Improved Biomass Cooking Stoves

Uso Eficiente de la Leña: El caso ECOFOGON de Nicaragua
María Engracia De Trinidad (prolena.renovable@sdnnic.org.ni), PROLEÑA,18 y 19 de Marzo, 2004

Cookstove System Save80
LUSAKA SUSTAINABLE ENERGY PROJECT and COOK STOVE PROJECT KUPANG
Climate Interchange AG,Garching/Munich, Germany, July 2008
Cookstove Save80

Prakti Design Lab, Pondicherry, India
Mouhsine Serrar, Director, July 2008
Prakti Design Lab

Introduction to Gold Standard/Carbon Credits
Dean Still, Nordica MacCarty, Aprovecho Research Center, July 23, 2008
Gold Standard

There has been a lot of interest recently in carbon credit financing for improved stove projects. Since 2006, stove organizations have begun to receive funding from carbon credits. The Gold Standard has just published a set of protocols formalizing how stove projects can prove the lowering of emissions. Large financial institutions, like Climate Care/JP Morgan, are now participating in the relatively new market.

MJA Biomass Gas Stove
Alexis Belonio, July 23, 2008
MJA Biomass Gas Stove Burning Coal

Alexis Belonio writes (edited and annotated by Paul Anderson and Tom Miles):

Attached is a picture of my latest coal gasifier stove. This
is the same basic TLUD stove I have for wood charcoal and wood chunks.

For domestic use, I use carbonized coal (or coke) as fuel instead
of the raw coal. Coal can be used for the stove, but we don't want to promote
this as a fuel since it emits poisonous gas. I would prefer to use coal for
industry application where gas can be cleaned before it is released to the
atmosphere.

I provide only a small amount of coal fuel in the gasifier stove, enough
for cooking. This mean that the power output is only small and the
metal I use is a stainless steel.

I ignite the carbonized coal by using a wood charcoal that has been soaked in
kerosene as igniter. [This is a TLUD stove, so ignition is at the top.]

[In the Belonio TLUDs, the fan only blows the primary air. The
secondary air is
pre-heated as it rises naturally between the fuel cylinder and the outer
cylinder, finally exiting into the rising flow of combustible gases.]
The smoke in the coal gasifier I have was eliminated [combusted] by mixing
preheated air with the gas generated from the reactor. I think
there is no need of [forced] mixing the secondary air by creating turbulence
with the combustible gases. Because in that case, you will need a
slightly bigger fan with enough pressure to push the air.
MJ Biomass Gas Stove

Alexis Belonio
atbelonio@yahoo.com

Welcome to Boiling Point number 55, which is now available to read on the website of the HEDON Household Energy Network. This issue of Boiling Point addresses the theme of "Monitoring and Evaluation" and as well as the usual great articles we've changed the format a little and introduced two new features - a case study and a toolkit.

Read it online here: www.hedon.info/BoilingPoint55-June2008

The journal is produced by Eco Ltd with financial and editorial support from Practical Action and GTZ. This issue is also kindly supported by GVEP International.

==SYNOPSIS==
The theme of this edition is the effective Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of household energy projects. While often neglected, M&E is a critical component of any project as it allows a practitioner to measure the success of an intervention, whether in technical, social, economic, environmental or political terms, so that they can learn from the indicator results to improve future work.

GASIFIER COAL STOVE
John Davies, South Africa April 2003, New Photos October 2003,
Using the Stove, June 2008
Components and Construction June, 2008

Kettle simmering. No visible smoke (April 2003)	Top lit Demo (April 2003)
With Reflective Stand and safety Guard (October 2003)	(October 2003)

BP Pellet Stove in India
Roger Samson, July 2008

A Small Stove With Big Ambitions
A $17 stove could reduce carbon emissions and improve women’s health in India, Margot Cohen, YaleGlobal, 7 April 2008
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/small-stove-big-ambitions

This is great 4 minute video

http://www.netroadshow.com/custom/bp/bpflv3.asp?cf=053008b

La primera causa de consulta médica son las enfermedades respiratorias, de las cuales se conoce poco, pero generan alta morbimortalidad. Sólo el enfisema pulmonar es la cuarta causa mundial de muerte y, aunque ya es un grave problema de salud pública, representa apenas el inicio de una epidemia de padecimientos asociados a la exposición a contaminantes como el humo del tabaco, advirtió Rogelio Pérez Padilla, director general del Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias (INER).

Recién llegado al cargo, el neumólogo planteó como una deficiencia del sistema nacional de salud y de los especialistas en enfermedades respiratorias, en particular, el desconocimiento de la población respecto de estas afecciones. Por eso, dijo, el presupuesto para esta área médica es insuficiente; lo mismo ocurre con los profesionales de la salud dedicados a la prevención, diagnóstico y control de los padecimientos respiratorios.

El pasado 1º de julio, Pérez Padilla asumió la dirección del INER, cargo para el que resultó electo luego del proceso de consulta y auscultación efectuado por la junta de gobierno del instituto. El funcionario es investigador nacional, autor de libros, de artículos en revistas científicas y director de tesis de especialidad, maestría y doctorado.

–¿Qué se debe hacer con el INER?

–Sobre todo acelerar su desarrollo. Aunque existe desde 1936 como hospital para enfermos de tuberculosis, los cambios más importantes han sido a partir de 1982, cuando se convirtió en instituto. Es el principal centro de enseñanza de enfermedades respiratorias de México y Centroamérica, y todavía debemos elevar el nivel del entrenamiento de especialista a estándares internacionales.

–¿Qué tan importantes son las enfermedades respiratorias?