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• Stove Safety Panel at ETHOS - Viewpoints from corporations, standards institutes, and small developers

  Hello stoves community,

  At ETHOS 2009 we held a panel on stove safety, bringing in viewpoints from corporate standards development, national standards certification, and small to medium scale developers. The team led by Nathan Johnson (Iowa State University) included Crispin Pemberton-Pigott (New Dawn Engineering), Casper Thijssen (Philips), and Karabi Dutta.

  The panel gave a comparative analysis of how different stove industries (multinational corporations, medium-scale companies, NGOs, small developers, etc.) addressed fundamental stove safety questions. These topics included:

  a) applicability of standards and regulation;
  b) incentives and benefits
  c) facilities and equipment availability
  d) cost vs. benefit
  e) resulting action

  We determined that each type of industry has a different perspective that influences their path or actions towards a safer stove. And that all sub-industries may not produce safer stoves given the same incentive mechanisms or policies. As such more than one path to safety may be needed to reach the greatest amount of end-users (and producers). The panel ended the discussion with an overview present work in stove safety with recommendations for next steps.

  Please view the attached file for more details. I will be leading a group in 2009 to work on the following: assemble database of injury data, b) analyze incentive mechanisms, cost/ benefit, c) development of lab testing procedures for different stove categories, d) publication of findings/ results, and e) look for partnerships with international agencies to support safer stove design and production.

  Please contact me if you have any questions. There will be more updates to follow. Best,
  Nathan Johnson
  atlas@iastate.edu
  PhD Candidate, Mechanical Engineering, International Development
  Iowa State University

• Natural Draft Gasifier (KKK NDG)

  Natural Draft Gasifier (KKK NDG) Krishna Kumar, Chennai, India, Mar 2004 (pdf)

  Natural Draft Gasifier (KKK NDG)

  Natural Draft Gasifier Fuel Feed
• USING BIOMASS IN KEROSENE STOVE

  

  This is an experiment using biomass in the KEROSENE WICK STOVE. http://e-kerbiostoveexp.blogspot.com/ (for more photographs) The stove was lit at the top using a little amount of biomass soaked in kerosene. The fine holes of 1 to 2 mm located all along the inner and outer frame are useful in achieving very good bluish flames. The flames continued for 30 to 45 minutes duration. Only at the end the performance was bad, the option was that, a lid was used to shut down safely. The fire was very high (Reasons I am not sure). If one does not have enough kerosene, and in emergency one can use the kerosene stoves too with fine wood shavings as fuel. The end product is very good biochar. I am thankful to TOM REED for explaining the functioning of a Kerosene stove, which was the motivation for doing this experiment. http://listserv.repp.org/pipermail/stoves_listserv.repp.org/2009-January...
  Also see http://e-woodgasstovemodified.blogspot.com/

• Low Cost Wood Gas Stove

  Low Cost Wood Gas Stove
  Dr. N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India April 2006

• Development of a Portable"Good Stove"

  Dr. N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy June 2, 2006
  Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
  GEO GEOECOLOGY ENERGY ORGANISATION

  

  Thank you very much and also thanks to all the members for their valuable suggestions on Woodgas Stove and Good Stove. I have recently designed a "Good Stove" - Portable. http://e-goodstoveportable.blogspot.com

• WOODGAS STOVE – A MODIFIED KEROSENE (WICK) STOVE FRAME

  WOODGAS STOVE – A MODIFIED KEROSENE (WICK) STOVE FRAME
  Dr. N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy, February 19, 2007
  GEO GEOECOLOGY ENERGY ORGANISATION

  
• Solar Water Distillation

  Solar Water Distillation
  Anil k Rajvanshi, NARI Phaltan, July 13, 2007

  You might enjoy reading the following work on solar distillation.

  <a href="http://nariphaltan.virtualave.net/dye.pdf

• 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) 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.

• Development of Improved Lanterns

  Development of Improved Lanterns For Rural Areas

• India: IMPROVED COOK- STOVES ; YET TO BE A SUCCESS STORY.

  IMPROVED COOK- STOVES ; YET TO BE A SUCCESS STORY.
  C.V.Krishna, March 11, 2007

• Biomass Briquette Stoves: Nishant Bioenergy (P) Limited

  Biomass Briquette Stoves: Nishant Bioenergy (P) Limited
  Ramesh Kumar Nibhoria, July 2007

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

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

• Current Improved Cookstove (ICS) Activities in South Asia: A Web-based Survey, September 2006

  Current Improved Cookstove (ICS) Activities in South Asia: A Web-based Survey, September 2006
  Breathe Easy Network, Shell Foundation, March 17, 2007

  This is an overview of all the recent cokstove programs which have been or are bing implemented in South Asia.

• Next generation house hold cook stove EARTH STOVE

  Next generation house hold cook stove EARTH STOVE
  Ramesh Kumar Nibhoria, Nishant Bioenergy, April 17, 2007

• Vivek - Burning Millet Husk in a Sawdust Burning Stove

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

• Case–control study of indoor cooking smoke exposure and cataract in Nepal and India

  Case–control study of indoor cooking smoke exposure and cataract in Nepal and India (pdf)
  Amod K Pokhrel,1 Kirk R Smith,1 Asheena Khalakdina,1,2 Amar Deuja3 and Michael N Bates1*

• South Asia Regional Workshop on Indoor Air Pollution, Health and Household Energy

  South Asia Regional Workshop on Indoor Air Pollution, Health and Household Energy
  27-28 February 2006, Kathmandu, Nepal
  Practical Action February 2006

• Swosthee Stove

  Pictures and Drawings of the Swosthee Stove, from Auke Koopmans (Aug 21/98)

  SWOSTHEE

  Single Pan Wood Stove Of High efficiency A Fuel Efficient
  Portable Cookstove,
  Svathi Bhogle

• Swosthee (1988) Portable single-pan wood stoves of high efficiency for domestic use

  Portable single-pan wood stoves of high efficiency for domestic use Swosthee(pdf 2 MB)
  HC Mukunda, U Shrinivasa and S Dasappa, Sadhhana Vol 13, Part 4, December 1988

• World Bank to revolutionise brick making in India

  World Bank to revolutionise brick making in India
  The Hindu News Update Service July 28, 2006

  New Delhi, July 28. (UNI): The World Bank will help Indian companies revolutionise brick making through a novel technology that would make kilns energy efficient and will be manufactured without the use of thermal energy.