[Stoves] Jatropha and its future

[Marc Pare]

Crispin, re exisiting Jatropha stoves:

There was this one at ETHOS this year by J. Otto and friends:
http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/ethos/proceedings2011/OttoOttoCovert_JatrophaSeedCookingStoveDevelopmentPromotion.pdf
and a quick picture of it running outside in Kirkland:
http://smallredtile.tumblr.com/post/3246717546/marc-in-the-wild-there-were-many-arguments-about

It burns whole seeds in a natural draft TLUD. Draft is augmented by an inner
air pipe (lots of pictures of the assembly in the ETHOS presentation)

Marc Paré
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology | Université de Technologie de Compiègne

my cv, etc. | http://notwandering.com


On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:36 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <
crispinpigott at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Friends****
>
> I am not sure how many stove are being worked on as Jatropha seed or oil or
> cake burners, but my understanding was the main thrust was to put to use
> some of the leftovers from biofuel production, especially that was the focus
> in Tanzania.****
>
> It seems those farmers who invested in Jatropha production lost about $65
> per ha http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es201943v so my question is
> whether or not there is much point in working on (perhaps) whole seed
> stoves. Perhaps if the J-oil industry suffers a quick death there will still
> be a meaningful supply of oily seed fuel that  can be burned relatively
> easily with a decent performance and controllability. At least until they go
> back to sunflower which looks a lot more promising.****
>
> Has anyone made a sunflower seed burning stove? The oil runs up to 49% on
> some varieties.****
>
> Always looking for new ideas…****
>
> Regards****
>
> Crispin****
>
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