Our research team extends far beyond the confines of D-Lab. Here are a few of our amazing partners and collaborators:
SOCIAL ENTERPRISES
The Fuel & Stoves Group has close working and research relationships with biomass fuel enterprises in East and West Africa, the Carribean, and Central America.
- ARTI-Energy (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) - Producer of Mkaa Mkombozi charcoal briquettes and distributors of improved cookstoves and solar lanterns and home systems
- Appropriate Energy Saving Technologies (Soroti Uganda) - Producer of Makaa charcoal briquettes and improved cookstoves
- Carbon Roots International (Cap-Haïtien, Haiti) - Producer of Chabon Vet charcoal briquettes made from sugarcane bagasse
- Green BioEnergy (Kampala, Uganda) - Producer of Briketi charcoal briquettes and improved charcoal cookstoves
- Nakabale Integrated Development Group (Bugiri, Uganda) - Producer of Namayemba charcoal briquettes and improved cookstoves
- Renewable Energy Thailand (Nong Khai, Thailand) - Producer of green charcoal and micro-charcoal gasification technology
- Soluciones Comunitarias (Guatemala) - Producer of improved plancha and rocket cookstoves and distributor of solar lanterns and water filters
- Takachar (Kenya) - Producer of green charcoal briquettes
NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
Our nongovernmental organization partners include large international programs as well as small grassroots programs.
- The Charcoal Project - an advocasy group for sustainable biomass fuel alternatives
- Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves - the international convenor for most efforts in the clean cooking sector worldwide
- ISO Technical Committee on Clean Cooking Solutions - a body of international experts with the goal of creating standards for evaluating cooking products
- TEWDI Uganda - non-profit org. which trains and educates Ugandan women and youth to create opportunities to support themselves
ACADEMIC COLLABORATORS
The Fuel & Stove Group is fortunate to have a lot of great academic collaborators, including:
- Kroll Lab, MIT Civil & Environmental Engineering
- MIT Engineers Without Borders
- Reactive Gas Dynamics Lab, MIT Mechanical Engineering
- Mike Tarkanian, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- University of Dar es Salaam Dept. of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
- Makerere University Centre for Research in Energy and Energy Conservation (CREEC) and Resilient Africa Network (RAN)
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST) Technology Consultancy Centre
OTHER RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS
The D-Lab Fuel & Stoves Group collaborates with a number of other reputable institutions in the fuel, stove and waste world, including:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Cookstove Lab
- Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology (Eawag)