Biomass Cooking Stoves

Metal

• Simple Grate

  Lanny Henson April 2006

  See additional photos at http://www.lanny.us/grate.html

  Finding a simple to make grate for cook stoves has been a problem. Most
  grates require some king of complicated punching, welding or expanding.
  Well I built a stove that uses a grate, the top lit stove is not remarkable
  but the grate has promise.

• Maputo: Joao's Clay Vesto Stove

  Joao's Clay Vesto Stove - Maputo
  Crispin Pemberton-Pigott, New Dawn Engineering, Swaziland, May 2006
  Joao da Conceicao

  Joao's Clay Vesto

• Burning charcoal- UMC-CH1 Charcoal Burner Module

  Burning charcoal- UMC-CH1 Charcoal Burner Module
  Lanny Henson May 13 2006

• Simple Tin Can Chimney

  Simple Tin Can Chimney
  Lanny Henson May 2006

• Lanny Henson's Center Fire Charcoal Burner

  Lanny Henson, May 26, 2006
  www.lanny.us

  

  Center fired cartridge burner modules for wood and charcoal.

• Lanny Henson's Center Fire Wood Burner

  Lanny Henson May 27, 2006
  www.lanny.us

  Henson Center fire, simple tin can wood gas burner cartridge module.

  
• Paul Hait Explains the Pyromid Charcoal Cooker

  Paul Hait, May 29, 2006
  www.pyromid.net

  
• Turbo Stove, Finland

  Tapio Niemi's Turbo Stove
  Updated December 8, 2006

  
  Turbo Stove
• Lanny Henson's Center Fire Stove 01

  Lanny Henson June 4, 2006

  This modular stove is built from used metal containers.

  It has a center fire burner module, a sunken 8-liter pot module, and an insulated/ chip drying top cap.
  The burner and is made from an institutional food can. It takes all the ware and stress from the fire protecting the rest of the stove body.They are easy to build and can act as fuel cartridges to store fuel for quick and easy use.
  The burner module, under development, adds secondary combustion air to the top of the burner.

  Lanny Henson's Center Fire Stove 01
• Stainless Steel Temperatures and Strength

  Stainless Steel Temperatures and Strength (pdf)
  Dean Still Aprovecho Research Center, June 2006

• The Sprocket Rocket in Uganda

  Sprocket Rocket Charcoal Stove Image Gallery or the The Sprocket Rocket (pdf) (Uganda)
  Ken Goyer June 4, 2006

  
• The Pema Pot Skirt

  Pema Pot Skit
  Jigme Rangdrol June 10, 2006

  Pema Pot Skirt

  There seems to be actual agreement that pot skirts make combustion stoves better.
  It is clear however that the bulk of deployed stoves do not have pot skirts.
  Therefore an inexpensive pot skirt that could be made in the third and fourth world for those deployed stoves would have some usefulness.

• Center Fire Stove 01 Cooking Test

  Center Fire Stove 01 Cooking Test
  Lanny Henson, June 12, 2006

  In the last cooking test, the Center Fire Stove 01 needed only 750
  grams/1.65 lb of pine chips to cook 8 pounds/3.63 kilograms dry weight of pintos. That is 14 liters of volume with water or 104 servings-35 gr/ 1/2 cup cooked volume (1/4 cup dry weight) servings.

• The Garlington Wood Gas Stove

  The Garlington Wood Gas Stove
  Ray Garlington 2003

  
  
• Building a VITA Stove

  Instructional Video "Building a VITA Stove"
  Jeremy Roth, Aprovecho Research Center, June 13th 2006

  VITA Stove

  A step-by-step visual guide to constructing a VITA stove. The VITA stove is a single pot stove that can be constructed easily from sheet metal. It is inexpensive to build and is suitable for cooking outdoors and in refugee situations. The video can be watched or downloaded on the Aprovecho web site http://www.aprovecho.net/stoves/web-content/media/vita/vita.html

• 160 grams of charcoal boils and simmers 5 liters/CF04 Stove

  160 grams of charcoal boils and simmers 5 liters/CF04 Stove
  Lanny Henson www.lanny.us July 2, 2006

  The CF04 Stove boiled and simmered 5 liters using only 160gr of charcoal and wood.

  

  After several modifications to 4 different prototypes, it only took 150 gr of lump charcoal with 11% moisture and 10gr of wood to boil 5 liters of 83 degF/28.3 degC water in 45 min. That is 32 grams per liter to boil and simmer. At 1 hour after boiling the water was still simmering at 100 degC and after 2 hours the water was 205degF/96 degC. At this point I shut the air control and capped the pot module to stop the airflow and retain heat.

  At 3 hours the water temp was 190 degF/87.8 degC and was 178 degF/ 81 degC at 4 hours.

• Improved Mali Stove

  Improved Mali Stove
  Crispin Pemberton-Pigott, New Dawn Engineering, July 21, 2006

  Dear Friends

  I have heard confirmation from FASEN in Dakar (Senegal) that the women cooking at the ProBEC head office are using 50% less charcoal with their 'improved Malgach' stove (pronounced mal-gash).

  
• Berkeley Tara - Darfur Improved Stove

  Berkeley Tara - Darfur Improved Stove (pdf)
  Ashok Gadgil and Susan Amrose, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), July 15, 2006

  I returned two days ago from Darfur. Susan Amrose is still in Khartoum, will return tomorrow. We visited El Fashir (and Abu Shouk camp), Nyala (and Otash camp), and of course Khartoum. Our hosts for this trip was the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and CHF International.

  Darfur FES

  I would like to send you all the powerpoint presentation that Susan and I gave at the meetings of NGOs and funders in Khartoum, Nyala and El Fashir, organized by UNFPA. We think the presentations were very well received.

  kind regards,

  -- Ashok

• 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

• Report on Improved Dung Burning Stove in Tibet

  Report on Improved Dung Burning Stove in Tibet
  Mike Hatfield, Aprovecho Research Center and GTZ, July 16-August 4, 2006

  Tibet Traditional Stove