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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.

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  • Ten top tips for successful scaling up

    Ten top tips for successful scaling up
    Alan Brewis, Enterprise Works 2005

    Practical Action Boilng Point Issue 50 2005

  • 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

  • New Clay Ring Forming Machine for Domestic Rocket Stoves in Malawi

    Crispin Pemberton-Pigott, New Dawn Engineering, Swaziland June 3, 2006

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  • Clay Ring Maker For Various Stoves

    Crispin Pemberton-Pigott, New Dawn Engineering, June 3, 2006

  • First Rocket Rings Fired

    Crispin Pemberton-Pigott, New Dawn Engineering, Swaziland, June 12, 2006

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    Dear Friends

    I fired two of the rings today for a brief time, perhaps 3 hours at temperature. No particular care was taken regarding the slow initial temperature rise.

  • Sample Ring From the Ring Maker

    Sample Ring From the Ring Maker
    Crispin Pemberton-Pigott, New dawn Engineering, July 30, 2006

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  • Magh CM woodgas Good Stove

    Magh CM Woodgas Good Stove http://e-maghcm.blogspot.com/ designed recently is a very low cost TLUD stove meant for Common Man (CM). This can be produced by the local communities with less than 8 dollars (USD). Under Magh CM series I have designed many stoves / burners in the past. This stove design is one of the most acceptable stoves, as it has the options to run on forced air / natural draft. Most importantly the convenient charcoal / ash removal facility is created at the bottom, the grate can be simply lifted using a wire and immediately refilled for reuse. The additional window for secondary air in case of no power, the primary air control and the 12 V DC powered fan makes it like a geared vehicle for multiple options to control the heat / flame / updraft. Used the most commonly available oil tin can of 12 inches x 9 inches x 9 inches with a combustion chamber of 6 inches diameter and 9 inches height for the convenience of adoption for a family of 5 members cooking needs. The tin cans are easily available all over India. Posting here the pictures and the design for your valuable comments for improvement. I am thankful to all for your valuable suggestions in the past. This is the 30th Good Stove design of Avan and Magh series since last 4 years of my research and design. Happy to share that the people who have seen this stove have paid money in advance for having these Stoves. For more pictures and info see http://e-maghcm.blogspot.com/ and http://picasaweb.google.com/saibhaskar.gsbc

    The biomass feed is: Wood shavings, chips of wood, leaves, corn cobs, pieces of sticks, seeds, cowdung cakes etc.
    Weight: ~15 kgs
    Dimensions: 12x9x9 inches
    Price: less than 8 dollars (community price)
     
    GEO http://www.e-geo.org is implementing Good Stoves and Biochar Communities (GSBC) Project in Andhra Pradesh State, India with the support of GoodPlanet, France http://www.goodplanet.org, this is a 3 years project. 
     

     

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  • Performance of Improved Heat Exchanger Chimney

    Performance of Improved Heat Exchanger Chimney, Mouhsine Serrar, SunSmiles, Berkeley/Morocco, January 2006

  • Cheap, Simple Alcohol Stove

    Cheap, Simple Alcohol Stove, Mark Witt, Aprovecho Research Center, February 2006

  • Rocket Stoves and other technologies: state of the art in Malawi

    Rocket Stoves and other technologies – state of the art in Malawi (pdf), GTZ ProBEC North, Andi Michel, January 2006

  • Project Gaia Research Studies in Ethiopia

    Project Gaia Research Studies in Ethiopia, Jim Murren, Stokes Consulting Group February 2006

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  • One (Pop) Can Stove

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

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