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Biomass Cooking Fuels

Often, cooking stoves solutions are limited by the type of fuel that is readily available to the people using it. These pages group, and list information about stoves and fuel processing by the type of fuel used.

Use the fuels menu to narrow the list of stories to the fuels specific to your interest and application.

Biogas

Coal

  • SMALL-SCALE INDUSTRY COAL GASIFIER STOVE FOR FRYING FOOD PRODUCTS

    SMALL-SCALE INDUSTRY COAL GASIFIER STOVE FOR FRYING FOOD PRODUCTS
    Alexis Belonio, Daniel Belonio, Franciscus Tria Garleman, and Djoewito Atmowidjojo
    Minang Jordanindo Approtech, Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia, November 2008

    Coal Stove
    Coal Stove

    The cost of frying food products for small-scale industry bake shop is now becoming expensive brought about by the ever-increasing cost of LPG fuel. Based on the experience of Sakura Ampan Bakeshop in Jakarta Pusat, Indonesia, a single-burner gas stove consumes about 2.2 kilogram of LPG per hour. With the present cost of LPG of IDR 350,000.00 per 50-kg tank, the bakeshop is spending around IDR 15,400.00 per hour for cooking and/or frying food products. For 8 hours operation per day, around IDR 123,200.00 is spent for its cooking/frying activities using LPG.

    Coal, which is abundant in supply and so far the cheapest of the fuels available in Indonesia, is the only alternative fuel to LPG that is considered economical and feasible for small-scale industry use. However, the emission of sulfur dioxide (SO2), which is the predominant reason for the unacceptability of this fuel among households, makes the use of coal unpopular for industry application. Nevertheless, this problem is now resolved by gasification. Injecting lesser amount of air to the coal bed during gasification in the stove greatly reduced the amount of SO2 emission as compared with the conventional direct combustion burning of fuel. By gasification, coal can be conveniently used with almost no SO2 emission during cooking.

  • INVERTED-DOWNDRAFT COAL GASIFIER FOR SMALLSCALE INDUSTRY THERMAL APPLICATION

    INVERTED-DOWNDRAFT COAL GASIFIER FOR SMALL SCALE INDUSTRY THERMAL APPLICATION
    Alexis Belonio, Daniel Belonio, Fraciscus Tria Garleman, Bima Tahar, and Djoewito Atmowidjojo
    Minang Jordanindo Approtech, November 2008

    Coal Gasifier
    Gasifier With Jet Burner

    Fuel source for small-scale industry heating application is becoming expensive. This is more so for food, grain, and other processing industries in Indonesia where the energy sources for various processes are highly dependent on conventional fuel. At present, the cost of LPG went up to IDR 7,000 per kg while kerosene and diesel to as high as IDR 12,000 and IDR 5,500 per liter, respectively.

Biomass

  • MAGH CM-II NATURAL DRAFT T-LUD WOODGAS STOVE

    Magh CM-II http://e-maghcm-ii.blogspot.com/ natural draft woodgas stove http://e-maghcm-ii.blogspot.com/, it is a very low-cost stove for heating and generating charcoal. It can also be described as a mini-charcoal making metal kiln. Instead of incinerating biomass generated from home gardens / any other dry combustible material generated as household waste usually throw into the garbage bins, can be used here. The leaf litter, dry twigs / sticks, chips of wood, wood shavings, etc., are very much suitable.

Briquette

  • Introducing Greenie-

    Introducing Greenie©
    For a Greenie-er Happier, Healthier Gambia
    George Riegg, Paper Recycling Skills Project, Serekunda, The Gambia October 12, 2008
    GreenieGreenie

    Every cause needs a champion and our environment deserves the best. Especially in a society where over 65 % of the population have to live below the official minimum income subsistence threshold “ Environmental protection “ can be a very complex and abstract issue but as soon as we introduce a personal and human element we create a focal point for all to understand.

    “ Greenie© “ is a staunch environmentalist, loves all things natural and especially trees. She lives in The Gambia and likes planting things, nursing them and watching them grow – her biggest horror are litter and waste in the environment and she is always happy and eager to explore new ways of re-using and re-cycling them and share her experience.

    Our plan is to join her in her adventures of helping to make The Gambia an even more beautiful place to live in and to visit. Her stories will be told in little 24 page pamphlets, showing her in real-life situation photographs accompanied by fun and educational copy-writing. The booklets will be published by PRSP in collaboration with her Artist creator, Caroczel, produced to a professional standard and will be a fun way to create environmental awareness for all age groups within the community.

    Fuel efficient wood-burning domestic stoves & Compressed bio-mass briquettes Fuel efficient wood-burning domestic stoves & Compressed bio-mass briquettes

    This type of stove has been developed and refined over the last 30 years. It is designed to use wood and other alternative bio-fuels in briquette format. This particular method of construction allows the harmful gases – which on a normal fire are seen as smoke – to be trapped and heated sufficiently to burn and create a secondary combustion. For the same amount of fuel we generate at least twice as much heat for cooking. Add to that other design features in the stove – better air control, a “ skirt “ around the pot base – and we increase its efficiency by as much as 3 times. In effect we only need one third of the fuel in comparison to an open fire to achieve the same result.
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    The stove will be custom designed for The Gambia’s conditions taking into account the maximum size of a standard domestic cooking pot and dietary requirements. It only comprises of 4 simple parts, its use is easy to learn and safe and it can be manufactured with tooling available on an industrial and local level from new or used steel and parts.
    Briquette in StoveBriquette in Stove

    PRSP Project Contact:
    George Riegg
    General Manager
    Mob: +220 770 7090
    Email: icecool@qanet.gm

Charcoal

Wood

  • The forgotten ‘victim’ of the northern Uganda war

    The forgotten ‘victim’ of the northern Uganda war
    Gladys Oroma, Daily Monitor Only, Uganda June 4, 2008, http://www.monitor.co.ug

    In times of war, what concerns people most are the effects of the insurgency on the people, not its effects on the environment among others things.

    The war however, in northern Uganda has had severe effects on the environment, says a new report. Due to the conflict, there has been a change in the land cover over the last 18 years. The remote sensing analysis report shows that small-scale woodland covers have increased in the area in the past years.

    According to the 2005 report, the woodland vegetation cover increase occurred in the districts of Kitgum, Gulu, Pader, Adjumani and Moyo while a significant decline in the woodland cover was registered in the districts of Apac, Kotido, Lira and Moroto.

Density

Holey Briquette

This list is pretty close to alphabetical. Alcohol stoves are in the first couple of pages, and wood stoves are on the last few pages. Use the fuels menu to restrict the list of stories to the particular fuel you are interested in.