2008 - ongoing
Berkeley Air is partnering with the Shell Foundation to assess the real-word impact of its Breathing Space Programme (BSP), which is promoting a range of improved biomass stoves through its implementing partner Envirofit.
BSP aims to achieve a material, verifiable, long-term reduction in the incidence of indoor air pollution at the global level by deploying approaches which are market oriented and commercially viable. This mandate aims to deliver multiple benefits to poor families in developing countries.
Berkeley Air, with assistance from Sri Ramachandra University, is in its third year of evaluating the effect of the improved stoves on air quality in village homes. Two generations of stove models have been monitored to date with data collected on fine particles, carbon monoxide and fuel use. This year, in addition to a third round of IAP monitoring on the newest stove models, a series of controlled cooking tests were performed. These tests measured time, fuel use, stove emissions and IAP levels associated with the traditional stove and both current Envirofit models.
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