Successful Pilot of Prakti Air in Himachal Pradesh

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Himachal Pradesh, 22 July, 2022: Prakti Inc, announced successful completion of the pilot of the Prakti Air product in Himachal Pradesh, India.

Prakti Air is a forced draft air stove and is designed to fit into many different kinds of stove bodies. It functions by blowing air into a fire, resulting in a dramatic decrease in emissions and an increase in fuel efficiency. 

Prakti partnered with The Kalgidhar Trust (Baru Sahib), an Indian registered non-profit charitable organization focussed on providing Quality Education to children, along with focus on Healthcare, Women Empowerment and Social Welfare.

Prakti Air was tested over a period of 4 weeks with 8 families, in Kakhli village, near Baru Sahib campus in Himachal Pradesh, India. The objective was to measure improvement in air quality, firepower, usability and cooking efficiency due to use of Prakti Air.

The field testing yielded positive feedback. 

• We saw dramatic improvement in Air Quality (AQI* decreased from >500 to <250), visibly less smoke/soot while cooking.

•  Wood Consumption was cut by 50%  (240 Kg per month per home wood is saved), resulting in 45 hours per month per home time saved in gathering wood. 

• Cooking with Prakti Air takes 67% less time, resulting in a cook saving up to 3 hours per day (or 45.6 days a year)

• Traditional Chulas produce slow, “lazy” flames while Prakti Air produce high-velocity, turbulent flames which lead to better combustion.

About Prakti Pvt. Ltd.

Prakti Pvt Ltd is a certified social enterprise company registered in Singapore, with social/environmental impact as the highest priority. Prakti Pvt. Ltd. is an association of DEW Labs, a tax-exempt, non-profit organization registered in the US (EIN: 45-5228729). 

Prakti’s mission is to save lives, empower women, alleviate poverty, and preserve the environment by developing and scaling the adoption of clean, efficient cookstoves that cooks want. Prakti’s teams are based out of the United States, India, and Bulgaria, and Prakti has sold stoves in over 14 countries! 

Prakti offers unique and original solutions to a problem that has plagued previous stove projects:  high performance, with no compromise on usability, significant improvement to usability, lower cost, and much ease in distribution/installation.

To get in touch with Prakti, write to info@praktidesign.org

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