About Us

Clean-Fuel Stoves for a Sustainable Future

CLEANCOOK Sweden AB (CLEANCOOK) produces ethanol and methanol (clean-fuel) stoves for markets where people traditionally cook with firewood, charcoal, and kerosene stoves. CLEANCOOK owns tooling/equipment for manufacturing and product patents. Production is outsourced to a partner company in Kenya. So far, 110.000 cleancook stoves have been provided, which correspond to 31 million accident-free user-days, mainly in Africa. The CLEANCOOK stove technology is based on a pressureless canister concept which has been used in Europe and the USA by Dometic Group, for more than 35 years.

About 2,5 billion people worldwide use solid biomass for their cooking, such as charcoal and firewood. However, cooking on solid biomass not only dirties kitchens with soot, it also kills. WHO reports that more than 2.5 million people die prematurely from illnesses related to air pollution caused by emissions from inefficient stoves and solid biomass-based cooking. The CLEANCOOK concept leads to cleaner ambient air in cities, courtyards, and homes, eliminating smoke and improving health.

Deforestation and emissions from inefficient fuel combustion, such as soot and greenhouse gases, also have major negative impacts on the environment. Calculations show that 2% of global CO2e emissions and about 50% of black carbon (soot) emissions is generated from cooking and with solid biomass and kerosene in the developing world.

Collecting firewood and lighting up charcoal and wood stoves are time-consuming tasks. Additionally, women and young girls collect firewood frequently risk molestation and sexual assault. Cooking with alcohol fuels is fast, safe, affordable and eliminates the need for collection of firewood. By using clean fuels families have more time for schooling, working/entrepreneurial activities, and other household tasks.

Cooking with alcohols such as ethanol and methanol in pressureless stoves is much safer than any other open flame stove use. Many fires and kitchen accidents today originate from handling stoves, pots and fuels (especially LPG and kerosene). To date, CLEANCOOK has not had a single accident.

Ethanol is affordably, locally produced from crops and their byproducts, like molasses and other typically wasted resources not needed/used in the food chain. Farming and ethanol distillation and distribution generates employment and income in local communities, as well as increasing food production. Alcohol fuels are available as a global commodity and are shipped economically and efficiently around the world, no different than petroleum fuels. This means alcohol fuel usually can be distributed using existing infrastructure.

Our approach

More than 2.5 billion people worldwide use solid biomass for their cooking, such as charcoal and firewood.

IEA reports 2.5 billion people lack access to clean cooking fuels, relying instead on solid biomass, kerosene and coal as their primary cooking fuel. Household air pollution, mostly from cooking smoke, is linked to 2.5 million premature deaths per year.

Cleaner Cooking, Healthier Lives:

The Impact of
CLEANCOOK Stoves

WHO reports that 2.5 million people die prematurely from illnesses related to air pollution caused by emissions from inefficient stoves and solid biomass-based cooking. The CLEANCOOK concept leads to cleaner ambient air in cities, courtyards, and homes, eliminating smoke and improving health.

Clean Fuels

Clean-Fuel Stoves for the Empowerment of Women

Cooking with alcohols such as ethanol and methanol in pressureless stoves is much safer than any other open flame stove use.

Ethanol

Local Production, Global Impact

Ethanol is the most common alcohol fuel for cookstoves. It’s a renewable biofuel produced via the fermentation of starch crops, such as corn wheat, sugar cane and cellulosic feed stocks. Due to its ease of transformation into alcohol, corn and sugar cane is the dominant feedstock for ethanol production. Other partners, including customers and suppliers, are listed below:

Project Gaia Inc

Oxyma

QAP Legal

Burn Manufacturing

Ambershore

Moto Safi

Partners

Our Partners

CLEANCOOK works together with Project Gaia, a US based non-profit NGO committed to increasing the use of ethanol and methanol fuel in the developing world.