Biomass Cooking Fuels

A Young Man Carries Fuel in Eritrea (FAO/19434/R. Faidutti)	India: Young Girl Collects Cow Dung for Fuel (FAO/18146/G. Pangare)	Low Tech Fuel Briquette, Peru Legacy Foundation	Honeycomb Charcoal, Nepal Sjoerd Nienhuys SNV

USING WOOD FUEL

• Thinking About Wood (in El Salvador) Ken Goyer, March 2003

Charcoal Production and Use

• Burning Charcoal Issues
• Kenya
  • Chardust Kenya
    • CANECOAL, Western Kenya Elsen Karstad, Chardust, May 2003
    • Carbonizing Charcoal and Briquetting, from Elsen Karstad (July3/98)
  • How Charcoal Fires Heat the World Environmental Science and Technology Online April 2003 and Rob Bailis, Majid Ezzati, Daniel Kammen, Greenhouse Gas Implications of Household Energy Technology in Kenya, Environmental Science and Technology 2003, 37, 2051-2059
• Brazil, France
  • Green-Charcoal, (pdf) 3 TPD, Pro-Natura International, France, Courtesy Fernando Martirena, September 2005
• Cambodia
  • Improving Wood Charcoal Manufacture CFSP
• Chad
  • In Pictures: Charcoal in Chad, BBC News UK, Richard Stanley February 2006
• Char Briquettes - ARTI India, SNV Nepal, Chardust Kenya
• ARTI, India
  • ARTI Charcoal and Honeycomb Briquettes, Nov 2002
  • Low Cost Charcoal Without Wood (April 2002) Ashden Award
  • Field Research Station, Phaltan
• Lampang, Thailand
  • Making Bamboo Charcoal in Lampang, Matthew Owen (2000)
• Philippines, Rice Hull
  • Design and Evaluation of a Drum-Type RiceHull Carbonizer and the Manually-Operated Briquette Molder for Biocoal Fuel Production and for Agricultural Applications by Alexis T. Belonio
    
  • FPRDI Small Scale Rice Hull Pyrolyzer Forest Products Research and Development Institute, College Laguna, Philippines
• Coconut Husk, India
  • Coconut Shell Charcoal, Coconut Development Board, India
• Malaysia
  • Turning Sawdust into Charcoal, in Malaysia (June 23/98)

• Nepal
  • The Beehive (Honeycomb) Charcoal Briquette Stove in the Khumbu Region, Nepal, Sjoerd Nienhuys (1 800 kb pdf) March 18, 2003
    
• Nicaragua
  • The Vertical Shaft Brick Kiln (VSBK) in Nicaragua (pdf 500k), Martin Melendez, Grupo Sofonias Nicaragua (July 2003)
• Canada 
  • JF Bioenergy Mobile Demonstration unit Boston Bar, BC Canada, John Flottvik, July 2005
• Germany
  • ICPS Improved Charcoal Production System, Chris Adam, Adam + Partner, Germany, August 2005
  • Continuous Carbonization System CCS_INTT Chris Adam, Appropriate Technologist and Designer, Germany January 17, 2005, Revised April 5, 2006
• Russia
  • Wood Charcoal Technologies: Bioenergy LLC, St. Petersburg, Russia, Yury Yudkevitch 2004
• South Africa
  • Enviro Carboniser, John Hofmeyr, South Africa, August 2005
  • Karbotek, Estcourt, South Africa www.karbotek.com 2004 Activated Carbon
• US 
  • Flash Carbonization of Biomass Kazuhiro Mochidzuki, Lloyd S. Paredes, and Michael J. Antal, Jr. Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822

Charcoal Stoves

• Honeycomb Charcoal Briquette Stove
  • The Beehive Charcoal Briquette Stove in the Khumbu Region, Nepal, Sjoerd Nienhuys (1 800 kb pdf) March 18, 2003
    
• Sarai Stainless Steel Steam Cooker
  • Sarai Stove (ARTI)
• Laxmi, India (ARTI)
  • The Laxmi Stoves, Priyadarshini Karve updated(April 27/98)
• Mogogo Eritrea
  • Robert Van Buskirk: Eritrea Traditional Stove Efficiency
• Pyromid, US charcoal briquettes, Paul Hait
• Tanzania
  • Sazawa Charcoal Stove Designed for Efficient Use of Charcoal C. Pesambili, F. Magessa and N. Mwakabuta, Tanzania Traditional Energy Development and Environment Organization (TaTEDO) Dar Es Salaam 2003

Densified Biomass: Briquettes, Pellets

• Surentechnology, Briquetters and Pellet Machines, Armenia and Italy, December 2005
• Shimada Firelogs, John Olsen, Healog Inc. , Vancouver, BC, Canada February 2005
• Biomass Briquettes in India including list of producers, Ramesh K Nibhoria, NISHANT BIOENERGY CONSULTANCY, Chandigarh October 2003, 2005
• Prototype Briquette Gasifier Stove Richard Stanley and Kobus Venter (October 2003)
• Thresher Masher Richard Stanley, Kampala, Uganda October 2003
• Ecosur Holey Briquette Press Fernando Martirena (September 2003)
• Burning Behaviour of Holey Briquettes, Richard Stanley, Kampala, Uganda, (September 2003)
• ADRA Peru Fogones mejorados y Briquetas Orgánicas Demetrio Roja and Richard Stanley (August 2003)
• Low Tech Briquettes - Legacy Foundation
• Solid Fuel Block Out of Waste Biomass. The Cuba Case March 2002
• Fuel Briquettes Production and Promotion of Cooking Stoves for Use for Household Use, Sudan (1994) UN Office for Project Services
• Biomass Briquetting in Bangladesh, Renewabel Energy Technologies Asia
• Study on the Production of Briquettes from Bagasse (pdf) Apolinario, M. A., Gatanela, D.V., Escarrila, L. T., Gaston, N. D. 21 Sugar and Sugar By-products Research Division,Sugar Regulatory Administration, Bacolod City with Alexis T. Belonio, Central Phillipine University
• Proceedings of the International Workshop on Biomass Briquetting, New Delhi, India (3-6 APRIL 1995) Edited by P. D. Grover & S. K. Mishra, RWEDP No. 23. (pdf)
• Pellet Fuels Institute (US)

Biomass

• Rice Husks: LoTrau. Mayon Voila 1
• Bamboo
• Coconut Palm and husk
• Dung cake
• Plantations: gliricida, acacia, eucalyptus
• Straw
• Sugar Cane Leaves, Bagasse
• Wood, stickwood, sawdust

Liquid Fuels: Ethanol and Methanol

• Development of Stove running on low ethanol concentration, Anil K. Rajvanshi NARI, India, June 2005
• Dometic Cleancook Alcohol Stoves, Harry Stokes, Project Gaia, September 2005
• Safety of Ethanol and Methanol Fuels for stoves, Harry Stokes, Project Gaia, January 2005
  • Commercialization of a New Stove and Fuel System for Household Energy in Ethiopia Using Ethanol from Sugar Cane Residues and Methanol from Natural Gas, Presented to the Ethopian Society of Chemical Engineers (ESChE), October 2004
  • METHANOL – The Other Alcohol, A Bridge to a Sustainable Clean Liquid Fuel, July 2000
• Ethanol Gel as Domestic Fuel 2003, pdf, Piet Visser

Coal

• Gasifier Coal Stove John Davies South Africa April 2003, October 2003
• Coal dust
• Briquettes

Fuel Supply and Use

• An assessment of biofuel use and burning of agricultural waste in the developing world, Rosemarie Yevich and Jennifer Logan, 2002, Submitted to Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University.
• Valuation of fuelwood and charcoal in developing countries, Thesis Outline, Stephanie Van de vreken, University of Ghent , Belgium and FAO, February 2005
• Biomass Energy Potentials And Utilization In Indonesia KAMARUDDIN ABDULLAH 2001 (pdf)
• Study of Biomass As an Energy Source and Technical Options for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction: The Philippine Case, Reuben Emmanuel T. QuejasChief, Non-Conventional Energy Division Department of Energy
• ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES: PHILIPPINES, Asian Regional Research Programme in Energy, Environment and Climate (ARRPEEC), SIDA (Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency)
• Lost Opportunities: Woodfuel Data and Policy Concerns in Kenya African Centre for Technology Studies, Nairobi, Kenya, 2002
• Assessment of economic and environmental aspects of fuelwood exploitation: A case study on fuelwood commercialisation in the outskirt of Yaoundé, Cameroon Abstract (100k pdf) Thesis (2400 k pdf)
• DEFORESTATION AND WOOD USES IN THE ECUADOREAN ANDES Sven Wunder IIUCN Forest Conservation Program
• Challenges of Community Forestry in India. In Asia Pacific Forestry Research - Vision 2010 Hegde, N.G. 2000 Proc. of the Regional Seminar. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Mar. 26-27, 1999. : 11-20. Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation (BAIF) Development Research Foundation

FAO Corporate Document Repository

• Review of Existing Studies Related to Fuelwood and/or Charcoal in Mozambique, EC-FAO 2000 
• Review of Existing Studies Related to Fuelwood and/or Charcoal in Eritrea, EC-FAO 2000
• Woodfuel Review and Assessment in Liberia, EC-AO 2000
• Woodfuel Review and Assessment in Seychelles, EC-FAO 2000
• Woodfuel Review and Assessment Namibia Country Study, EC-FAO 2000
• Woodfuel Review and Assessment in Zambia EC-FAO 2000
• General Aspects of Woodfuel Flows in Sri Lanka RWEDP 1998
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(WMO Climate Change, 2001)