Biomass Cookstove Design and Testing

Design Principles and Types of Stoves and Food Warmers

Design Principles

Stove Gap Calculator (Excel Spreadsheet and Description), Crispin Pemberton-Pigott, New Dawn Engineering, Swaziland, March 2006
Ten Stove Design Principles, Larry Winiarski, Dean Still, Aprovecho, August 2005
Design Principles for Wood Burning Cook Stoves, Aprovecho Research Center, Partnership for Clean Indoor Air, Shell Foundation, June 2005 (1MB pdf)
Design Development and Types of Stoves (RWEDP)
Cooking Stove Improvements: Design for Remote High Altitude Areas Dolpa Region Nepal, Sjoerd Nienhuys April 2005
Crispin's Excel Spreadsheet for Chimney Draft Calculations, New Dawn Engineering, May 2005
The NEW PDI- Family Cooker (Pakistan Design Institute -Family Cooker), Chris Adam, May 2005
Instructions for Building a VITA Stove by Samuel F. Baldwin, 1987, Dean Still May 2005

• Richard Hill Stick Wood Furnace and Emissions Tests (1979-1980), Richard Hill, January 2005
• Hayboxes or Fireless Cookers (October 2003)
• Grates Improve Efficiency, Dean Still, April 24, 2003
• Improved Combustion (Rocket Stove)
  • The Onil Stove, Don Oneal, 2005
• Gasification (Wood Gas or Turbo Stove)
• Phillips develops a woodstove that saves lives and preserves energy resources, Paul van der Sluis, Phillips Research, Eindhoven, Netherlands, March 2006
  Video Demonstration of Phillips Stove (Requires Real Player) Nieuwslicht, 3 maart 2006 vrijdag 3
  Phillips Sustainability
• • Midge (Modified Inverted Downdraft Gasifier Experiment) Stove, Woodgas Discussion Group, William Carr, September 2005
  • Biomass Gasification: Clean Residential Stoves, Commercial Power Generation, and Global Impacts 8-10 Nov 2004, Viña del Mar, Chile, Paul S. Anderson (Ph.D.) and Thomas B. Reed (Ph.D.)
  • The Garlington Woodgas Stove, Ray Garlington 2003

Rocket Stove Design Guides (Malawi 2005), Peter Scott, Aprovecho

• 2 sets of Stove Plans:
  
  • 110L Half Drum Brick Stove Plans
    
  • 200L Brick Stove Plans
    
• 2 Excel design guides:
  
  • Household metal Rocket stove design guide
    
  • Institutional metal Rocket Stove design guide
    
• 2 stove design guides (Microsoft word):
  
  • Brick Institutional Stove Design Guide
    
  • Metal Institutional Stove Design Guide
    
• 1 design guide for Pot development: (note: this is made for producing pots from stainless steel sheets i250 by 2500 mm)
  
  • 100L and 200L Pot development design Guide
• Quality Control Guide for Stove Producers
• Institutional User Guide

Materials and Manufacturing Techniques

• Mud
  Mud Stoves, Aprovecho/PCIA April 2005
  Different Types of Energy Saving Stoves in Southern Malawi Christa Roth, IFPS Malawi
  
  
• Ceramic and Concrete:
  • Durability of Insulating Bricks and Ceramic Stoves, Discussion September 2005
    Report on Baldosa Tiles for HELPS and TW Stoves September 2005
  • Ecofogao/Ecostove Brochure, Stuart Conway, Trees Water and People, April 2005
    
    
  • Practical Tips For Potters Making Improved Cooking Stoves
    • Part 1: Forward and Introduction
    • Part 2: Finding and Selecting the Clay
    • Part 3: Testing the Clay For Cooking Stoves
    • Part 4: Materials That Can be Added to Make a Better Mixture
    • Part 5 -- Making Up and Testing Mixtures, and Clay Preparation, Richard Boyt, June 2005
    • Part 6: Forming Stoves, Richard Boyt, June 2005
    • Part 7: Drying and Firing the Stove, Richard Boyt, July 2005
  • Ceramic Charcoal Making Cookstove Richard Boyt and Ron Larson June 2003
  • Ceramics for Cookstoves
    • Part 1: Finding Clay (May 2003)
    • Part 2: Testing Unfired (green) Clay(May 2003)
    • Part 3a: Test firing local clays- primitive kilns (May 2003)
    • Part 3b: Test Firing Local Clays- Re-discovery of a "Natural" Kiln (June 2003)
    • Part 4: Drying Formed Clay Shapes (September 2003)
    • Part 5a: Making Samples for Testing (August 2003)
    • Part 7- Ash/clay-- Modifying, Shaping, and Drying (July 2005)
      
      
  • Specific Thermal Resistance of Various Materials, Roberto Escardo (May 2003)
  • Heat loss from stoves: Thermal properties of insulative bricks Overall heat losses Dale Andreatta (April 2003)
    
    
  • How to Make a Portable Clay Stove IFPS Malawi/GTZ ProBEC (February 2003)
  • How to construct a kiln for clay stove firing Christa Roth, IFPS Malawi (February 2003)
    
    
  • The Onil Stove, Don Oneal 2005
  • Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (AAC)
    
    
  • Ceramics, Clay and Insulating Brick
  • Making Insulative Clay Combustion Chambers slide show, Dean Still, Aprovecho March 2003
  • Using Pumice to Make Lightweight Ceramics in El Salvador Damon Ogle, March 31, 2003
    
  • MAKING LIGHT WEIGHT REFRACTORY CERAMIC FROM PERLITE AND CLAY Damon Ogle Jan 13, 2003
  • The Effect of Material Choice on the Combustion Chamber of a Rocket Cooking Stove: Adobe, Common Brick, Vernacular Insulative Ceramic, and Guatemalan Floor Tile (Baldosa) Dean Still and Brad van Appel January 1, 2002
    
    
  • HELPS Plancha Stove Jutiaupa Mod With Inverted Pyramid Don O'Neal March 2003
  • Ron Larson's Questions and Answers March 2003
  • Making Baldosa Tiles for HELPS Stoves in Guatemala Don O'Neal Feb 3 2003
  • Status and Development Issues of the Brick Industry in Asia RWEDP Field Document No.35, 1993
    
    
• Stone or brick
• Refractory, Lightweight ceramic refractory
  • Rocket Stove, Safedrinkingwater.blogspot.com, Rusty Shuping, Appropriate Technology Blog February 2006
    
• Metal:
  • Test of (Metal) Materials for Downdraft Grates, Damon Ogle, January 2005
  • EcoBarril and Rocket Stoves from Honduras MicroEnterprise Project, Honduras, Stuart Conway, Trees Water and People, January 14 2005
  • Installation of Improved Metal Cooking Stoves in the Khumbu Region: Field Visit Report (1 of 3) Sustainable Technology Adaptive Research and Implementation Center, Nepal Sjoerd Nienhuys,SNV-Nepal January 2005 (2 of 3) (3 of 3)
  • 3CR12
  • Tin cans, tincanium: WINGS The Homemade Stove Archive

Standards and Performance Testing: Field and Laboratory

Cookstoves Testing

• Stove Performance and Evaluation Protocols, Forms, and Guidelines, David Pennise, Rob Bailis, CEIHD March 2006
• Water Boiling Test (WBT), Kirk Smith, Household Environment and Health (HEH) Project standard protocol for indoor air pollution measurements and stove performance tests (SPTs), December 2004

Ghana: Stirring Pot in Improved Cookstove, Yeji, Lake Volta (FAO/18379/P. Cenini)		Vietnamese Lo-Trau Stove in Guinea (FAO/17288/D. Van Tran)

• Gasification
• Combustion
  • Use of CFD Simulation as a Design Tool for Biomass Stoves, IEI Global 2002
• Air Flow
  • Crispin's Excel Spreadsheet for Chimney Draft Calculations, New Dawn Engineering, May 2005
  • Stove Gap Calculator (Excel Spreadsheet and Description), Crispin Pemberton-Pigott, New Dawn Engineering, Swaziland, March 2006
• Emissions
• Economics, social benefits
• Design or selection decision tree