Ann McLean - Community development specialist: household energy needs and use for cooking and heating; survey design and execution; consumer education in safe and economical use of coal stoves; monitoring and institutional framework construction and higher level stakeholder liaison.
Tony Woods - Team Leader, Energy Engineer: production of coal cakes; production of test stoves; performance trials including combustion tests and review of financial feasibility based on survey data collected; participation in monitoring and evaluation.
Peter Cole- Fuel technology specialist: development of coal cakes "recipes"; estimation of cooking and heating energy requirements; estimation of cake size and heat output; calculation of stove air quantities for effective combustion; assessment of stove flue gas emissions; review of test results.
Community Coal Utilisation Enterprise Development
Durgai Village, Zardaloo Valley, Pakistan
Client: Balochistan Environmental Protection Agency/New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Names of Senior Staff Involved and Functions:
Narrative Description of Project:
The project objective is to develop a community enterprise utilising locally produced coal dust to manufacture coal cakes for cooking and heating that will help both to generate income and save energy costs for income and environment-poor rural communities in coal bearing areas of Balochistan, Pakistan. Present fuel use patterns are also highly detrimental to the endangered mountain juniper and pistachio in this desert area of Balochistan.
Activities to date have included:
o Establishment of household energy requirements including cooking techniques.
o Trialling of various coal cake recipes.
o Design and construction of prototype stoves
o Performance testing and combustion testing.
o Household surveys before and after initial trials.
Activities to date have included:
o Establishment of household energy requirements including cooking techniques.
o Trialling of various coal cake recipes.
o Design and construction of prototype stoves
o Performance testing and combustion testing.
o Household surveys before and after initial trials.
Services Provided by Empower Consultants
• Project identification, formulation and preparation of funding application; project management
• Community mobilisation, environmental awareness workshop with villagers, consultation survey and monitoring throughout the project to ascertain energy demand levels, cooking methods and patterns of use; consumer education in safe and economical use of coal cakes.
• Using data on coal composition: analysis of heat output, air requirements, flue gas composition and from this analysis, the establishment of appropriate coal cake recipes, stove designs and testing procedures.
• Testing of prototype coal cakes and stoves including flue gas analysis.
• Training of community representatives in the manufacture of coal cakes.
• Liaison with Government of Pakistan stakeholder agencies and clients, stakeholder workshops, monitoring and report writing.
• Community mobilisation, environmental awareness workshop with villagers, consultation survey and monitoring throughout the project to ascertain energy demand levels, cooking methods and patterns of use; consumer education in safe and economical use of coal cakes.
• Using data on coal composition: analysis of heat output, air requirements, flue gas composition and from this analysis, the establishment of appropriate coal cake recipes, stove designs and testing procedures.
• Testing of prototype coal cakes and stoves including flue gas analysis.
• Training of community representatives in the manufacture of coal cakes.
• Liaison with Government of Pakistan stakeholder agencies and clients, stakeholder workshops, monitoring and report writing.
