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• Center Fire Stove 01 Cooking Test

  Center Fire Stove 01 Cooking Test
  Lanny Henson, June 12, 2006

  In the last cooking test, the Center Fire Stove 01 needed only 750
  grams/1.65 lb of pine chips to cook 8 pounds/3.63 kilograms dry weight of pintos. That is 14 liters of volume with water or 104 servings-35 gr/ 1/2 cup cooked volume (1/4 cup dry weight) servings.

• Rock and Roll: a simple ball mill

  Jeff Davis June 18, 2006

  In order to make my first batch of fireballs I needed some charcoal fines or dust. I charred some switchgrass and leaves to start with. That would be easy to reduce, but was unsure how to go about this task at hand. Having already removed the paddles from the cement mixer, I got the bright idea to place the switchgrass and leave char in the cement mixer plus one large rock, see picture #1. So I gave it a try, not knowing that there is such a device as a ball mill. I learned fast that a lid was in order! Dust cloud anyone? This worked well for the charred switchgrass.

• 160 grams of charcoal boils and simmers 5 liters/CF04 Stove

  160 grams of charcoal boils and simmers 5 liters/CF04 Stove
  Lanny Henson www.lanny.us July 2, 2006

  The CF04 Stove boiled and simmered 5 liters using only 160gr of charcoal and wood.

  

  After several modifications to 4 different prototypes, it only took 150 gr of lump charcoal with 11% moisture and 10gr of wood to boil 5 liters of 83 degF/28.3 degC water in 45 min. That is 32 grams per liter to boil and simmer. At 1 hour after boiling the water was still simmering at 100 degC and after 2 hours the water was 205degF/96 degC. At this point I shut the air control and capped the pot module to stop the airflow and retain heat.

  At 3 hours the water temp was 190 degF/87.8 degC and was 178 degF/ 81 degC at 4 hours.

• The Bean Can Stove

  The Bean Can Stove
  Lanny Henson, August 28, 2006

  
• PCIA Bulletin Issue 8, August 2006

  PCIA Bulletin Issue 8, August 2006
  Lutfiyeh Ahmed, Elisa Derby, Partnership for Clean Indoor Air

  Dear Partners,
  We have published the 8th issue of the PCIA Bulletin!

• Hybrid Stove Making Charcoal and Pan Cooking Burning Bamboo

  Hybrid Stove Making Charcoal (YouTube)
  Lanny Henson, July 26, 2007

  Biomass cooking stove burns wood to charcoal and saves the charcoal. One pound of wood cooks 6 kilos of rice and makes 65 grams of char.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGXv7buNUMY

  Hybrid Stove Burning Bamboo Pan Cooking

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIsNZHSkX8k

  Here is another 3 min video of the Hybrid Stove burning bamboo chips and pan cooking eggs.
  Bamboo chips burns well in the Side Supply Burner but the pan only reached medium heat.
  The heat from the burner seems to be diffusing and bypassing the pan. Enough heat is being generated by the burner but the pan module lacks focus.
  Suggestions to fix pan module?

  Lanny

• Drying Fuel - Discussion

  Below you will find an interesting discussion, concerning the drying of fuel,
  that was on the gasification list.

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  Greg Manning wrote:
  The Drying Process I use is simple, the sun and an inclined sheet of heavy
  wire screen mounted in a large tiltable frame, chips are loaded onto the
  screen, screen is inclined, and about 3 hours later, the chips start to
  slide, or tumble down (moisture released, they are now lighter in mass, and
  slide down),

• Urban Justa Stove Building Workshop in San Francisco

  Urban Justa Stove Building Workshop in San Francisco
  Charlie Sellers, July 29, 2008

  Sebastian Africano was just through the SF Bay area, building stoves on his way to Stove Camp, and I added this post on his workshop to my evolving IAP site:

  http://iapstoves.blogspot.com/2008/07/justa-building-workshop-in-san.html

• Green Pail/Hot Bucket Retained Heat Cooker

  “How-To Designs” and Lanny Henson presents,
  The “Green Pail”/“Hot Bucket” Retained Heat Cooker.
  April 20, 2008
  

• Wood Pellet Camping and Biofuel Stove

  Wood Pellet Camping ad Biofuel Stove
  Deris Jeneatte, Cleardome Solar, april 2008

  Here's a stove and solar appliances for the camping set. Some concepts may apply to cooking stoves.
  http://home.att.net/~cleardomesolar/pelletcampstove.html

• CSU: Graduate Student Opportunity

  CSU Graduate Student Opportunity
  Patcrick McGoldrick, Global Innovation Center for Energy, Environment & Health
  Colorado State University, CSU, Fort Collins,CO March 14, 2007

• Measurements of Indoor Pollutant Emissions From EPA Phase II Wood Stoves.

  Measurements of Indoor Pollutant Emissions From EPA Phase II Wood Stoves. (3451 K)
  Nabinger, S. J.; Persily, A. K.; Sharpless, K. S.; Wise, S. A. Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Gaithersburg, MD 20899, NISTIR 5575; 65 p. February 1995

• The Human Body Engine

  Information in regards to how much power a person can produce.
  People power, not horsepower.
  What is your capacity for work?

• Pond Scum Fireball; part 2

  Pond Scum Fireball Part II
  Jeff Davis September 10, 2006

  Picture #27
• Pond Scum Fireball; part 1

  Picture #26
• One (Pop) Can Stove

  One (Pop) Can Stove, John Frimenko, Columbia, Pa, December 2005

  Nine Top-Lit UpDraft (T-LUD) Gasification Advances of 2005

  Nine Top-Lit UpDraft (T-LUD) Gasification Advances of 2005

  A presentation at the ETHOS 2006 conference by:

  Refugee Stoves - Stoves for Displaced Persons

  Improved cookstoves are used for diplaced persons in Ethopia, Darfur, Uganda and for Hurricane or Flood Victims.

  Ytong: Insulative blocks of Autoclaved Aerated Concrete

  Ytong: Insulative blocks of Autoclaved Aerated Concrete, Ken Goyer, Turkey, Aprovecho Research Institute, November 2005
  

• Burning charcoal- UMC-CH1 Charcoal Burner Module

  Burning charcoal- UMC-CH1 Charcoal Burner Module
  Lanny Henson May 13 2006