Biomass Stove Design

Fuel Briquette Burning at Stoves Camp 2008
Rok Oblak, August 31, 2008
Briquette Burning Stove


Stove Diagram

This prototype was to check the hole of the briquette and how gasification can do a nice job. As said, starting the fire with few small sticks and then after preheating the chamber, briquettes ignite by themselves and burn throughly. You can help flames with having a stick in the hole while burning. I really liked how the briquette retained its shape after it burned out, so you could still push the next one it without preventing the draft..

But the briquette burned with the surface lit from the combustion chamber, as Larry predicted. You could literally walk away of the stove with the consistent flame going on all the time (I guess the briquettes were good quality :) The air inflow was only through the hole of the briquette.

Funny was, that even when one briquette burned out, the next one ignited and the airflow continued through the hole of the first briquette.

(Click image to enlarge in Gallery)

Servals Hybrid Pressure Stove
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 Stove 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 Oil ( 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

FIVE FAN STOVES AT ETHOS STOVE CAMP 2008
Dean Still, August 9, 2008
FIVE FAN STOVES
Five Fan Stoves ETHOS 2008

Five fan stoves are shown here together for the first time.

The Stoves from Left:
Aprovecho Side feed - One Door Rocket with fan powered secondary air jet.
BP Oorja - BP India, wood pellet burning stove apparently modeled after Tom Reed woodgas stove.
Philips Wood Stove - Fan stove based on good combustion under development since 2006.
Tom Reed Woodgas - Tom Reed's Top Lit Updraft stove.
Paul Anderson - Paul's latest fan stove - one of many.

FIVE FAN STOVES AT ETHOS STOVE CAMP 2008
Dean Still, August 9, 2008
FIVE FAN STOVES
Five Fan Stoves ETHOS 2008

Five fan stoves are shown here together for the first time.

The Stoves from Left:
Aprovecho Side feed - One Door Rocket with fan powered secondary air jet.
BP Oorja - BP India, wood pellet burning stove apparently modeled after Tom Reed woodgas stove.
Philips Wood Stove - Fan stove based on good combustion under development since 2006.
Tom Reed Woodgas - Tom Reed's Top Lit Updraft stove.
Paul Anderson - Paul's latest fan stove - one of many.

FIVE FAN STOVES AT ETHOS STOVE CAMP 2008
Dean Still, August 9, 2008
FIVE FAN STOVES
Five Fan Stoves ETHOS 2008

Five fan stoves are shown here together for the first time.

The Stoves from Left:
Aprovecho Side feed - One Door Rocket with fan powered secondary air jet.
BP Oorja - BP India, wood pellet burning stove apparently modeled after Tom Reed woodgas stove.
Philips Wood Stove - Fan stove based on good combustion under development since 2006.
Tom Reed Woodgas - Tom Reed's Top Lit Updraft stove.
Paul Anderson - Paul's latest fan stove - one of many.

FIVE FAN STOVES AT ETHOS STOVE CAMP 2008
Dean Still, August 9, 2008
FIVE FAN STOVES
Five Fan Stoves ETHOS 2008

Five fan stoves are shown here together for the first time.

The Stoves from Left:
Aprovecho Side feed - One Door Rocket with fan powered secondary air jet.
BP Oorja - BP India, wood pellet burning stove apparently modeled after Tom Reed woodgas stove.
Philips Wood Stove - Fan stove based on good combustion under development since 2006.
Tom Reed Woodgas - Tom Reed's Top Lit Updraft stove.
Paul Anderson - Paul's latest fan stove - one of many.

FIVE FAN STOVES AT ETHOS STOVE CAMP 2008
Dean Still, August 9, 2008
FIVE FAN STOVES
Five Fan Stoves ETHOS 2008

Five fan stoves are shown here together for the first time.

The Stoves from Left:
Aprovecho Side feed - One Door Rocket with fan powered secondary air jet.
BP Oorja - BP India, wood pellet burning stove apparently modeled after Tom Reed woodgas stove.
Philips Wood Stove - Fan stove based on good combustion under development since 2006.
Tom Reed Woodgas - Tom Reed's Top Lit Updraft stove.
Paul Anderson - Paul's latest fan stove - one of many.

FIVE FAN STOVES AT ETHOS STOVE CAMP 2008
Dean Still, August 9, 2008
FIVE FAN STOVES
Five Fan Stoves ETHOS 2008

Five fan stoves are shown here together for the first time.

The Stoves from Left:
Aprovecho Side feed - One Door Rocket with fan powered secondary air jet.
BP Oorja - BP India, wood pellet burning stove apparently modeled after Tom Reed woodgas stove.
Philips Wood Stove - Fan stove based on good combustion under development since 2006.
Tom Reed Woodgas - Tom Reed's Top Lit Updraft stove.
Paul Anderson - Paul's latest fan stove - one of many.

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 TLUD 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 TLUD 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

Cookstove System Save80
LUSAKA SUSTAINABLE ENERGY PROJECT and COOK STOVE PROJECT KUPANG
Climate Interchange AG,Garching/Munich, Germany, July 2008
Cookstove Save80

Uso Eficiente de la Leña: El caso ECOFOGON de Nicaragua
María Engracia De Trinidad (prolena.renovable@sdnnic.org.ni), PROLEÑA,18 y 19 de Marzo, 2004

Ecofogon

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 TLUD 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 TLUD 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

Informe Final: Estudio Validación del Ecofogón “Justa”
Prolena, ASOCIACIÓN PARA EL FOMENTO DENDROENERGÉTICO,Nicaracgua

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 TLUD 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 TLUD 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