CONSOLFOOD2025

The tentative programme includes the following six lectures.

• Solar drying of local fruits and vegetables, Ménar Meebed
• Solar Box Cookers: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Impact of Design Components, Kurt Neubek
• Father Himalaya and the quest for high temperatures by solar means, Jean-Jacques Serra
• Solar cooking at Le Présage, a quest for a delicious future, Pierre-André Aubert
• Solar Cooking and Psychopathology, Dave Oxford and Stewart Maclachlan
• Necessary But Not Sufficient: Considering current and yet untried means of cooker distribution and promoting adoption, Luther Krueger

More Information please download Flyer (pdf)

The startup SOLARBAKERY has its origins in the many years of experience of the founders on the African continent. Simon Zimmermann set up the first container bakery in Kinshasa, the capitol of the Congo (pop. 14 million), which generated $128,000 in revenue in its first year of business.

The high demand for quality baked goods offered immense growth potential. But one problem kept affecting operations. Constant power outages in the Congolese capital led to numerous production stoppages. The built-in emergency generator was able to keep production running most of the time, but it consumed vast amounts of expensive diesel fuel and polluted the environment through emissions.

The PuroSole coffee roasting plants have zero environmental impact, do not consume energy, do not produce CO2, and can be easily configured and installed according to production needs.

The basic components of each configuration are: groups of reflectors, impeller, control unit. The chosen configuration can then be easily expanded to increase productivity levels, thus safeguarding the investment already made.