This page exists to help people involved in the development of a better stove
for cooking with biomass fuels in developing regions.A discusion of this issue
is occurring on the Stoves Mailing List. Link to
Archive
List Moderators are Ron Larson (ronallarson@qwest.net) and
Elsen L. Karstad (elk@wananchi.com www.chardust.com)
If you have relevant information or pictures please send it to CREST, so we can post it through this site, and share it with other interested folks.
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| Dean
Still
dstill@epud.net April 27 2002 |
"Rocket" style submerged pot Uganda Stove |
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| Richard
Stanley
rstanley@legacyfound.org May 2002 |
Fuel Briquettes |  |
| Dean
Still
dstill@epud.net "Rocket" style Cacao Bean Dryer USAID/Winrock March 2002 |
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| Dean
Still
dstill@epud.net Rocket stove with griddle designed with DonO'Neal for HELPS International in Guatemala March 2002 |
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| Peter
Verhaart
pverhaart@mail.optusnet.com.au Downdraft Barbeque Feb 5, 2002 |
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| Jeff
Forsell
JEFF.FORSSELL@ssvh.se |
Please
criticize this plan for a Rocket elbow type stove (See description) 2/04/02 |
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| Tom
Reed
Reedtb2@cs.com |
I'm
attaching a picture of our development model of the woodgas campstove gas
flames.
2/02/2002 |
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| Paul
S. Anderson
psanders@ilstu.edu Juntos Stove Development January 2002 February 2002 |
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| Dean
Still
dstill@epud.net Lanny's Rocket Wok
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| Dean
Still
Richard Henya's Rocket Stove, Kenya 01/26/2002 |
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NEWS
Kirk Smith Short Primer on Stove Efficiency, May 4, 2002
Dean Still, ETHOS Website,
Engineers in Technical, Humanitarian Opportunities of Service, April 2002
Evans Kituyi Bioenergy Africa, February 2, 2002
International Conference on Biomass-based Fuels and Cooking Systems, (BFCS-2000): A Report, Dr. Priya Karve
A few images from the conference.
Contributions from some of the Stoves mailing
list's participants
Most were submited as an aid to discussions
which occured on the list.
- Juntos Stove Testing (Feb 21, 2002)
- Juntos Stove, Modified Rocket Stove (Jan 31, 2002)
- Two
Days at the Appropriate Rural Technology Institute Field Research Station in
Phaltan, India Working with Hemant Mahajan (ARTI Engineer, with the white
cap) to demonstrate charcoal production using Top-Down pyrolysis and off-gas
combustion. ( Nov 28-29, 2000) Alex English english@kingston.net
- The Bigtop Pyrolyser Temperature Profile, (Oct 20, 20000) Alex English english@kingston.net
- The Bigtop 50 kilowatt wood pellet gasifier / charcoal maker (Sept 27, 2000), Alex English
- Pyrolyser with Horizontal Burner Alex English March 24, 2000
- Clean combustion of pyrolisis gasses while making charcoal with wood pellets.(March 25/99)
- Summary of one afternoon of tests done on a down draft wood boiler. (March 25/99)
- Drawing and Pictures of the arrangement used to turn a drum full of dry wood into charcoal while burning off the noxious gasses. Alex English (July 12/ 98)
- Flaring Gasses While Making Charcoal, from Alex English(July 3/98)
- Fruit Drier Heat Exchanger
- Testing Stoves With a Vent Hood (Dec 18/97)
- Alex English's University Test Burner (Oct 14/97)
- Venturi Gasifier Test.(Sept 18/97)
- The Curvacious Charcoal Making Wood Gas Burning Stove (AE's latest test, Sept 11/97)
- Alex English's Latest Experiment (Aug 1/97)
- Picture of the swirl inducing add on for the venturi shown above
- Cut away view of swirl inducing add on
- Drawing and discription of the venturi burner.
- Mamou Fuelwood Cookstove
- Swosthee Stove
- Chimney Draft Chart
- Drawing of a device for Activating Charcoal (Nov 18, 99)
- Recent News about The Dona Justa Stove
- and more, from Aprovecho (Jan 25,2000)
- Rocket
Elbow Stove (Feb 2, 2002)
- The Winiarski Rocket Stove (Feb 4,2002)
- Link to Rocket Page
- John Gulland's Visit to Honduras (Jan 6/1999)[Missing]
- COST ESTIMATES FOR A ‘DREAM STOVE’ FOR ASIA PROF. P. D. GROVER (Oct15, 99)
- Charcoal
Plant from Dr Yury Yudkevitch (March 26/99)
- Making Charcoal, from Dr Yury Yudkevitch(July 3/98)
- Dr Jury Judkevitch's Polykor Furnace (March 6, 98)
- Dr. Jury Judevitch variation on the Wood-Gas Cook Stove (March 3,98)
- Drawing
of Charcoal Fired Water Heater, from Elsen Karstad (July19,2000)
- Elsen Karstad's Charcoal Briquetteing Equiptment (March 3/99)
- Photos of the 6-Drum Sawdust Carboniser taken on 11/11/98. by Elsen Karstad
- Carbonizing Charcoal and Briquetting, from Elsen Karstad (July3/98)
- The World's Formost Authority on the One Can Stoves (July2/98)
- Pictures of Elsen Karstad's Sawdust Carbonizing Experiments.(March 31/98)
- Pictures of Elsen Karstads Stove (Oct 31/97)
- Elsen Karstad's Charcoal Making Wood Gas Cooking Stove (Oct 2/97)
- Elsen Karstad's Charcoal Making Wood Gas Cooking Stove (Sept 19/97)
- Pictures of Elsen Karstad's Version of the Two Can Charcoal Making Stove
- Pictures of Elsen Karstad's Briquetting Machine
- Turning
Sawdust into Charcoal, in Malaysia (June 23/98)
- Drawings and Discription of the Thermette Water Heater (Aug 31/98)
- Pictures and Drawings of the Swosthee Stove (Aug 19/98)
- Clean
Combuston of Wood by A.M. Hasan and R Khan (1991)
(Please Note: This link contains about 600Kbs, and will load slowly. On my machine it loads faster, in aproximately 3 minutes, than I can read it's 34 pages.)
- Woodgas Stove Flame,
Tom Reed (February 2, 2002)
- Two Papers on The Turbo Stove , Tom Reed (July 31,99)
- Picture of the Inverted Downdraft Wood Gas Stove-- Tom Reed and Ronal Larson [Missing]
- Drawing of the IDD Wood Gas Stove
- A Wood-Gas Stove for Developing Countries by Tom Reed and Ronal Larson
- Background on the "Inverted Downdraft Gasifier" by Tom Reed
- Two Papers on The Turbo Stove , Tom Reed (July 31,99)
- Short Primer on Stove Efficiency, May 4, 2002
- GREENHOUSE GASES FROM
SMALL-SCALE COMBUSTION DEVICES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: PHASE IIA: HOUSEHOLD
STOVES IN INDIA
- GREENHOUSE GASES FROM SMALL-SCALE COMBUSTION DEVICES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: Phase III: Charcoal Kilns in Thailand
- Overview of the Indian National Burden of Disease from Indoor Air Pollution Kirk R. Smith (July 12/98)
Agro Residue Fuel Briquettes, (May 12, 2001)
- Rocket Style Uganda Stove (April 27, 2002)
- Wood Fired Cacao Dryer in Nicaragua (March 4, 2002)
- HELPS International Rocket Stove (March 2002)
- Lanny's Rocket Wok (January 27,
2002)
- Lanny's Rocket Wok II
- Lanny's Rocket Wok Top
- Richard Henya, Kenya, (January 26, 2002) with Liner, Complete Stove
- Image of a Rocket stove made from pumice. Dean Still (March18, 2001)
- Image of a Rocket Griddle Stove, Dean Still (April 1, 2001)
- Downdraft Barbeque (Feb 5, 2002)
- Downdraft Barbeque, Peter Verhaart (Feb 7,99)
- Australian Outback Coffee Maker, from Piet Verhart (Aug 16/98)
- The file Charst.jpg is a picture of my version of the Larson - Reed Charcoal producing stove. In order to limit heat loss I made an insert (the ganvanised pipe on the left). The next file Csvalve.fpg is a detail of the bottom valve to admit air through the bottom of the stove.
- The Jak stove (I thought of it while in Jakarta and it has a movable bottom which is jacked up as the fuel burns up) (Feb 2002).
- Claudio Sbaraglia's picture of a charcoal kiln, (Feb 1/99)
- Chardust
- Aprovecho Research Center
- Regional Wood Energy Development Program
- Design and Operating Factors Which Affect Emissions from Residential Wood-Fired Heaters: Review and Update by Paul Tiegs
- Burning Charcoal Issues
- Estufa Plancha Masons on a Mission, Patrick Manley/Guatemala Stove Project, Tom Clarke
- ARECOP - Asia Regional Cookstove Program and Glow Magazine
- HEDON Household Energy Network, Grant Ballard-Tremeer
- Emissions of Rural Wood-Burning Cooking Devices Grant Ballard-Tremeer
- Study on Improved Institutional Biomass Cooking Stoves S C Bhattacharya
- Indoor Air Pollution
- Prof. Kirk R. Smith UC Berkeley, CA, US
- Lowering Exposure of Children to Indoor Air Pollution to Prevent Acute Respiratory Infection Environmental Health Project (pdf)
- Pellet Fuels Institute
- Hearth Net
- Ovencrafters, Alan Scott
- Intermediate Technology Group Latin America
- The Masonry Heater Association of North America 2001 Annual Meeting
Chambers Stoves
_________________________________________________________________________________Thanks to Alex English for creating this site. Edited May 5,
2002 by Tom
Miles