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Commercialisation of Improved Biomass Fuels and Cooking Devices in India: Scale Up Project

Pioneering projects from Bangladesh, India, Mexico and Tanzania win first prizes in the worlds leading green energy awards
Second prize winners from Cambodia, China, India and southern Africa are awarded £10,000 each for their winning work

Vivek - Burning Millet Husk in a Sawdust Burning Stove
A.D.Karve, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute, Pune, Inda, April 2006

Briquetted Charcoal from Sugarcane Trash
Apropriate Rural Technology Institute, Pune, India 2006

Compact Biogas Plant
AD Karve, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute, Pune, India April 2005

SARAI STAINLESS STEEL STEAM COOKER

AD Karve January 2003, REV 2006

Sarai is a stainless steam steam cooker. It is a non-pressurised cooker, into which you put about 150 ml of water and then lower into it a wire cage, which holds three cookpots, one on top of another. The steam pot has a lid which is kept closed while the food is being cooked. The heat is provided by a charcoal burner, which is designed to hold just 100 g of charcoal or a single honeycomb briquette of 100 g. After the coal has caught fire, the steam pot containing the food to be cooked is placed on the stove.

Appropriate Rural Technology Institute, Pune, India

• ARTI Charcoal and Honeycomb Briquettes, Nov 2002
• Low Cost Charcoal Without Wood (April 2002) Ashden Award
• Field Research Station, Phaltan

ARTI Videos in Compressed AVI Format (HEDON) Sugar Cane Charcoal Briquettes (15 MB) and Bamboo (23 MB), ADKarve, ARTI July 2004