2. Improved Cookstoves Benefits
• Large domestic fuel
savings
• Reduced health risk due
to indoor air pollution
• Prevents deforestation
and desertification
• Improves livelihoods
and gender equity
3. • Temperature retention
cooking bag
• Reduces cooking fuel
consumption by 30%
• Locally manufactured
• Improves quality of
life
4. “Eco” Product line
- Goal: one product in every Senegalese household
- Building market infrastructure for products
- Resource sharing between projects
- Domestic manufacturing and assembly
- Sound partnership and community level involvement
- Affordable price point to allow BoP communities to access all
product
5. What We need: EcoBloc
• The third leg to our “eco” line is a densified cooking fuel using
agricultural waste and forest residues.
• Multiple feed stocks available for process.
• Proven technology and obvious environmental benefits
• Can undercut charcoal prices by 40%
• Synchronize with existing product line for market access and
adaptability.
• Equity investment for first installation- 2500 ton/year facility.
Startup capital cost of project =$225,000
7. Potential for Typha in Senegal- Comparison to Popular Biomass
Energy Sources
• Over 140,000 tons of accessible low depth Typha
Feedstock Yield (t/ha) Maturity
in St. Louis region equals > a possible 70 MWe
Typha 14.7 90 days
• SVA plans a anaerobic digestion facility for 1MWe
Switchgrass 9.1-13.5 3 years
• For one MWe 2000 ha of sustainably harvested Willow 7-10 3 years
typha is required
Wheat Straw 1.8-2.4 90-100 days
• Harvest of ≥ 15 tons/ ha = 30,000 tons/annum Corn Stover 5.1 110-120 days
• High energy content of 16.3-17.8 MJ/kg Flax residue 1.2 100-110 days
(comparable to wood chips)
8. Implementing Partners
Netley-Libau Nutrient-Bioenergy Project- IISD and University of Manitoba
• 7 years of research specializing nutrient equilibrium and phosphorus removal though
typha in marshland ecosystems
• 4 years sustainably harvested Typha for bioenergy (gasification, bio-char and anaerobic
digestion)
Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute
• Expertise in bioenergy technology development
• Custom built typha harvest/ anaerobic digestion equipment