Materials and Manufacturing Techniques

• Mud
  • Mud Stoves, Aprovecho/PCIA April 2005
• Ceramic and Concrete:
  • VIDEO: How to build a Rocket Stove (includes making insulative refractory bricks), Jeremy Roth, Aprovechoi Research Center, June 12, 2007
  • Durability of Insulating Bricks and Ceramic Stoves, Discussion September 2005
  • Report on Baldosa Tiles for HELPS and TW Stoves September 2005
  • Ecofogao/Ecostove Brochure, Stuart Conway, Trees Water and People, April 2005
  • Practical Tips For Potters Making Improved Cooking Stoves
  • Part 1: Forward and Introduction
  • Part 2: Finding and Selecting the Clay
  • Part 3: Testing the Clay For Cooking Stoves
  • Part 4: Materials That Can be Added to Make a Better Mixture
  • Part 5 -- Making Up and Testing Mixtures, and Clay Preparation, Richard Boyt, June 2005
  • Part 6: Forming Stoves, Richard Boyt, June 2005
  • Part 7: Drying and Firing the Stove, Richard Boyt, July 2005
• Ceramic Charcoal Making Cookstove Richard Boyt and Ron Larson June 2003
• Ceramics for Cookstoves
  • Part 1: Finding Clay (May 2003)
  • Part 2: Testing Unfired (green) Clay(May 2003)
  • Part 3a: Test firing local clays- primitive kilns (May 2003)
  • Part 3b: Test Firing Local Clays- Re-discovery of a "Natural" Kiln (June 2003)
  • Part 4: Drying Formed Clay Shapes (September 2003)
  • Part 5a: Making Samples for Testing (August 2003)
  • Part 7- Ash/clay-- Modifying, Shaping, and Drying (July 2005)
• Specific Thermal Resistance of Various Materials, Roberto Escardo (May 2003)
• Heat loss from stoves: Thermal properties of insulative bricks Overall heat losses Dale Andreatta (April 2003)
• How to Make a Portable Clay Stove IFPS Malawi/GTZ ProBEC (February 2003)
• How to construct a kiln for clay stove firing Christa Roth, IFPS Malawi (February 2003)
• The Onil Stove, Don Oneal 2005
• Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (AAC)
• Ceramics, Clay and Insulating Brick
• Making Insulative Clay Combustion Chambers slide show, Dean Still, Aprovecho March 2003
• Using Pumice to Make Lightweight Ceramics in El Salvador Damon Ogle, March 31, 2003
• MAKING LIGHT WEIGHT REFRACTORY CERAMIC FROM PERLITE AND CLAY Damon Ogle Jan 13, 2003
• The Effect of Material Choice on the Combustion Chamber of a Rocket Cooking Stove: Adobe, Common Brick, Vernacular Insulative Ceramic, and Guatemalan Floor Tile (Baldosa) Dean Still and Brad van Appel January 1, 2002
• HELPS Plancha Stove Jutiaupa Mod With Inverted Pyramid Don O'Neal March 2003
• Ron Larson's Questions and Answers March 2003
• Making Baldosa Tiles for HELPS Stoves in Guatemala Don O'Neal Feb 3 2003