Population Health
November 15, 2016
Clean, efficient cookstove focuses on reducing pollution illness, and early death
Smoke from polluting open indoor cooking fires and cookstoves in developing countries are believed to cause millions of illnesses and premature deaths each year. Gathering fuel for these fires and cookstoves can also expose adults and children to further dangers.
To overcome these challenges, researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering have partnered with the non-profit BURN Design Lab to develop a much cleaner-burning and more efficient cookstove known as the “Kuniokoa.”
This innovative stove will be manufactured by local workers in Nairobi, Kenya, and its designers believe the Kuniokoa will successfully reduce harmful particulate pollution by as much as 67 percent.