This page exists to help people involved in the development of a better stove for cooking with biomass fuels in developing regions.A discusion of this issue is occurring on the Stoves Mailing List. Link to Archive
List Moderators are Ron Larson (ronallarson@qwest.net) and
Elsen L. Karstad (elk@wananchi.com www.chardust.com)
If you have relevant information or pictures please send it to CREST, so we can post it through this site, and share it with other interested folks.
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| Lanny Henson
lanny@roman.net October 21, 2002 |
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Lanny's Simple Camp Fire Stove |
| Arnt Karlsen
arnt@c2i.net |
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Arnt's Gasifier
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| José Fernando Martirena Hernández
f.martirena@enet.cu October 8, 2002 |
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Solid Fuel Block from Waste Biomass in Cuba |
| Jan Cap
capjan@vol.cz October 8 2002 |
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Wood gas cooker from China |
| Crispin
crispin@newdawn.sz September 6 2002 |
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BASINTUTHU STOVE TEST
The Basintuthu Stove (pronounced baa-sin-doo-too, "makes fire from smoke") is a stove designed to burn small diameter wood and twigs efficiently, combining preheated primary air, preheated secondary air and secondary combustion. This means that nearly all the available heat contained within the biomass fuel can be liberated. It also means there there is less smoke, particulate matter and Carbon Monoxide (CO) emitted, compared with most other stoves and open fires. |
| Matthew Owen
owen@africaonline.co.ke August 2002 |
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Making Bamboo Charcoal in Lampang |
| Andrew Heggie
andrew.heggie@dtn.ntl.com June 2002 |
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Using Excess Air: Experiments With A Steam Aspirator |
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GTZ Uganda emma@george.as July 18 2002 |
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| Improved 3 Stone Stove | ||
| Dean Still
dstill@epud.net June 17 2002 |
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with Baldwin sheet metal skirt around partially submerged pot. Dead air space helps to isolate thermal mass from the fire. 29% efficient. This simple Rocket stove was fabricated and developed with help from Damon Ogle and Jim Wilmes, students at a Aprovecho stove class, beginning June 10, 2002. |
| Prototype Ecuadorian earthen stove | ||
| Dean Still
dstill@epud.net June 6 2002 |
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| Pete Cooking | ||
| Rogeria Miranda
rmiranda@sdnnic.org.ni May 6 2002 |
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PROLEÑA's promotion of Ecostove in a public fair in Nicaragua under a USAID project |
PROLEÑA's Ecostove factory in Managua, Nicaragua with capacity to produce 100 Ecostoves per week. | |
| Dean Still
dstill@epud.net April 27 2002 |
"Rocket" style submerged pot Uganda Stove |
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| Richard Stanley
rstanley@legacyfound.org May 2002 |
Legacy Foundation activities in technology innovation: |  |
| Dean Still
dstill@epud.net "Rocket" style Cacao Bean Dryer USAID/Winrock
March 2002 |
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| Dean Still
dstill@epud.net Rocket stove with griddle designed with DonO'Neal for HELPS International in Guatemala March 2002 |
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| Peter Verhaart
pverhaart@mail.optusnet.com.au Downdraft Barbeque |
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| Jeff Forsell
JEFF.FORSSELL@ssvh.se |
Please criticize this plan for a Rocket elbow type stove (See description) 2/04/02 |
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| Tom Reed
Reedtb2@cs.com |
I'm attaching a picture of our development model of the woodgas campstove gas flames.
2/02/2002 See Also: |
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| Paul S. Anderson
psanders@ilstu.edu January 2002 February 2002
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| Dean Still
dstill@epud.net
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| Dean Still
Richard Henya's Rocket Stove, Kenya 01/26/2002 |
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NEWS
Stephen Gitonga The Energy Ladder October 2002
José Fernando Martirena Hernández Solid Fuel Block from Waste Biomass in Cuba October 2002
Emma George A Comparison of Wood Burning Cookstoves for Uganda, August 2002
Damon Ogle Rocket Stoves - Controlling Draft, August 17, 2002
Damon Ogle Rocket Stoves In Search of Higher Temperatures, July 2002
Kirk Smith Short Primer on Stove Efficiency, May 4, 2002
Dean Still, ETHOS Website,
Engineers in Technical, Humanitarian Opportunities of Service, April 2002
Evans Kituyi Bioenergy Africa, February 2, 2002
International Conference on Biomass-based Fuels and Cooking Systems, (BFCS-2000): A Report, Dr. Priya Karve
A few images from the conference.
Contributions from some of the Stoves mailing list's participants
Most were submited as an aid to discussions which occured on the list.
- Juntos Stove Testing (Feb 21, 2002)
- Juntos Stove, Modified Rocket Stove (Jan 31, 2002)
- PROLEÑA's Ecostove (May 2002)
- Prolena.htm
- Two Days at the Appropriate Rural Technology Institute Field Research Station in Phaltan, India Working with Hemant Mahajan (ARTI Engineer, with the white cap) to demonstrate charcoal production using Top-Down pyrolysis and off-gas combustion. ( Nov 28-29, 2000) Alex English english@kingston.net
- The Bigtop Pyrolyser Temperature Profile, (Oct 20, 20000) Alex English english@kingston.net
- The Bigtop 50 kilowatt wood pellet gasifier / charcoal maker (Sept 27, 2000), Alex English
- Pyrolyser with Horizontal Burner Alex English March 24, 2000
- Clean combustion of pyrolisis gasses while making charcoal with wood pellets.(March 25/99)
- Summary of one afternoon of tests done on a down draft wood boiler. (March 25/99)
- Drawing and Pictures of the arrangement used to turn a drum full of dry wood into charcoal while burning off the noxious gasses. Alex English (July 12/ 98)
- Flaring Gasses While Making Charcoal, from Alex English(July 3/98)
- Fruit Drier Heat Exchanger
- Testing Stoves With a Vent Hood (Dec 18/97)
- Alex English's University Test Burner (Oct 14/97)
- Venturi Gasifier Test.(Sept 18/97)
- The Curvacious Charcoal Making Wood Gas Burning Stove (AE's latest test, Sept 11/97)
- Alex English's Latest Experiment (Aug 1/97)
- Picture of the swirl inducing add on for the venturi shown above
- Cut away view of swirl inducing add on
- Drawing and discription of the venturi burner.
- Mamou Fuelwood Cookstove
- Swosthee Stove
- Chimney Draft Chart
- Drawing of a device for Activating Charcoal (Nov 18, 99)
- Recent News about The Dona Justa Stove
- and more, from Aprovecho (Jan 25,2000)
- Rocket Elbow Stove (Feb 2, 2002)
- The Winiarski Rocket Stove (Feb 4,2002)
- Link to Rocket Page
- A Comparison of Wood-Burning Cookstoves for Uganda: Testing and Development (pdf 400k), August 2002, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, GTZ
- Woodstoves for Uganda, June 2002
- The Energy Ladder October 2002
- John Gulland's Visit to Honduras (Jan 6/1999)[Missing]
- COST ESTIMATES FOR A ‘DREAM STOVE’ FOR ASIA PROF. P. D. GROVER (Oct15, 99)
- Charcoal Plant from Dr Yury Yudkevitch (March 26/99)
- Making Charcoal, from Dr Yury Yudkevitch(July 3/98)
- Dr Jury Judkevitch's Polykor Furnace (March 6, 98)
- Dr. Jury Judevitch variation on the Wood-Gas Cook Stove (March 3,98)
- Drawing of Charcoal Fired Water Heater, from Elsen Karstad (July19,2000)
- Elsen Karstad's Charcoal Briquetteing Equiptment (March 3/99)
- Photos of the 6-Drum Sawdust Carboniser taken on 11/11/98. by Elsen Karstad
- Carbonizing Charcoal and Briquetting, from Elsen Karstad (July3/98)
- The World's Formost Authority on the One Can Stoves (July2/98)
- Pictures of Elsen Karstad's Sawdust Carbonizing Experiments.(March 31/98)
- Pictures of Elsen Karstads Stove (Oct 31/97)
- Elsen Karstad's Charcoal Making Wood Gas Cooking Stove (Oct 2/97)
- Elsen Karstad's Charcoal Making Wood Gas Cooking Stove (Sept 19/97)
- Pictures of Elsen Karstad's Version of the Two Can Charcoal Making Stove
- Pictures of Elsen Karstad's Briquetting Machine
- Turning Sawdust into Charcoal, in Malaysia (June 23/98)
- Drawings and Discription of the Thermette Water Heater (Aug 31/98)
- Pictures and Drawings of the Swosthee Stove (Aug 19/98)
Jose Fernando Martirena Hernandez
- Solid Fuel Block Out of Waste Biomass. The Cuba Case March 2002
- Waste to energy Technologies Targetting the Poor. The Cuba Case Study July 2002
- Rocket Stoves - Controlling Draft, August 17, 2002
- Ceramic Stove Tests Aprovecho July 2002
- Clean Combuston of Wood by A.M. Hasan and R Khan (1991)
(Please Note: This link contains about 600Kbs, and will load slowly. On my machine it loads faster, in aproximately 3 minutes, than I can read it's 34 pages.)
- Woodgas Stove Flame, Tom Reed (February 2, 2002)
- Two Papers on The Turbo Stove , Tom Reed (July 31,99)
- Picture of the Inverted Downdraft Wood Gas Stove-- Tom Reed and Ronal Larson [Missing]
- Drawing of the IDD Wood Gas Stove
- A Wood-Gas Stove for Developing Countries by Tom Reed and Ronal Larson
- Background on the "Inverted Downdraft Gasifier" by Tom Reed
- Short Primer on Stove Efficiency, May 4, 2002
- GREENHOUSE GASES FROM SMALL-SCALE COMBUSTION DEVICES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: PHASE IIA: HOUSEHOLD STOVES IN INDIA
- GREENHOUSE GASES FROM SMALL-SCALE COMBUSTION DEVICES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: Phase III: Charcoal Kilns in Thailand
- Overview of the Indian National Burden of Disease from Indoor Air Pollution Kirk R. Smith (July 12/98)
Agro Residue Fuel Briquettes, (May 12, 2001)
- Legacy Foundation micro-enterprise-based briquetting technology
- Images 2
- Resources of Cusco
- Chimney and Airfeed Effect
- Stove Retrofits
- Chaqilccasa's Solar Drier
- Prototype Ecuadorian Earthen Stove (June 17, 2002)
- South Africa Two Sunken Pot Rocket Stove With Oven, (June 6, 2002)
- ETHOS Website, Engineers in Technical, Humanitarian Opportunities of Service, April 2002
- Rocket Style Uganda Stove (April 27, 2002)
- Wood Fired Cacao Dryer in Nicaragua (March 4, 2002)
- HELPS International Rocket Stove (March 2002)
- Lanny's Rocket Wok (January 27, 2002)
- Lanny's Rocket Wok II
- Lanny's Rocket Wok Top
- Richard Henya, Kenya, (January 26, 2002) with Liner, Complete Stove
- Image of a Rocket stove made from pumice. Dean Still (March18, 2001)
- Image of a Rocket Griddle Stove, Dean Still (April 1, 2001)
- Downdraft Barbeque, Peter Verhaart (Feb 7,99), (Feb 5, 2002) Water Boiler Tests (Mar 6, 2002)
- Australian Outback Coffee Maker, from Piet Verhart (Aug 16/98)
- The file Charst.jpg is a picture of my version of the Larson - Reed Charcoal producing stove. In order to limit heat loss I made an insert (the ganvanised pipe on the left). The next file Csvalve.fpg is a detail of the bottom valve to admit air through the bottom of the stove.
- The Jak stove (I thought of it while in Jakarta and it has a movable bottom which is jacked up as the fuel burns up) (Feb 2002).
- Claudio Sbaraglia's picture of a charcoal kiln, (Feb 1/99)
- About Maintenance and Functioning of Kerosene Pressure Lamps, Jeff Forsell
- Chardust
- Coconut Shell Charcoal, Coconut Development Board, India
- Aprovecho Research Center
- Regional Wood Energy Development Program
- Masonry Heater Association Library
- Burning Charcoal Issues
- Estufa Plancha Masons on a Mission, Patrick Manley/Guatemala Stove Project, Tom Clarke
- ARECOP - Asia Regional Cookstove Program and Glow Magazine
- Improved Stove Selection and Dissemination: Asia Regional Training of Trainers Workshop - Regional Wood Energy Development Program in Asia
- Development and Implementation of ICS Programmes RWEDP-ARECOP
- HEDON Household Energy Network, Grant Ballard-Tremeer
- Household Energy & Agenda 21
- Emissions of Rural Wood-Burning Cooking Devices Grant Ballard-Tremeer
- Study on Improved Institutional Biomass Cooking Stoves S C Bhattacharya
- Indoor Air Pollution
- Prof. Kirk R. Smith UC Berkeley, CA, US
- Lowering Exposure of Children to Indoor Air Pollution to Prevent Acute Respiratory Infection Environmental Health Project (pdf)
- Pellet Fuels Institute
- Hearth Net
- Ovencrafters, Alan Scott
- Intermediate Technology Group Latin America
- The Masonry Heater Association of North America 2001 Annual Meeting
Chambers Stoves
_________________________________________________________________________________Thanks to Alex English for creating this site. Edited October 13, 2002 by Tom Miles