Heat Transfer

Big Improvements For Small Cooking Stoves: The Benefits of Heat Recycling
Crispin Pemberton-Pigott, New Dawn Engineering, January 2004

Pema Pot Skit
Jigme Rangdrol June 10, 2006

Pema Pot Skirt

There seems to be actual agreement that pot skirts make combustion stoves better.
It is clear however that the bulk of deployed stoves do not have pot skirts.
Therefore an inexpensive pot skirt that could be made in the third and fourth world for those deployed stoves would have some usefulness.

Heat Losses in a Cook Pot at Constant Temperature (pdf)
Alan Berick, Aprovecho June 10, 2006

Berick Pot

Heat Flux Report January 2006, Dale Andreatta, January 2006

Crispin Pemberton-Pigott, New Dawn Engineering, Swaziland, March 2006

Dear Stove Builders

Getting stove dimensions, particularly pot-stove body clearances, is no simple matter because of the many different considerations that must be resolved simultaneously.