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-EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The purpose of this proposal is Scalable Business Model for Biomass Briquettes Cooking Fuels and Mitigate Deforestation in Africa , so that we will demonstration and deployment of result with net-zero green-house-gas emissions.

PROBLEM: Solve in our society in Tanzania thus, opportunity: (1)Biomass briquettes as fuel for cooking, instead of using charcoal which is unsustainable, (2)Cook-stoves which burn the biomass briquettes, (3)Forests are destroyed causing environmental degradation, and (4)Cutting trees down they cause green-house-gas emission.

SOLUTION: These piles are coming from 40,000 bags/day of charcoal which are consumes every day in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Raw-materials are coming piles of charcoal dusts are wasted as by vendors who are selling charcoal in the kiosks.

These piles of char-dusts are wasted at about 5%‚Äì10% of charcoal. These piles are sifted and grind them to about 5 mm to form char-dusts.

Making biomass briquettes: (1)Mix: char-dust + water + binding agent, (2)Use oval-ram-press machine, press them together to form densified briquettes, (3)The briquettes are dried in hot sun to speed up the process for three days, and (4)Dried briquettes are ready to be sold to clients. 

USE OF FUND: Request the Keeling Curve Prize 2022 to fund $25,000 because it is intended to help the businesses shoulder some of that risk, allowing to break into these new markets. However application of funding will make difference to the project and take risks. 

COMPANY: Space Engineering Company Limited registered in 28-Dec-2012 in Tanzania. The core businesses is biomass briquettes & cook-stoves.

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TRADITIONALLY, women in Africa need to be the target group for any marketing and sensitization campaign that have the objective of enhancing the dissemination of biomass briquettes and improved cook-stoves. Because they generally make the choice as regards which fuel source used and, therefore, constitute an important part of influencing the briquettes and cook-stoves value chain. 


Contribution to community in Tanzania. Project will have multiple-benefits: Social, economic and environmental. Women‚ and youths empowerment in terms of economical as well as health benefits depending on emission reductions.

SOCIAL BENEFITS: Increased resilience through reduction in deaths and rates of non-communicable diseases, and improved health, especially of women and children 


ECONOMIC BENEFITS: Selling of agricultural wastes and agricultural residue. Operation and maintenance of the briquettes factory & cook-stoves factory will create employment and reduce poverty. Women and youth will particularly benefit by collecting and selling biomass

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

Closely linked with environmental benefits, social co-benefits will be seen primarily in health aspects. The health impact of households-air-pollution produced by traditional cook-stoves is particularly acute for women and children, who are the most exposed groups to air-pollution. The has estimated that 45,000 women and children die each year in Tanzania as a direct result of exposure to household-air-pollution, while millions more suffer from respiratory diseases.

The PRIMARY BARRIER to adoption of biomass briquettes & improved cook-stoves is the lack of awareness of households of the benefits of improved stoves (demand creation) and the availability of the right models of stove that have the acceptability of the rural and urban households. 

The KCP 2022 grant will be used to address both these barriers by supporting demand creation and supply chain development activities for adoption of biomass briquettes & cook-stoves. 
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