Servals Hybrid Pressure Stovei
and Venus Energy Efficient Stoves
Rajan Philip, Servals Automation Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, India, July 2008 (Rev August 21, 2008)
Servals Hybrid Stove
Servals Hybrid Stove

Please visit www.servalsgroup.blogspot.com for more details.

P. Mukundan (098403 56578)
Managing Director
Servals Automation Pvt. Ltd.,
5/1 Balaji Nagar, 1st Street,
Eekatuthangal, Chennai - 600 032.
Tamil Nadu, India
Ph: 044 - 64577181 / 182
Fax: 044 - 45540339
Email: servalsmds@gmail.com / saplmds@gmail.com
Please visit www.servalsgroup.blogspot.com for more details.

Posted July 26, 2008
"Probably you could try the Hybrid Pressure Stovei developed by Servals Automation at Chennai, India. This stove uses 30 % vegetable oil and 70 % kerosene - kept in separate tanks. The stove is designed to use Straight Vegetable Oili ( ie. no processing involved ). The stove was developed under my guidance. Rajan Philip rajan_jiby@dataone.in

Organisation Profile :

Servals Automation Pvt. Ltd. is a part of Servals Group of four decades experience.

Servals Specialize in manufacturing socially relevant products motivated by Rural Innovation Network –a NGO specializing in incubating and networking rural innovators. http://www.rinovations.org/Innovations

Servals manufacture RAIN GUN –a mega sprinkler used for water management in irrigation and dust abatement and Energy Efficient Kerosene Stove\ Burners.

Servals are assisted by AAVISHKAAR INDIA Micro –Venture Capital fund have their Manufacturing base at Chennai India .

Venus Energy Efficient Stoves manufactured by SERVALS won an International Award in a competition held by Paraffin Safety Association in South Africa .

Venus Burners because of their special features are now used by many Original Equipment manufacturers in India .

http://www.tntdpc.com/Tsmes/servals.php

Save80i Stove inCDM and Refugee/IDPi Projects 2005-2008
July 2008

See also, UNHCR: Save80 in Darfur February 2008

Finding trees in the Desert:Firewood Collection and Alternatives in Darfur Women's Commission for Refugees and Children 2006

Beyond Firewood Fuel Alternatives and Protection Strategies for Displaced Women and Girls 2006

Internal Displacement Monitoring Center2008
Update on Chad November2007
CDMi Cookstove Project Soutwest Sulawesi 1
LHL/DARE Efficient Wood Fuel Cooking Stovesfor Nigeria CDMi Project

Build an Improved Cookstove EASE Vietnam,June 30, 2008
This video is published under Vietnam EASE Programme which stands for Enabling Access to Sustainable Energy. The video is product of Improved Cookstove Market Development Project implemented by Research Center for Energy and Environment (RCEE) and Center for Population Environment and Development (PED). The video was recorded in an on-job training in Thai Nguyen province.
1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kfowAQUgd0
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xZ072NLcBQ&feature=related
3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEVG7mVmgio&feature=related
4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-DLc0eGakM&feature=related

Cookstove System Save80i
LUSAKA SUSTAINABLE ENERGY PROJECT and COOK STOVE PROJECT KUPANG
Climate Interchange AG,Garching/Munich, Germany, July 2008
Cookstove Save80i

Prakti Designii Lab, Pondicherry, India
Mouhsine Serrar, Director, July 2008
Prakti Designii Lab

MJA Biomass Gas Stove
Alexis Belonio, July 23, 2008
MJA Biomass Gas Stove Burning Coal

Alexis Belonio writes (edited and annotated by Paul Anderson and Tom Miles):

Attached is a picture of my latest coal gasifier stove. This
is the same basic TLUDi stove I have for wood charcoal and wood chunks.

For domestic use, I use carbonized coal (or coke) as fuel instead
of the raw coal. Coal can be used for the stove, but we don't want to promote
this as a fuel since it emits poisonous gas. I would prefer to use coal for
industry application where gas can be cleaned before it is released to the
atmosphere.

I provide only a small amount of coal fuel in the gasifier stove, enough
for cooking. This mean that the power output is only small and the
metal I use is a stainless steel.

I ignite the carbonized coal by using a wood charcoal that has been soaked in
kerosene as igniter. [This is a TLUDi stove, so ignition is at the top.]

[In the Belonio TLUDs, the fan only blows the primary air. The
secondary air is
pre-heated as it rises naturally between the fuel cylinder and the outer
cylinder, finally exiting into the rising flow of combustible gases.]
The smoke in the coal gasifier I have was eliminated [combusted] by mixing
preheated air with the gas generated from the reactor. I think
there is no need of [forced] mixing the secondary air by creating turbulence
with the combustible gases. Because in that case, you will need a
slightly bigger fan with enough pressure to push the air.
MJ Biomass Gas Stove

Alexis Belonio
atbelonio@yahoo.com

BPi Pellet Stove in India
Roger Samson, July 2008

A Small Stove With Big Ambitions
A $17 stove could reduce carbon emissions and improve women’s health in India, Margot Cohen, YaleGlobal, 7 April 2008
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=10610

This is great 4 minute video

http://www.netroadshow.com/custom/bp/bpflv3.asp?cf=053008b

"FACTORS INFLUENCING COMMUNITY ADOPTION OF GOOD STOVES" is a paper written based on my experience and referring to literature.

Manually-operated biomass pelletizer - clay as a binder?
Charlie Sellers, May 10, 2008
Honeycomb Coal

Technology Packages: Screw-press briquetting machines and briquette-fired stoves
S.C. Bhattacharya, Coordinator RETs in Asia, 1997-2004, April 5, 2008

RET Asiai Briquetting