Biomass Cookstove Design

Design Principles and Types of Stoves and Food Warmers

Design Principles

• Stove Gap Calculator (Excel Spreadsheet and Description), Crispin Pemberton-Pigott, New Dawn Engineering, Swaziland, March 2006
• Ten Stove Design Principles, Larry Winiarski, Dean Still, Aprovecho, August 2005
• Design Principles for Wood Burning Cook Stoves, Aprovecho Research Center, Partnership for Clean Indoor Air, Shell Foundation, June 2006 (1MB pdf)
• Principios de diseño para estufas de cocción con leña
• Principes de conception des fourneaux de cuisine à bois
• Design Development and Types of Stoves (RWEDP)
• Cooking Stove Improvements: Design for Remote High Altitude Areas Dolpa Region Nepal, Sjoerd Nienhuys April 2005
• Crispin's Excel Spreadsheet for Chimney Draft Calculations, New Dawn Engineering, May 2005
• The NEW PDI- Family Cooker (Pakistan Design Institute -Family Cooker), Chris Adam, May 2005
• Instructions for Building a VITA Stove by Samuel F. Baldwin, 1987, Dean Still May 2005
• Instructional Video "Building a VITA Stove"
  Jeremy Roth, Aprovecho Research Center, June 13th 2006

• Richard Hill Stick Wood Furnace and Emissions Tests (1979-1980), Richard Hill, January 2005
• Hayboxes or Fireless Cookers (October 2003)
• Grates Improve Efficiency, Dean Still, April 24, 2003
• Improved Combustion (Rocket Stove)
  • The Onil Stove, Don Oneal, 2005
• Gasification (Wood Gas or Turbo Stove)
How to Use a Woodgas or Smoke Burner Stove N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy, July 1, 2007
• Philips develops a woodstove that saves lives and preserves energy resources, Paul van der Sluis, Phillips Research, Eindhoven, Netherlands, March 2006
  • Phillips Sustainability
• Midge (Modified Inverted Downdraft Gasifier Experiment) Stove, Woodgas Discussion Group, William Carr, September 2005
• Biomass Gasification: Clean Residential Stoves, Commercial Power Generation, and Global Impacts 8-10 Nov 2004, Viña del Mar, Chile, Paul S. Anderson (Ph.D.) and Thomas B. Reed (Ph.D.)
• The Garlington Woodgas Stove, Ray Garlington 2003

Rocket Stove Design Guides

• VIDEO: How to build a Rocket Stove (includes making insulative refractory bricks), Jeremy Roth, Aprovecho Research Center, June 12, 2007
• STOWs Cooker- Low Cost Concrete and Ceramic Stove, ProBEC, FASEN, PERACOD, Dakar Senegal, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott Sept 2006
• GTZ/Aprovecho(Malawi 2005), Peter Scott, Aprovecho
  • 2 sets of Stove Plans:
    
    • 110L Half Drum Brick Stove Plans
    • 200L Brick Stove Plans
      
  • 2 Excel design guides:
    
    • Household metal Rocket stove design guide
      

    • Institutional metal Rocket Stove design guide
      
  • 2 stove design guides (Microsoft word):
    
    • Brick Institutional Stove Design Guide
      
    • Metal Institutional Stove Design Guide
      
  • 1 design guide for Pot development: (note: this is made for producing pots from stainless steel sheets i250 by 2500 mm)
    
    • 100L and 200L Pot development Design Guide
  • Quality Control Guide for Stove Producers
  • Institutional User Guide