Improved Biomass Cooking Stoves

GEO fuel briquettes

is a very low cost technology, and also for making briquettes with very less effort. This is screw based system, requires very less energy and space to operate. Briquettes can be made using human power, convenient for young or old in making briquettes from various types of waste material. Small pieces of waste papers, sawdust, leaves, wood shavings, rice husk, etc. can be used as raw material. Any sticky material available in abundant can also be added if required for producing compact and strong briquettes. The cost of each such device made up of iron is less than $8 (USD) or Rs. 400. Various types of stoves are available for using the briquettes, including some of these AVAN and MAGH series stoves can be used. Magh-1 stove with little adoption can also be used for briquettes as fuel. We can also make and use special stoves for the briquettes as fuel. For more details see: http://e-fuelbriquetts.blogspot.com/

Also see http://e-lowcostextruder.blogspot.com/ | http://www.e-geo.org | http://www.goodstove.com

Paal Wendelo has created a pdf of his powerpoint presentation illustrating the comparative wastefulness of traditionally made charcoal compared with his TLUD stove.

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Stove and 1 HP Pelletizer
Brendon Mendonca, Watershed Organisation Trust April 25, 2009

WOTR Stove

Following is the link to our website http://www.wotr.org/renewable_energy.html

WOTR FLAME

WOTR 1 HP Pellet Mill

Brendon mendonca.brendon@gmail.com

New Princeton Report on Climate Impacts of Black Carbon

Princeton University has just published Black Carbon: A Review and Policy Recommendations and Frank Norcross (one of the authors) sent me an early but final copy – you’ll recognize that many of the people acknowledged are from our stove community, with Tami Bonds contributing very obviously throughout. The report ascribes 18% of black carbon (BC) emissions to residential biomass burning (inefficient home coal and petroleum stoves add additionally?), and differentiates between combustion processes’ “organic carbon” and “black carbon” (à la Tami’s and Chris Roden’s presentations at ETHOS) – contained burning has the potential for climate warming via BC while open burning (of forests and savannas) may induce cooling effects because the organic carbon particles scatter sunlight.

Appropriately, the recommendations for reducing the impacts of stoves (Chapter 4) includes the implementation of more efficient ones, with better interventions and monitoring to increase acceptance rates, and clearly demonstrate that they are being used as they are designed to be; as usual we have out job cut out for us. Biochar is discussed as well, as a mitigation measure – assuming that charcoal product is “clean” I expect. Whatever your opinion of the possible present/future impacts of we multiplying humans on climate change, this is excellent reading and a good review of the present knowledge as it pertains stovers.

Figure 1: The second column represents the estimated total contribution (in oC) to global warming since 1750 of BC-containing soot particle; data included through 2006, Jacobson 2004)

Figure 2: Global breakdown of BC emissions by source (adapted from Bond et al, 2004)

Project Surya: Reduction of Air Pollution and Global warming by Cooking with Renewable SourcesV. Ramanathan and K.

HR 1760 Black Carbon Emissions Reduction Act of 2009

formerly American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 March 31, 2009, US House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce

See Bill Attached

f) International Black Carbon Mitigation-

See also HR 1760 <a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-1760">Black Carbon Emissions Reduction Act of 2009

Dear friends,  

www.rocketstove.org  is finally online! And our friend John page from Aprovecho has agreed, at least in the short term, to be the new web administrator.   

Our goal is to make this a practical site. For example the key content that I have right now is the Institutional Rocket stove  design tool that will allow users to  generate a custom set of institutional stove plans (brick and metal)  just by inputting pot size and a few other  key inputs .Ideally this would be the site that users would  turn to for specific plans on how to construct  rocket stoves , bread ovens, dryers kilns etc. If you have content that features step by step stove plans please register and then post them to the site.  (note e: g it might take a day or 2  to approve your registration  as I have to manually  accept each registration ) .  Registered users will eventually be able to  produce their own home page if desired , or just add contact info. Foremost I would appreciate it if we could link your webpage to ours and vice versa.

The second goal of the site is to link people in the stove community by interest and region . For example someone could turn to the site and be linked to stove producers, purchasers and/or researchers in  China, Guatemala,  or Uganda. As the site grows into phase two we will add more functionality (ordering stoves online, visitors donating to specific projects, etc)   but initially I would love to collect as many links and content as possible in the next few weeks for the launching of the site . 

At present this is a volunteer effort , and John and I would appreciate any form of support (financial or otherwise) from the stove community to get this web page up and running. The webpage was only made public last week so we are still very much in our infancy so we appreciate your patience as we smooth out the wrinkles. 

Also, Please feel free to forward this e-mail to anyone you think might be interested. 

Peace 

Peter Scott
Biomass Energy Consultant
cel (USA) : 541 232 7955
skype:rocketmanpeter
cel(Malawi): 265 856 9155
USA address
78590 Echo Hollow Lane
Cottage Grove,OR
97424
USA

This Rocket Stove that is made from 4 cans and can be made by anyone with metal clippers. The efficiency of this stove surpasses any other rocket stove because it heats an unlimited supply of hot water at the same time that it cooks over the fire. Sound to good to be true? Check it out! Here is the link to the YouTube videos. May the world be blessed and thank God for this gift.

http://www.youtube.com/Littlechristgod

Singida Stoves: Searching for Advice on Concrete Stoves Klavs Heeboell, Danish Tanzanian Friendship Association (Dantan), Singida,Tanzania,March 28, 2009

Singida Stoves

At long last a short description with pictures of the kind of stoves on the agenda of Shina Group in corporation with a few members of the Danish Tanzanian Friendship Association (http://dantan.dk). I hope this will do for initial comments and ideas. The aim of the project is as in many developing countries to reduce the use of firewood and minimize smoke in the kitchen thereby improving the health of the cook and her children. We shall be most pleased to receive advice and ideas.

Klavs Heeboell

klavsheeboell@hotmail.com See letter attached with pictures and text.

CONE SHAPED STOVE Khalid ELYOUNSSI, Centre National de la Recherche Forestiere, March 27, 2009

Cone Shaped Stove

This improved cookstove has been developed in the CRF (Centre de Recherche Forestière, Morocco) to respond to a need of fuelwood saving cookstoves in rural areas. The idea behind its conception is to approach the combustion principle in a gas stove. This has been made possible by a cone-shaped combustion chamber. Cookstoves with such conception has not been tested before. See report attached. Khalid ELYOUNSSI Centre National de la Recherche Forestiere Charia Omar Ibn El Khattab, Bp 763, 1050 Agdal Rabat, Morocco Tél:(212) 37 666405 Fax: (212) 37671151 E-mail:k.younssi71@gmail.com