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KOKO Networks in East Africa has created a scalable answer to the soiled fuels drawback. The clear ethanol specialist’s distribution mannequin makes use of bioethanol as an ultra-clean, low cost and secure various to the extra conventional cooking fuels of charcoal and paraffin. And its options incorporate Titan’s NSF-Authorized 800 sequence flowmeters.

Designed and constructed by KOKO Networks (Nairobi), the KOKO Level merchandising machine dispenses ethanol and is a part of a sublime answer to a widespread drawback in African cities: Getting low cost, secure gas into houses to make use of for cooking. Throughout Africa, the place electrical energy connections are patchy and mains gasoline non-existent, cooking gas has been dominated by charcoal and paraffin, each of which emit fumes and soot, contributing to 1000’s of untimely deaths yearly. Produced from corn or sugar cane, ethanol is way safer however will be exhausting to package deal and transport.

KOKO Networks has put in over 2,000 KOKO Level merchandising machines so far in nook shops throughout Kenya, together with Mombasa and Nairobi. Drawn by the alure of this secure, clear cooking gas, clients dispense it into reusable KOKO gas bottles and, as soon as at residence, they join the bottles to KOKO-designed twin-hob stoves, which have an airlock to restrict fumes and forestall spillage.

Neil Hannay, Senior R&D Engineer at Titan Enterprises commented: “We had been approached by KOKO Networks to work with them on this life altering growth for African households. KOKO Networks required a extremely dependable and cheap circulate meter able to exactly allotting batches of ethanol cooking gas. Because of our joint growth, on the coronary heart of every KOKO Level ethanol merchandising machine is a precision Pelton wheel turbine flowmeter that rotates freely on strong sapphire bearings, combining supplies and know-how to make sure a long-life product with dependable operation all through.”

Titan’s NSF-Authorized 800 sequence turbine circulate meters are ideally suited to functions requiring each meals hygiene and precision circulate measurement.