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Biomass Stove Design

Effective cooking stoves share some key design principles. Here we hope to share those with you. Let us know if you find areas we have missed.

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Rocket

  • AVAN STOVE - WOODGAS AND ROCKET STOVE PRINCIPLES

    AVAN STOVE - WOODGAS AND ROCKET STOVE PRINCIPLES
    N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy,GEO GEOECOLOGY ENERGY ORGANISATION, December 30, 2007
    Avan (Earth) StoveAvan (Earth) Stove
    Avan (Earth) Stove http://e-avanstove.blogspot.com/ has the features of both Rocket stove and Woodgas stove. It is made up of 25 nos of ordinary bricks, four bricks with slits, one piece of flat tile, one steel grate 7x7 inches and Clay mixed with cow dung. The approximate cost of construction is $ 2 (USD). All types of biomass can be used as fuel (Sticks / twigs / chips of wood / dry leaves / grass / saw dust / cow dung cakes / paddy husk etc.) and advantage of gravity is used for easy and semi-automatic feeding. Designed by Dr. N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy, GEO -Geoecology Energy Organisation http://www.e-geo.org declared as Creative Commons.

  • Solar Cookers, Efficient Stoves Help Rural Families Worldwide

    Solar Cookers, Efficient Stoves Help Rural Families Worldwide
    Better technology and user marketing attracts help from aid agencies
    Cheryl Pellerin, USINFO Staff Writer, September 12, 2007
    Solar CookerSolar Cooker
    A shopkeeper in Nyakach, Kenya, stands by a solar cooker used for food preparation. (Photo courtesy of Solar Cookers International)

  • AVAN STOVE - WOODGAS AND ROCKET STOVE PRINCIPLES

    AVAN STOVE - WOODGAS AND ROCKET STOVE PRINCIPLES
    N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy,GEO GEOECOLOGY ENERGY ORGANISATION, December 30, 2007
    Avan (Earth) StoveAvan (Earth) Stove
    Avan (Earth) Stove http://e-avanstove.blogspot.com/ has the features of both Rocket stove and Woodgas stove. It is made up of 25 nos of ordinary bricks, four bricks with slits, one piece of flat tile, one steel grate 7x7 inches and Clay mixed with cow dung. The approximate cost of construction is $ 2 (USD). All types of biomass can be used as fuel (Sticks / twigs / chips of wood / dry leaves / grass / saw dust / cow dung cakes / paddy husk etc.) and advantage of gravity is used for easy and semi-automatic feeding. Designed by Dr. N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy, GEO -Geoecology Energy Organisation http://www.e-geo.org declared as Creative Commons.

Solar Cookers

WoodGas

Oil Stove

Protos

Sixbricks

TLUD

Boiler

  • A LOW-COST RICE HUSK GAS STOVE

    A LOW-COST RICE HUSK GAS STOVE
    Alexis Belonio and Djoewito Atmowidjojo, Central Philippines University and Approtech Indonesia, August 30, 2007
    RHStoveRHStove

Briquette Stove

Gasifier

Inkawasi

Steam

  • Pico Hydro power generation calculations

    Pico Hydro power generation calculations
    James F. Hensel, Portland, Oregon USA, June 24, 2007

    In thinking about the Pico Hydro videos, I created the attached spreadsheet. It has two tabs.

Fan

Hydrofan

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