SoFo (ScOre FOllow on Project)

SoFo将对Score-Stove项目进行研究，并在孟加拉国、塔吉克斯坦和英国探索至少两种商业模式。EPSRC最初的呼吁是专门针对发展中国家的应用。EPSRC批准的Score提案旨在确保在发展中国家获得的任何利润都留在这些国家。这些地区的商业化必须使目标社会受益。Score热声技术有更广泛的应用，我们还打算通过许可证和赠款在英国将该技术商业化，用于CHP（热电联产）和生物质燃烧炉灶。Score-Stove是一种低成本的木材或粪便燃烧炉，也可以发电供个别家庭使用。它减少了高达50%的木材消耗，几乎消除了烟雾吸入，在发展中国家，家庭在3石炉子上做饭，没有电。SoFo将激发发展中国家和英国制造商和投资者的兴趣。通过示范，它将获得更准确的炉灶制造成本，并对每个目标地区进行市场研究。每个演示都将根据当地的烹饪习惯，燃料和美学要求进行定制，以便将现有的科学设备转化为更具吸引力的商业主张。根据产品成本和碳信用额或可用赠款，这种炉灶的潜在农村全球市场为1 500万至5亿台。英国替代CHP锅炉市场估计每年为250，000台。该项目将评估在三个目标国家内有多少这些市场。

SoFo will take the research done on the Score-Stove project and explore at least two business models for exploitation in each of Bangladesh, Tajikistan and the UK. The original call from EPSRC was specifically targeted at developing country applications. The Score proposal, as granted by EPSRC, was covenanted to ensure that any profits made in the developing countries remained in those countries. Commercialisation in these regions has to benefit the targeted societies. The Score thermo-acoustic technology has wider applications and we also intend to commercialise the technology within the UK by licence and grants for such uses as CHP (Combined Heat and Power) and bio-mass burning cooking stoves. The Score-Stove is a low-cost wood or dung burning stove that also generates electricity for use in individual households. It reduces wood consumption by up to 50% and virtually eliminates smoke inhalation that causes so many health concerns in developing countries where households cook on a 3 stone stove and have no access to electricity. SoFo will stimulate interest in developing country and UK manufacturers and investors. Through demonstrations it will obtain more accurate costs for stove manufacture and produce market research for each target area. The demonstrations will each be customised for local cooking habits, fuel and aesthetic requirements, so as to put the existing scientific rig into a more attractive business proposition. The potential rural world-wide market for the stove is from 15 million to 500 million units depending on the product cost and carbon credits or grants available. The UK replacement CHP boiler market is estimated at 250,000 units per year. This project will evaluate how much of these markets are available within the three targeted countries.