Fuel Briquette Burning at Stoves Camp 2008
Rok Oblak, August 31, 2008
Briquette Burning Stove


Stove Diagram

This prototype was to check the hole of the briquette and how gasification can do a nice job. As said, starting the fire with few small sticks and then after preheating the chamber, briquettes ignite by themselves and burn throughly. You can help flames with having a stick in the hole while burning. I really liked how the briquette retained its shape after it burned out, so you could still push the next one it without preventing the draft..

But the briquette burned with the surface lit from the combustion chamber, as Larry predicted. You could literally walk away of the stove with the consistent flame going on all the time (I guess the briquettes were good quality :) The air inflow was only through the hole of the briquette.

Funny was, that even when one briquette burned out, the next one ignited and the airflow continued through the hole of the first briquette.

(Click image to enlarge in Gallery)

Stove Campi Highlights
Nordica MacCarty, Aprovechoi Research Center, August 2008
Aprovechoi Stove Campi
Greetings Stove Campers!

I hope you are all well, back in your corners of the world.

At long last, the summary and data from stove camp is available, including:
*An attached .pdf of the results and highlights of camp.
*All of the presentations and resources posted on our website at: http://www.aprovecho.org/web-content/publications/publications.html
*Many photos are also uploaded on picasa at http://picasaweb.google.com/aproresearch

Thanks for making Stove Campi 2008 a great success, and we hope to see you in the future!

With best wishes,
Nordica
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Mrs. Nordica MacCarty
Laboratory Manager, Mechanical Engineer
Aprovechoi Research Center
www.aprovecho.org
541-767-0287 Oregon, USA
nordica.maccarty@gmail.com

ETHOSi STOVE CAMP AUG.4-8
Dean Still, Aprovechoi Research Center, April 25, 2008

Dear All,

Stove Campi this year will take place August 4-8 here at the new lab which is on 4 beautiful acres with a nice river on two sides of the property. Folks are invited to camp here near the river! We will cook on wood burning stoves for lunch and dinner and bake tasty bread in a Rocket bread oven. We can have bonfires at night and figure out how to distribute one billion stoves.

Paul Van der Sluis from Philipsi may be able to attend. Friends in India are trying to buy and send us a BPi stove. Can anyone in India assist them? I'll pay costs, shipping, etc.

Pam Baldinger, now in Darfur with USAIDi, very much supports this year's theme and contest. The team that cooks corn flour using the least fuel, etc. wins the more and more coveted Dr. Kirk Smith Cat Pee Award and $250! The most effective solutions will be sent to Pam.

Let's prove that cooking with wood can be done with very little fuel! It's important! Let's help refugees.

There's room for 25 participants. Book early!

ETHOSi Stove Campi costs are:
Instruction/Participation: $100 students $200 others
Camping (5 nights): $25 students $50 others
Five dinners cooked here with wood on Rocket and other stoves: $25

Best,

Dean

Aprovechoi Research Center
Fred's Island
Cottage Grove, Oregon
541 767 0287
http://www.aprovecho.org

Summary of Stove Campi 2007
Dean Still, Nordica MacCarty, Aprovechoi Research Center
Tom Miles and Paul Anderson Amaze Folks at Stoves Camp

One Day at Aprovecho Stove Camp 2006
Tom Miles September 16, 2006

Summary of Aprovecho’s Summer Stove Campi, 2006
By Dean Still and Nordica MacCarty, September 6, 2006

Aprovecho Biomass Stove Camp 2006
Charlie Sellers, EWB-SFPi Appropriate Technology Designii Team, August 27, 2006

See Charlie's blog on the ETHOSi/Aprovechoi Stove Campi

Switchgrassi and Paperi Fireballs at Stoves Camp
Tom Miles, August 2006

Fireballi Switchgrassi

Fireballi Paperi

Stove Campi 2006 August 18 – 21st @ Aprovechoi
Dean Still, May 24, 2006

You are invited to Stove Campi 2006! The lab staff will be there working with you to invent solutions that help evolve inexpensive techniques to decrease fuel use and emissions. Let’s make one focus FAN STOVES!