Establishment of a Training Course for Small-scale Solar Cooling

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Key Project Data: Establishment of a Training Course for Small-scale Solar Cooling

Organization		Strathmore Energy Research Centre (SERC), Kenya - University of Hohenheim, Germany
Organization Type		Public sector
Country		Kenya
Location/area: Nairobi Capital City Kenya
Project Timeframe		2019/09/01 until 2021/08/31
Donors		BMZ other

Project Description

The project plans to establish a 5-day-course on solar cooling at the SERC in Nairobi. The participants of the course will be enabled to construct solar cooling systems by themselves that can be used along agricultural value chains. Therefore, a curriculum is developed with in the project and first people will be trained within the projects time frame. After the official end of the project, the course is ready to be offered by the SERC indipendently for many more intereseted people. The SERC cooperates with the German "University Hohenheim".

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Website		https://www.strathmore.edu/serc/ https://agrartechnik-440e.uni-hohenheim.de/en/1670
Email		Director Ms. Sarah Odera <sodera@strathmore.edu> Establishment of a Training Course for Small-scale Solar Cooling

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Technology		other
Activity Type		Technology Trainings Networking
Beneficiary Type		Small companies

Additional Information

The aim of the project is the establishment of a training course to facilitate capacity building for the design, production, assembling, installation and maintenance of small-scale Solar cooling systems in Kenya. The Energy Research Center (SERC) attached to the Strathmore University in Nairobi is a highly recognized and accredited institution for the training of technicians in the area of Solar Energy. The Institute of Agricultural Engineering of the University of Hohenheim has being developing since 2014 several solar powered cooling solutions, which are suitable for local production. Both institutions cooperate since 2018 for the creation of awareness on the use of Solar energy for refrigeration of agricultural products. Within the project, a five day technical training course will be established with focus on:

● Knowledge of agricultural value chains and promising business models for farmers

● Cooling requirements of food regarding storage temperature, humidity and ventilation needs

● Basis on refrigeration technologies

● Calculation of thermal loads for the most typical cooling systems (based on design tools)

● Design of PV panels and electrical/thermal storage

● Local production of solar cooling systems based on the use of cooling units

● Optimal insulation, ice-storage and PV yield based on climatic conditions

● Practical assembling work with example systems (Cold room, ice-makers and refrigerators)

● Energy efficiency indicators of cooling solutions

● Installation and maintenance

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