View a new video about the mission of Burn Manufacturing.
[youtube]lbk0R7bL01g[/youtube] In a new video from Burn Manufacturing, Peter Scott explains its mission and future. You can watch the video here. BURN Manufacturing Co. (BMC) aims be the sole manufacturer of high quality biomass cookstoves in Kenya and East Africa. BMC has an exclusive licensing relationship with BURN Design Lab (BDL) – one of the world’s leading stove design firms. BDL’s JikoPoa stove design was recently selected by Inhabitat.com as one of "Four Cooking Stove Designs That Can Save the World."
The ‘Jiko Poa’: designed by BURN to be mass produced throughout East Africa
We are working with The Paradigm Project on a Rocket stove program for Kenya. The ‘Jiko Poa’ stove features an abrasion and thermal shock resistant ceramic liner surrounded by a precision cut, sheet metal cladding. The stove is currently being mass-produced and sold in Kenya and has been very well received, earning top marks from consumers in focus groups. Over 7,500 stoves were sold in May 2011 and Paradigm is on track to sell over 1 million stoves in the next 10 years. Kitchen Performance Tests, conducted by Berkeley Air Monitoring Group, show that both the local Jiko Poa (retail ...
Why Stoves?
Environmental An astounding 2.5 billion people around the world still use crude open fires fueled by coal, wood and charcoal to cook meals. • In the rural developing world, over 90% of total energy consumption is wood or other biomass fuel. • An estimated 25% of global co2 emissions are generated by the rural poor, more than all global transportation-related emissions combined. Social • 1.6 million women and children per year—more than 4,000 per day—die from upper respiratory disease related to indoor cooking smoke. • Women often walk 10+ miles and spend 30+ hours per ...
What We Do
Design: stove design in the field and at our lab on Vashon Island, Washington, USA Innovation: work with stove partners to refine and develop existing stove designs. We turn ‘concepts’ into consumer products that can be made locally. Production: develop tooling and manufacturing support for in-country mass production. Factory–in–a-Box: design, construct, and assemble stove factory modules that can be delivered to local stove producers around the world. Our tooling, equipment, and production processes – accompanied by local training - insure a standardized, high-quality stove product. Training: internship and training opportunities for junior and senior engineers Mentoring: international and domestic mentoring and ...
Where We Work
Kenya and East Africa BURN is working with The Paradigm Project to improve the design and production processes of the Jiko Poa. In April 2011, we installed a rocket ceramic dryer that utilizes waste heat from the ceramic kiln to dry the ceramic liner during the rainy season. Our design team is currently designing the foot, shelf, and embossing stamp for the second-generation Jiko Poa. During the summer of 2011, we will be modifying our new Haiti charcoal stove for use in Kenya. Over the next 10 years, our plan is to work with project implementers to support the local production ...
Peter Scott Featured in the New Yorker
In the small but fanatical world of stovemakers, Peter Scott is something of a celebrity. For the past seven years, under the auspices of the German aid agency GTZ, Scott has designed or built some four hundred thousand stoves in thirteen African countries. He has made them out of mud, brick, sheet metal, clay, ceramic, and discarded oil drums. He has made them in villages without electricity or liquid fuel, where meals are still cooked over open fires, and where smoke is the sixth leading cause of premature death. In the ...
The Lab
Research and Design BURN Design Lab researches, designs and produces stove prototypes at our research and design laboratory on Vashon Island, Washington (USA), assisted by our BURN network of machinists, fabricators, and artists. Members of our network donate time, materials and access to a wide spectrum of equipment, from Waterjet cutting machines and a 5 axis Vertical Machining Center to the standard assortment of metal fabricating tools such as lathes, shears, brakes, rollers, and welders . Rapid Prototyping Our seven-member engineering, design, and manufacturing team creates stove prototypes ‘on-demand’ for our stove projects. We build and test multiple iterations before shipping overseas for in-county ...
Berkeley Air Monitoring Group Tests Jiko Poa In Kenya
Kenya—Cookstove Study Results With support from WASHplus, resource partner Berkeley Air Monitoring Group conducted a study in Kenya of the locally manufactured Jiko Poa, a fuel-efficient rocket stove. Results of this study, conducted using a 24-hour “before and after” design, showed highly significant reductions in household air pollution, including a 37 percent reduction in carbon monoxide kitchen concentrations and a 51 percent reduction in PM2.5 (fine particulate matter) kitchen concentrations. read more...
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Inhabitat.com, a weblog devoted to innovations in technology, has featured BURN Design Lab in an article on Four Cooking Stove Designs That Can Save The World. Read more…
Welcome to BURN Design Lab
BURN Design Lab is a 501(c)(3) non profit corporation that creates customized biomass stove solutions to meet the cooking needs of the developing world. Working with implementing organizations, we develop sustainable stove dissemination systems that will appeal to cooks and have a profound impact on deforestation, women’s health and global warming.
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Our approach: BURN does not promote a single technology or design. Instead we begin by working with local cooks in each selected country to establish critical design parameters. We then develop a series of prototypes at our state-of-the-art stove prototyping facility that maximize combustion and heat transfer while maintaining key user criteria. These prototypes are then improved based on focus group feedback and field testing results.
After the initial design process, we then develop the required manufacturing equipment and processes to mass produce stoves in each selected country.
Please contact us if you are interested in mass producing clean burning cookstoves in your country.
To learn more about the rocket stove technology that underlies some of the innovative designs produced by BURN design lab, please visit www.rocketstove.org.
