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Last edited: 14 April 2015

Engineers Without Borders - Sweden is being represented by Stefan Karnebäck, an engineer and former educator at KTH in Stockholm, Sweden. He has developed a water pasteurization project in Cameroon and in a very small scale in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and also worked to introduce of the SODIS method of solar water disinfection. They have partnered with Leeiyan Systems in setting up a small-scale development and information center, DevICe, in the northwest region of Cameroon.

They have an interest in the development of standards for the testing of the performance of solar cookers. The ASAE S580 from ASABE will be used at DevICe in Cameroon.

Recent news and developments

Leéiyen teaches the use of solar box cookers and the SODIS method of water pasteurization in Cameroon, November 2014.

• February 2015: A Development and Information Center, DevICe, is established in Tatum, Kumbo, north of Bamenda in Cameroon. After two weeks training the staff will continue totest different types of solar ovens, provide information about water hygiene and help with simple water quality analysis. They will also look into solar cooking. The center is run by voluntary work and a small budget. However using a professional pyranometer from Kipp & Zonen. The project is run together with Engineers Without Borders - Sweden, sponsored by Inpsecta, Technical consulting company in Sweden.

• November 2014: Vise Gilbert Chin, CEO/President of Leéiyen, reports they have already taught more than 100 people to use solar cookers, including parabolic solar cookers, and the Heaven's Flame and CooKit solar box cookers.

• February 2013: Engineers Without Borders - Sweden did an evaluation of a solar cooking project that the group had implemented in a refugee camp in Tunisia in 2011. They found that there had been no significant uptake of the technology and that the refugees mostly cooked with LPG. More information... - (English version)

External links

• http://ingenjorerutangranser.se (English version)

Contact

Engineers Without Borders - Sweden
Stefan Karnebäck
Tunagatan 7B
Uppsala 75337
Sweden

Tel.: +46 06638004

Email: stefan.ewb@telia.com
Web: http://ingenjorerutangranser.se (English version)