Current Projects

1. The Project – ‘Jua Kali’ / Informal Manufacture Sector Collaboration

The project that forms the main activity of ‘madegood.net’, initially, is a collaboration among Middlesex University (MDX – Product Design and Engineering), Kenyatta University (KU – Energy Department)  and Terra Nuova East Africa (TN – Jua Kali Programme), developing an existing KU/TN partnership.
It focuses on fuel briquette manufacture within the informal sector in Nairobi, development of design and engineering skills and artisan partnerships for KU and MDX students, training of unemployed local youth and promotion and dissemination to the wider populace in areas of appropriate technology, sustainability and entrepreneurship. The project addresses deforestation and domestic energy use, using appropriate technology, in Kenya.

Activities
The project explores four technical and two communication areas:
1. Technical Analysis of briquette geometry, material composition and emissions. Methods for measuring and mixing of required ingredients.
2. Optimisation of briquette compression presses.
3. Optimisation of shredding and pulping machinery, for preparation of composite ingredients.
4. Optimisation of consumer stoves.
5. Development of a open-source web-based information community.
6. Development of innovative strategies to promote briquettes.

Existing machines and previous wood-carving work with Jua Kali and IED Rome:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30542236@N04/sets/72157621932372324/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30542236@N04/sets/72157608019524592/

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