The Arivi Non-Pressure paraffin stove, designed for BP, is the first stove in South Africa to pass SANS1906 standards. This ensures that the stove is safe, clean an more efficient than normal wick stoves. The safe, economical Arivi stove is a finalist in this year's Index Award under the home category, it is a great honor to be included with other great designs to improve life. Approximately 60 000 people are injured by paraffin use each year in South Africa, costing the country hundreds of millions of dollars and the Arivi stove is designed to address this problem.
The INDEX:Award is the biggest design award in the world, with a total award sum of 500,000 euros, but this grand figure financed by the state of Denmark isn't the only aspect distinguishing the INDEX:Award from most other design Awards. It is also the main driver of INDEX:'s mission to generate more 'Design to Improve Life' of higher quality all over the world. To find out more about this award click here
The Arivi Paraffin Stove is designed for low-income households as a safe, efficient and clean-burning answer to the raging shack fires that annually affect more than 60,000 South Africans and cost the country an estimated $10 billion each year.
What the designers, Frederick Kruger and Anastasios Calantzis, have created in the Arivi Paraffin Stove is designed for low-income households as a safe, efficient and clean-burning answer to the raging shack fires that annually affect more than 60,000 South Africans and cost the country an estimated $10 billion each year. They were engaged by BP to develop this stove."
The stove has 3 main benefits, the first is that the flame self extinguishes when knocked over, tilted, moved or refilled. The second is the increased efficiency, saving users 32% of their paraffin costs. Thirdly, the stove produces almost no particles or smoke and less than half the amount of carbon monoxide required by law, reducing indoor pollution which causes respiratory ailments.
The designers also wanted to look at a case in which something knocks over a candle, the shack catches on fire, and the stove is in the shack. There's a new regulation in South Africa that says the tanks are not allowed to leak any paraffin. So that's why they designed the fuel cap out of plastic. So during a fire, that plastic cap melts and pops off, allowing all the gas to escape before the tank explodes.
To distribute this stove and to be sure it gets into the townships of South Africa the designers are looking towards hiring entrepreneur types-'the guy with one little truck', rather than engaging the multi-nationals to get it off the ground.
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