User perceptions about the adoption and use of ethanol fuel and cookstoves in Maputo, Mozambique
User perceptions about the adoption and use of ethanol fuel and cookstoves in Maputo, Mozambique
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10.1016/j.esd.2018.03.004
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发表时间：
2018-06-01
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5.5
通讯作者：
Attanassov, Boris
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作者：
Mudombi, Shakespear;Nyambane, Anne;Attanassov, Boris
乙醇已被提议作为清洁的烹饪燃料，以减少撒哈拉以南非洲城市和城郊家庭的木炭使用。这可能会带来双重好处，即减少对人类健康的影响和减少森林砍伐。本研究的目的是更好地了解乙醇炉灶技术的吸收的障碍，引发用户的感知，采用和使用模式的乙醇炉灶。这项研究是在马普托进行的，马普托是非洲第一个大规模商业乙醇炉项目的重点城市。采用定量（N = 341个家庭访谈）和定性方法（5个焦点小组讨论，专家访谈）的混合方法。目前约有17%的受访家庭使用乙醇炉灶，约有12%的家庭停止使用乙醇炉灶，71%的家庭从未使用过乙醇炉灶。虽然很大一部分乙醇用户在烹饪时间、方便性、清洁度和易用性方面将乙醇炉灶与木炭进行了比较，但与木炭相比，乙醇的使用似乎有所减少。乙醇似乎已经取代了其他清洁烹饪技术，如电力或液化石油气，而不是木炭。高乙醇燃料价格结合低燃料质量和可获得性，以及炉灶故障，由于不良的设计影响了许多乙醇炉灶采用者退出it.For乙醇的有效吸收，这将是必要的，以解决的因素，往往会阻碍其使用，特别是其初始和运营成本高，燃料质量差，燃料供应不可靠，和不良的炉灶设计。虽然清洁炊事燃料由于价格低廉和无法满足用户的喜好而可能对用户没有吸引力，但针对潜在用户的提高认识运动应强调清洁炊事燃料的相关健康和安全益处。(C)2018国际能源倡议。爱思唯尔公司出版All rights reserved.
Ethanol has been proposed as a dean cooking fuel to reduce the use of charcoal in urban and peri-urban households in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This could have the twin benefits of reduced impacts on human health and deforestation. The aim of this study is to better understand the barriers to the uptake of ethanol stove technologies by eliciting users' perception, adoption, and use patterns of ethanol stoves. The study was undertaken in Maputo, a city that was the focus of the first large-scale commercial ethanol stove project in Africa. A mixed-methods approach was adopted using both quantitative (N = 341 household interviews) and qualitative methods (5 focus group discussions, expert interviews). Ethanol stoves are currently used by about 17% of the surveyed households, while approximately 12% had discontinued its use and 71% never used it. While a large proportion of ethanol users compared the stove favourably against charcoal in terms of cooking time, convenience, cleanliness, and easiness to use, ethanol use seems to have diminished compared to charcoal. Ethanol seems to have replaced other clean cooking technologies such as electricity or LPG rather than charcoal. High ethanol fuel prices combined with low fuel quality and accessibility, as well as stove malfunctions due to poor design influenced many ethanol stove adopters to quit it. For the effective uptake of ethanol, it will be necessary to address the factors that tend to discourage its use, particularly its high initial and operational cost, poor fuel quality, unreliable fuel supply, and poor stove design. Although clean cooking fuels might not be attractive to users due to affordability and failure to meet user preferences, awareness raising campaigns that target potential users should emphasise the associated health and safety benefits of clean cooking fuels. (C) 2018 International Energy Initiative. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.