"FACTORS INFLUENCING COMMUNITY ADOPTION OF GOOD STOVES" is a paper written based on my experience and referring to literature.

Manually-operated biomass pelletizer - clay as a binder?
Charlie Sellers, May 10, 2008
Honeycomb Coal

Technology Packages: Screw-press briquetting machines and briquette-fired stoves
S.C. Bhattacharya, Coordinator RETs in Asia, 1997-2004, April 5, 2008

RET Asiai Briquetting

Coconut fiber Stove, Biomass Shredder and Pelletizer

Alexis Belonio, University of the Phillipines, May, 2008

Cocopeat Pelletizer

Assessing Cook Stove Performance: Field and Lab Studies of Three Rocket Stoves Comparing the Open Fire and Traditional Stoves in Tamil Nadu, India on Measures of Time to Cook, Fuel Use, Total Emissions, and Indoor Air Pollution
Nordica MacCarty, Dean Still, Damon Ogle, Thomas Drouin, Aprovechoi Research Center, January 2008

Improved Cooking Stoves in Bangladesh
April 20, 2008

Following are some links to improved cooking stoves in Bangladesh.

Making Rocket Stoves in China
Dean Still, Aprovechoi Research Center, March 28, 2008

Hi Stovers!

A lot of the folks on the List saw the Rocket stoves that we are making in China at ETHOSi. John Page and I just spent ten days at the factory near Shanghai. Here’s a quick update on the China project.

The big news is that the lightweight, refractory ceramic combustion chambers are now being extruded at the rate of about one thousand per day. You can imagine that John and Dean were grinning ear to ear, watching the materials being mixed three times in the big grinders. When thoroughly mixed, the clay is extruded into the combustion chamber shape, pushed by a 100HP motor, and every twenty seconds or so, another combustion chamber is ready for drying. (There are photos of all this.) Drying takes about 30 days and then firing takes place in the huge coal fired kiln, as big as a supermarket. I think that we can fire about 20,000 combustion chambers at one go. The kiln is being fired and emptied simultaneously. The clay deposit is located one kilometer from the kiln.

The cast iron stove top was adjusted; raising the pot supports two millimeters, after further emission testing in the lab showed a reduction in COi and PMi with a little higher clearance.

We have the first order for a container of stoves, which is going to India. The factory has arranged for a good set up price (about $600) for the packaging. The six sided box can be printed in the local language with desired designs and logos.

We are investigating shipping costs to and duties for all countries. There are different duties for whole stoves and for stove parts. We’re going to write up our experience and send it around to everyone, bit by bit, trying to share what we learn from this project.

You can contact me for the stove catalog, questions, etc…

All Best,

Dean
Aprovechoi Research Center
www.aprovecho.org
541-767-0287 Oregon, USA
dstill@epud.net

New Factory Under Construction

Asia Industrial and Institutional Stove Compendium
FAOi 2001

Foreword

Sri Lanka: Terracotta One Pot (TOP) ICS Prototype Stove
Sjoerd Nienhuys, Hilversum, The Netherlands, February 15, 2008
Terracotta One Pot (TOP)
Please find attached a paper Sjoerd Nienhuys made on the ICS pottery stove he developed for northern Sri Lanka after the tsunami.

GEOi ENERGY POSTERS
N.Sai Bhaskar Reddy, Geoecology Energy Organization(GEOi) Energy, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, February 3, 2008

GEO ENERGY POSTERS

LINKS FOR FULL SIZE POSTERS

1. COMMUNITY ADAPTATION OF GOOD STOVES

2. WOODGAS STOVE - HOW TO USE?

3. ENERGY AND LIVELIHOODS

4. GOOD STOVE CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION

5. GOOD STOVES CLASSIFICATION

6. PROCESS OF COMMUNITY ADOPTION OF GOOD STOVES