was featured in a national news broadcast on Globo TV in 2008 (which holds Brazil's largest audience) teaching solar cooking to people in the interior of his home state of Sergipe, northeast Brazil, hired by the state government to introduce and show how to make and use cardboard box ovens. Paulo heads the Cozinha Escola Experimental Solar, an experimental technology laboratory in Universidade Tiradentes in Aracaju, Sergipe. He has produced a DVD showing how to make and use solar box ovens, financed by the United Nations and intended for large distribution.

News and recent developments

• August 2009 The CEES (Cozinha Escola Experimental Solar) was inaugurated for the purpose of working in poor communities to guarantee nutrition and provide education about basic food handling concerns, as well as the construction and use of solar ovens, and for scientific experiments with renewable energy to study the current efficiency of the CEES. The coordinator in chief of the project, Dr. Prof. Paulo Mário Machado Araújo is currently seeking partners that can ensure the continuation of the project.

• July 2009: Jose Albano reports that a government-sponsored solar box cooker workshop conducted by Paulo Araujo was featured on a Globo TV national news broadcast.

See also

• Laboratório de Energia e Materiais
• Cozinha Escola Experimental Solar

• July 2006: Solar Water Disinfection in Northeast Brazil: Kinetics of the Microbiological Process and the Study for the Development of a Pilot Plant - Paulo Araujo

Contact

Paulo Mário M. Araújo
Labotario de Energia e Materiais - UFS
Núcleo de Engenharia Mecânica
Universidade Federal de Sergipe
Av. Marechal Rondon S/N - Jd. Rosa Elze - São Cristovão Sergipe - Brasil - 49100-000
Aracaju, Sergipe
Brazil

Tel: +55 79 2105-6314

Email: paulomario@ufs.br