SimGas

SimGas solves problems faced by rural households in East Africa through innovative, scalable products and a forward-thinking business approach.

In my role as CTO, I led a team of six design engineers and was responsible for managing the product and service portfolio, shaping the innovation roadmap, and fostering the professional development of SimGas employees. I have contributed to several groundbreaking biogas related innovations, such as:

  • a fully plastic domestic biogas system: designed with a modular set of robust components, enabling digesters of various sizes to be easily assembled.
  • the first off-grid, biogas-powered milk chiller: a solution for farm-level milk preservation.
  • a remote monitoring system: capable of collecting and analyzing performance data from biogas systems locally.
  • a sanitation system for schools: utilizing anaerobic digestion of humanure for sustainable waste management.
Biogas digester GesiShamba, completed with preliminary cover solution, Tanzania Jul 2016
Plastic shell elements of biogas tank are used as preliminary solution for cover design
GesiShamba tank installation
GesiShamba like the system currently is sold and installed, preliminary design that functions well and reliable now, Dec 2016.
Fertile slurry from the digester directly runs into the garden
Final design GesiShamba, including professional cover design
Biogas in the kitchen
Design sensor unit for remote & real-time monitoring biogas systems, 2016
Innovation reward from IDEO.org, Jul 2016
Improved design biogas milkchiller, designer: Thomas van der Schoor, Jan 2017
Milkchiller prototype, Kenya 2018
Love is given to elephant orphan in Nairobi National Park, March 2017
On my way from Nairobi to Karatina, March 2017
Teamevent, on our way Sep 2017