs who distribute biomass briquettes & cook-stoves to end users.

Because, we have got factory in Kibaha near Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania where we make biomass briquettes and cook-stoves. We expect to expand our factory to reach more clientele. In fact we are the first company in Tanzania whom we this business.

Charcoal market for household cooking fuel with its non-polluting biomass briquettes for cooking technology that undercuts the cost of using charcoal by as much as 30% - 40%.

Space Engineering Limited is the only company in Tanzania that are producing these briquettes and cook-stoves on a large-scale.

Women empowerment: Capitalizing on women’s role as clean energy entrepreneurs and leaders in national and local efforts lead to the development of effective, culturally-appropriate, and sustainable solutions.

The primary barriers to adoption biomass briquettes as fuel for cooking and cook-stoves are:

• Lack of consumers’ ability or willingness to pay premiums on more efficient cook-stoves which have been are being developed due to absence of wide-spread awareness campaigns.
• Availability of the right models of the cook-stoves that are acceptable to the peri-urban and urban area in Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania) households and cater to the unique preferences cooking needs.
• Cost-revenue shortfall preventing the development of commercial enterprises to promote clean cooking solutions
• Creating consumer awareness about the benefits of cook-stoves through above and below the line marketing.
• Supporting capacity development for the supply chain (Partner Organizations) for distribution of cook-stoves
• Selecting the right stove models that have passed both quality assurance test on performance and durability as well as consumer preference and acceptability tests. Households are expected to purchase the cook-stoves at full price.
• Lack of co-ordination among related government agencies and industry.

Long-term and sustainability efforts: The substantial barriers to accessing cleaner and more efficient cooking energy requires a sustained investment to transform the market.

Space Engineering Company Limited was registered in Tanzania 2012 and our partner a local non-government organization; Renewable Energy Access Promotion established in 2009.

Space Engineering is mandated to conduct activities and disseminates technologies that have direct relevance to the Tanzanian community: (1)Development of technologies, (2)Promotion and commercialization technologies, (3)Supervision of projects aiming at product innovation.

Renewable Energy Access Promotion (REAP) is mission is to foster competitive, efficient and environmentally sustainable production and service sector in Tanzania by improving skills of these people and knowledge through technology development and entrepreneurship. Relevant areas of expertise for REAP include: renewable energy technologies facilities.

Our goal of this green briquettes projects is therefore to promote and facilitate strategic investing in appropriate technology for producing green charcoal sustainably from locally available biomass resources, thereby enabling a significant shift from the long-entrenched practice of producing charcoal by cutting down trees. As well, we manufacture improved cook-stoves

So far, we have one partner. YES WE WOULD LIKE TO PARTNERS WITH ANY ORGANIZATION which has similar mission like ours. This is true because more than 80% of Tanzania (55 million people) they require solid-biomass as energy to cook.

Biomass wood-fuels is still the only available energy source for 2.7 billion people worldwide (World Bank Report, 2015).  Nearly 80% of 55 million population in the country of Tanzania household energy consumption.  Low efficiency cook-stoves causing respiratory disease leading 1.6 million deaths each year worldwide. 

In Africa, households spend $1.9 billion per year of biomass wood-fuel, and will spend $12 billion per year on charcoal. Charcoal producing countries in Africa rank Tanzania the 4th from the top. Charcoal are made by cutting trees down, contributing negatively to the environment.

Tanzania has about 15 million tons/year of agricultural waste (maize cobs & rice husk) and 1.9 million tons/year of forest residues (saw dust & branch of wood) which could be easily converted to briquettes. These biomass are plenty which could satisfy energy needs in Tanzania.

Tanzania will be provide alternative energy source to end-users of towns & city to substitute commonly used fuel-wood, which is less efficient, more polluting and negatively contributing to the environment. Therefore, we make biomass briquettes and improved cook-stoves which are more efficient for cooking.

WE QUALIFY IN THE ANDAN PRICE

In Tanzania, we have thousands of refugees from the neighbouring countries - Republic of Congo and Burundi.

About 355,000 refugees from Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo live in western Tanzania (Prosper Kwigize reports, 2018), where they are barred from working or setting foot outside their makeshift camps. These refugees they cause a lot of environmental degradation because of falling tress down for the sole purpose of charcoal.  

We will supply the biomass briquettes and improved cook-stoves to the refugee camp so that they can get the cooking fuel. These biomass briquettes will reduce the pressure on forests.

Use improved cook-stoves which: (i) Toxic emission reduction by 70% - 80%, (ii) Fuel consumption reduction by 40% - 50% leading to reduced pressure on forest, (iii) Cooking time reduced by 30% - 40%. Reducing time for cooking is by ceramic cook-stoves which we could sell to the refugee camps. 

WE QUALIFY THIS PRICE IN OUR INNOVATION.

Women need to be the target group for any marketing and sensitization campaign that have the objective of enhancing the dissemination of briquettes and cook-stoves. Therefore, they generally make choice regards which fuel source value chain.

Providing households with access clean cook-stoves is vital importance in the low-emission cook-stoves serve as an important transitional solution—with benefits for women`s and children`s health and livelihoods.

OBJECTIVES:

• Inclusion of women entrepreneurship & empowerment in the value chain since are target group for any marketing and sensitization campaign that have objective of dissemination
• We expect to hire men 40%, women 30% and youth 30% employees. The employees will be proportional to house-holds which they use briquettes as fuel for cooking.
• Selling of agricultural wastes and agricultural residue. Operation and maintenance of the briquettes factory and cook-stoves factory will create employment and reduce poverty.
• Generate employment, collectors of raw materials, transporters, dealers and entrepreneurs who distribute briquettes & cook-stoves. Women and youth will particularly benefit by collecting and selling biomass. Agricultural wastes are disposed-off by burning them in open fields, sometimes causing wild fires.

WE QUALIFY THIS PRICE IN OUR INNOVATION.

Women need to be the target group for any marketing and sensitization campaign that have the objective of enhancing the dissemination of briquettes and cook-stoves. Therefore, they generally make choice regards which fuel source value chain.

Providing households with access clean cook-stoves is vital importance in the low-emission cook-stoves serve as an important transitional solution—with benefits for women`s and children`s health and livelihoods.

OBJECTIVES:

• Inclusion of women entrepreneurship & empowerment in the value chain since are target group for any marketing and sensitization campaign that have objective of dissemination.
• We expect to hire men 40%, women 30% and youth 30% employees. The employees will be proportional to house-holds which they use briquettes as fuel for cooking.
• Selling of agricultural wastes and agricultural residue. Operation and maintenance of the briquettes factory and cook-stoves factory will create employment and reduce poverty.
• Generate employment, collectors of raw materials, transporters, dealers and entrepreneurs who distribute briquettes & cook-stoves. Women and youth will particularly benefit by collecting and selling biomass. Agricultural wastes are disposed-off by burning them in open fields, sometimes causing wild fires.