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"gas-under-glass" stove is made in a plant in Swidnica,
south-west Poland, and has already found customers at home and
abroad thanks to its efficiency, which inventors say is 50 per
cent higher than traditional gas stoves.
The president of Solgaz, the firm behind the invention,
explained that this is achieved thanks to very effective burning
of the gas inside the stove.
"Inside there are highly effective, catalytic gas burners which
burn the gas superbly. Their unique feature is that the
combustion of gas occurs at a very high temperature, about 800
degrees (Celsius). Therefore the gas burns completely, it burns
very accurately, and harmful gases such as carbon monoxide or
nitrogen oxides are not produced," Mieczyslaw Kaczmarczyk said.
Emission levels for harmful substances from the combustion of
gas can be 10 times lower than norms for open-flame gas stoves
and gas consumption is reduced by up to 50 per cent, the
company's engineers say.
Initially, the stove was designed by a former engineer of the
company for his wife, but the solution proved so effective that
after several years of tests and research it was adopted for
production.
"An important aspect here is safety because inside we have
applied two kinds of security measures. The first is as in any
ordinary gas stove and the second is an electronic protection
against gas leaks which constantly checks if the gas is being
extracted and whether it is burning at that moment. If these two
things do not work the whole stove shuts down and starts
beeping," Solgaz marketing manager Jakub Biel said, adding that
the stove also shuts off automatically if a pot boils over.
The stove can be used anywhere where supplying the current
needed for an electrical stove might be difficult - such as
older buildings where the infrastructure doesn't allow it, or in
places that use gas as the main heating source.
"The ordinary user is our greatest market, a person who has a
kitchen and just wants to cook something at home," Kaczmarczyk
said. "But they are also suitable for yachts, suitable for
caravans, so here we also have customers from this segment."
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