Biomass Cooking Stoves

Effective cooking stoves can be built from a variety of different materials, and with a range of building techniques. Because materials and skilled builders can be scarce, we have sorted our more recent stories to allow you to choose the construction method that best fits your project.

Use the construction menu to narrow the list of stories to the materials and methods specific to your interest and application.

Concrete

HELPS Stove Factory, Rio Bravo, Guatemala

HELPS Stove Factory, Rio Bravo, Guatemala
Don O'Neal HELPS International August 2003
HELPS Estufa Onil Stove: CAST AND MOLD

HELPS Estufa Onil Stove: CAST AND MOLD
Don O'Neal HELPS International March 2003
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
STOws Cooker - Low Cost Concrete and Ceramic Stove

STOws Cooker - Low Cost Concrete and Ceramic Stove
by Crispin Pemberton-Pigott (PROBEC)
25 Sept 2006

Design Brief:
The development of a stove for use in low income areas of rural Senegal.
Singida Stoves: Searchng for Advice on Concrete Stoves

Singida Stoves: Searching for Advice on Concrete Stoves Klavs Heeboell, Danish Tanzanian Friendship Association (Dantan), Singida,Tanzania,March 28, 2009

Singida Stoves

Singida Stoves

At long last a short description with pictures of the kind of stoves on the agenda of Shina Group in corporation with a few members of the Danish Tanzanian Friendship Association (http://dantan.dk). I hope this will do for initial comments and ideas. The aim of the project is as in many developing countries to reduce the use of firewood and minimize smoke in the kitchen thereby improving the health of the cook and her children. We shall be most pleased to receive advice and ideas.

Klavs Heeboell

klavsheeboell@hotmail.com See letter attached with pictures and text.

Insulative Clay

AID Uganda April-May 2005

AID Uganda April-May 2005, 10,000 Stoves Project, Ken Goyer June 2005
Making Insulative Clay Combustion Chambers

Making Insulative Clay Combustion Chambers
Dean Still, Aprovecho Research Institute, March 2003
Using Pumice to Make Lightweight Ceramics in El Salvador

Using Pumice to Make Lightweight Ceramics in El Salvador
Damon Ogle, Aprovecho Research Center, March 31, 2003
The Effect of Material Choice on the Combustion Chamber of a Rocket Cooking Stove: Adobe, Brick, Insulative Ceramic

The Effect of Material Cho

Ceramics, Clay and Insulating Brick

Ceramics, Clay and Insulating Brick
Biomass Cooking Stoves Discussions 2003
Manual Clay Ring Forming Machine

Manual clay ring forming machine for making the combustion chamber of a small single-pot Rocket Stove.
New Dawn Engineering
Crispin Pemberton-Pigott June 2 2006
The Sprocket Rocket in Uganda

Sprocket Rocket Charcoal Stove Image Gallery or the The Sprocket Rocket (pdf) (Uganda)
Ken Goyer June 4, 2006
Video: Charcoal burning Rocket stove reduces CO emissions

H i Resolution Video: Charcoal burning Rocket stove reduces CO emissions
Low Resolution Video Two Parts
The First Sixbricks Rocket Stove in Darfur

The First Sixbricks Rocket Stove in Darfur
Ken Goyer, AID Africa, Dan Wolf, International Lifeline Fund,September 4, 2006

Yesterday we had our first demonstration of the SixBricks Rocket stove in North Darfur. We had successfully fired about 1,000 of our special lightweight bricks using a local brickmaker, and now we have now started to show off the stove. Our first demonstration was a huge success. While the demonstration was intended to show the stove to a few nonprofit organizations, about 100 women came and took over the cooking action.The local staple food, aceda, was made in the largest round bottomed pot and then meat and sauces were cooked in other pots. The surprise was that after cooking this large and rather complicated meal, two thirds of it was handed over the fence and spirited away into a hut where some men were gathered. So the women were left with very little to taste. None the less they were very happy with the performance of the stove.
VIDEO: How to build a Rocket Stove (includes making insulative refractory bricks)

VIDEO: How to build a Rocket Stove (includes making insulative refractory bricks)
Jeremy Roth, Aprovecho Research Center, June 12, 2007

A new video from Aprovecho showing step-by-step instructions for building a small, single-pot rocket stove made from sheet metal and insulative refractory bricks. Instructions for making refractory bricks are also included in the video.

The video is available for viewing and download from Aprovecho's website www.Aprovecho.org

See http://www.aprovecho.org/web-content/media/rocket/rocket.htm