Successful Pilot of Prakti Air in Kolkata
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Kolkata, 15 February, 2022: Prakti Inc, announced successful completion of the pilot of Prakti Air product in Kolkata, 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 Calcutta Rescue (CR), an Indian registered charity working to improve the lives of the poorest people in and around Kolkata. CR's close relationships with urban slums and our experience with stove technology are a perfect match for Prakti Air field testing.
Prakti Air was tested over a period of 3 weeks with 6 families, in slums of Dakshineswar Metro Colony (DMC), near Kolkata, India. The objective was to answer two main questions to help with the design process: i) Are cooks confident about cooking with the Prakti Air? ii) Do cooks like using the Prakti Air, and why?
The field testing yielded favorable feedback. Every household felt the use of Prakti Air improved the stove performance. Prakti Air used less fuel for the whole meal and took less time. Every family felt there was less smoke, and families loved how much easier the pots were to clean (less soot build-up). Feedback from the users also resulted in fine-tuning the design of Prakti Air.
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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