Paal Wendelobo, January 2010

What I feel is strongly needed by NGO's and others dealing with Household Energy for Developing Countries; is a list of about top10 actual fuels to be used and top 10 actual types of stoves to be used.

Wood

• Solid wood
• Briquettes
• Pellets
• Charcoal
• Chopped and chipped wood
• Grass and straw
• Agriculture and forest related waste.
• Milling waste
• Others

With a list of energy values

Fuel

• Charcoal stoves
• Mud stove for wood
• Rocket -stove foe woodsticks
• TLLUD-ND for chopped wood, pellets/briquettes
• TLUD-FD pellets/briquettes
• Others

With a short explanation about function, advantages and disadvantages, type of fuel which can be used. A comparison table for fuel consumption, time of cooking, CO,CO2 PM etc

Production

• Low tech
• High tech
• Produced by local tinsmith
• Produced by mechanical wokshop.
• Welding needed or not
• Mass-production
• Access to templates and plans from
• Prices
• Others

Practical use

• Filling, feeding,
• Ignition
• Ash emptying
• Time of flame for cooking.
• Time of simmering.
• Time of burn unattended (for heating)
• Bio-char left
• Practical use
• Safety for children
• Ability to boil and keep hot 10L of water (or more)
• Others

A maximum of one A4 page to each subject to be shown should be enough. A ranking list from 1 to 10 to fuel and stoves could also be of interest and a kind of minimum requirement to enter the list.

With the regards Paal Wair max 90 leather pink youth