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Erin Rasmussen

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VestoVesto

The Vesto consists of five main components:

Erin Rasmussen

Developed by New Dawn Engineering

Available through Afreca (the Association for Renewable Energy Cooking Appliances)

The results of field testing the POCA/Maputo Ceramic Stove (MCS) and traditional metal stoves (TMS) using an uncontrolled cooking test (UCT) are attached. In a UCT people cook whatever they want and we watch carefully. The results have fuel-moisture compensated values. The charcoal was almost always hardwood lumps. Larger meals tend to be watery and small meals tend to be frying something in oil.

Tom Miles

TLUD Vesto Grasifier
Crispin Pemberton-Pigott, New Dawn Engineering, Swaziland, April 2, 2010


Dear Roger and TLUD Fans (the other kind)

Erin Rasmussen

Crispin Pemberton-Pigott and Roger Samson, February 2010

Please click Read More for a set of photos showing the construction of a prototype 125 mm diameter Grasifier Stove burning Switchgrass Pellets provided by Roger Samson (REAP-Canada).

Tom Miles

Version 1.1 ENERGY COST OF MAKING CHARCOAL FROM DAMP WOOD
Download attached spreadsheet.
Edit only the values in the blue cells © C Pemberton‐Pigott, January 2010

Tom Miles

Dry Fuel Equivalent Calculator
Crispin and Nigel Pemberton-Pigott, October 2007

Tom Miles

Heat Content of Ethanol Gel
Crispin Pemberton-Pigott, August 26, 2007
Dear Friends

Tom Miles

Maputo Ceramic Stove Update
Crispin Pemberton Pigott, New Dawn Engineering, Swaziland, June 6, 2007
MCSMCS

Video Showing Gasification-Combustion Transitions in the Vesto Stove
Crispin Pemberton-Pigott, New Dawn Engineering, Swaziland, June 4, 2007

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