Model
12monthsOne school-board term
In the model, the board signs for the whole term.
Steam kitchens, metered at buildClean steam utility plants
Clean steam utility plants
designed for institutional debt.
A factory-built steam kitchen for school clusters, hospitals and farm hubs. It is designed around per-plate billing on a take-or-pay floor, measures its own fuel and steam, and keeps working through the school holidays.
Mvuke EcoBox · model unitModel
Thermal efficiency85%system
Steam delivered41.2 tthis month
Meters fittedAt buildfuel, steam, heat
Uptime99.2%12 months
Steam delivered41.2 t12-month run
Per-plate billing on a take-or-pay floor · planned as movable property · meters fitted at buildIllustrative model data4E19·3C55
Banks already lend to schools for clean kitchens, but they lend against the school, its income and its balance sheet, not against the kitchen. So the money only reaches schools strong enough to borrow, and no one can show what the kitchen actually delivers. A kitchen that measures its own fuel, steam and meals lets the asset carry part of the case, and lets the bank prove the loan is green.
How it is set up
- Per-plate billing on a take-or-pay floor
- Meters fitted at build
- Planned as movable property
3,000+Meals per shift capacity
85%System thermal efficiency
12 monthsPer-plate billing
100%Year-round asset use
A kitchen is a site. This is a utility.
How it is done now
Billing by the plate
Fourteen weeks with no school meals can leave a caterer short when the loan falls due.
Firewood and biomass
Smoke, wasted fuel, and no way for a lender to check.
Single-site capacity limits
One school on its own cannot reach the scale a lender needs.
How the Mvuke unit is set up
Per-plate billing on a take-or-pay floor
Billing per plate, on a take-or-pay floor, including the weeks the schools are closed.
Clean steam, metered
No kitchen smoke, meters on fuel and steam, and air quality monitored.
One hub, several schools
A central unit serves three or more schools, reaching 3,000+ meals a shift.
What sits inside the container.
One factory-built unit, with meters fitted at build, planned as movable property, and identical to the next.
General specifications
Form factor: 40ft high-cube all-in-one container, or 40ft processing unit with a 20ft boiler module.
Design life: 15 years, food-grade stainless steel construction.
Asset registration: planned for registration as movable property under the Movable Property Security Rights Act, so it can be recovered and moved.
Thermal & pressure systems
Cooking vessels: six steam-jacketed tilting kettles, operating under 2 bar.
Boiler rating: 500 kg/h at about 2 bar, operated with a safety margin.
Fuel options: LPG, solar-assisted electric, or sustainable biomass briquettes.
Meters & measurement
Instrumentation: continuous fuel flow, steam temperature and pressure, ambient PM2.5 and CO air monitoring.
Checks: three weigh-ins have to agree, from store inventory, kettle weight and the dispatch log.
Four things a bank can check.
Each project is designed to cover repayment every month. Some of it is modelled, some is built, and some is still being arranged. Every part is labelled for what it is.
In design
1accountOne place for the money
The design has the bank hold it and take repayment.
In design
2of 5PCAF data score
The meters sit on the asset.
Built
1fileBeyond the spreadsheet
A governed record, one file a month, with a named approver.
How the money moves each monthModelAccount in design
The school paysThe same amount every month
An account at the bankHeld and watched by the bank
The repaymentThe operator’s loan, on a set date
What is left over goes back to the operator.
Nothing depends on us remembering to pay
In the model, the bank moves the repayment out on a set date. The payment and the date sit in the contract. The account is still in design.
1 · The contractModel
Amount each monthSame every month
How longTwelve months
Who signsThe school board
Who owesThe operator
A twelve-month contract at the same monthly amount
The school board signs before the unit leaves the factory.
2 · The accountIn design
Money inFrom the school
Money outThe monthly repayment
WhenThe same date each month
One account for money in and money out
The design has the bank hold the account and take the repayment on a set date.
3 · The safety netOpen
GuaranteeNot agreed
FormStill being discussed
EffectWould lower the loss
The safety net is the part still open
A guarantee with the lender would lower what the bank can lose. It is still being discussed.
4 · The assetIn design
Planned asMovable property
If a payment stopsTime to fix it, then recover
Design life15 years
The unit can be recovered and moved
The plan is to register it as movable property, so a lender can take it back and place it at another site.
The unit still works when school is out.
The model has the unit earning through the holidays as well, which is what makes a per-plate billing easier to carry. Both uses are shown below.
Term timeFeeding
195Days in sessionSchool feeding hub
Serves 3,000+ daily student meals across the clustered school network.
FIG 02Term serviceSchool holidaysProcessing
14Weeks out of sessionPost-harvest agricultural processing
Steam blanching, pasteurization, and curing for local farm co-operatives.
FIG 03Off-season loadWhat lenders need to know.
The questions a credit committee asks, answered before the call.
The model assumes a minimum volume commitment. The level is set for each site.Volume risk
Your credit team and outside auditors can log in and read the meters, daily fuel use, uptime and the monthly record.Auditor access
We check the fuel before we agree to a site. We do not run on coal or timber from an unknown source.Fuel check
The unit measures its own fuel, steam and heat from the day it is built, which puts it at PCAF data quality Score 2.How good the data is
Evaluate a school cluster or farm hub.
School board, agricultural co-op, or lender: submit site details and we will assess the cluster.