MIT Solve

Solution Overview & Team Lead Details

Our Organization

Innovative Ghar Nepal

What is the name of your solution?

Cutup Cookstoves Biomass Carbon

Provide a one-line summary of your solution.

Design and modification of traditional cookstoves to cutup carbon generated from biomass household

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What specific problem are you solving?

Reduction of Carbon produced from biomass cookstove in remote area of world.

What is your solution?

In our approach, we will first implement an air filtration system, which will then be improved and used in biomass-fuelled cookstoves. The introduction of air purification to traditional cooking methods aids in the removal of a large amount of carbon from the atmosphere.

Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?

The poor and middle-class people who live in rural areas are the target demographic for this problem. The reduction of carbon emissions/implementation of the project protects people from various airborne diseases as well as protects/prevents disasters induced by global warming gases.

How are you and your team well-positioned to deliver this solution?

We believe we are correct because global warming causes climate change, which has an impact on our globe. Furthermore, each individual is responsible for saving the earth. Our team developed a variety of public awareness and technological development programs in both urban and rural areas. Also, people in distant areas have limited awareness of modern societies, and a review indicated that biomass cookstoves, which are extensively utilized in isolated areas, generate a large quantity of carbon. Following the development of the solution strategy in this solve problem, we provide training to the remote community to aid in the rapid implementation of technology.

Which dimension of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Support local economies that protect high-carbon ecosystems from development, including peatlands, mangroves, and forests.

Where our solution team is headquartered or located:

Lalitpur, Nepal

Our solution's stage of development:

Growth

How many people does your solution currently serve?

10

Why are you applying to Solve?

Cooks (especially women in rural areas) inhale these dangerous gases, as well as other global warming emissions produced by burning biomass, when making food. These gasses have a silent effect on mothers and their unborn children if they are pregnant. Because isolated people do not have access to contemporary technology, whether basic or complex, this condition is more typical in remote and rural areas of any country. According to the World Health Organization, around 3.8 million people die each year from illnesses linked to household air pollution (HAP) caused by cooking over stoves indoors with these solid fuels and kerosene. Indoor smoke levels can be 100 times higher than the acceptable fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) threshold, and women and young children are disproportionately affected since they spend more time around the stove during cooking periods. Inhaling soot is also responsible for 45 percent of pneumonia deaths in children under the age of five, according to the World Health Organization, and women exposed to high levels of indoor smoke are more than twice as likely to develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as women who use cleaner fuels and technologies.

In which of the following areas do you most need partners or support?

Technology (e.g. software or hardware, web development/design, data analysis, etc.)

Who is the Team Lead for your solution?

Saddam Husain Dhobi, Sakar Niraula

More About Your Solution

What makes your solution innovative?

This method has the potential to reduce the amount of carbon generated by biomass household cookstoves by millions of tons at a low cost. Because the poor cannot buy modern technology, the solution provides fresh significance, and the solution strategy in this difficulty is cost effective. This is due to the fact that anybody can make their own utilizing locally available resources. This system may operate as a catalyst for other sectors that generate large amounts of air pollution, such as brick factories, sugar factories, and so on, because these industries exhaust large amounts of smoke, carbon, and other global warming gases straight into the atmosphere. We can lessen both current and future climate change issues by using this strategy in large-scale companies.

What are your impact goals for the next year and the next five years, and how will you achieve them?

Following the implementation and final demonstration, the organization prioritizes local Nepalese isolated areas. After that, with the help of national and international environmental protection organizations and agencies, the system is designed for industrial use.

How are you measuring your progress toward your impact goals?

The progress is monitored by collecting data linked to solving technology and its impact on people's lives using a questioner. Furthermore, the concentrations of greenhouse gases and air pollution in the distant area where the solution is being implemented were measured using scientific technology.

What is your theory of change?

In our approach, we construct traditional biomass cookstoves such that air pollution, smoke, and other aerial pollutants created by burning biomass are captured and settled down by filtration and cooling. The pollutants produced by biomass are inhaled by the design system, which solidifies the pollutant so that it can be used for many purposes in our daily lives. We believe the proposed solution to have an impact because carbon reduction is a worldwide issue that will require a significant amount of work.

Describe the core technology that powers your solution.

Our method captures the pollution released into the atmosphere by biomass during kitchen cooking. The pollutant that is directly exposed to the atmosphere is filtered and settled down by our design technology, which filters and settles down all pollutant generated from kitchen cookstove biomass. Our technique works in two stages: first, it filters the heavy particles, and then it settles the fine particles that were not filtered in the first step.

The fine particle settle down phenomenon is repeated two times, the first from a natural chilling system and the second from a natural liquid system that dissolves the tiny particle in it. As a result, our method reduces/cuts up the carbon generated by kitchen cookstove biomass.

Which of the following categories best describes your solution?

A new application of an existing technology

Please select the technologies currently used in your solution:

Ancestral Technology & Practices
Robotics and Drones

If your solution has a website or an app, provide the links here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrN4Hdf0LvM

Which of the UN Sustainable Development Goals does your solution address?

3. Good Health and Well-being
13. Climate Action

In which countries do you currently operate?

Nepal

In which countries will you be operating within the next year?

India

Your Team

Your Business Model & Funding