[Stoves] Vegetable oil as fuel in India

[Otto Formo]

Dear Crispin,
dont "forget" to mention that we are talking about waste vegoil..............after being utilized as food, first and formost

Regards
Otto

> From: Crispin Pemberton-Pigott [crispinpigott at gmail.com]
> Sent: 2011-12-20 21:48:56 MET
> To: Stoves [stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org]
> Subject: [Stoves] Vegetable oil as fuel in India
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> Dear Friends
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> I found a reference to using vegetable oil as a fuel in India.
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> Regards
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> Crispin
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> Use of vegetable oil as fuel to improve the efficiency of cooking stove
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> Natarajan, R.; Karthikeyan, N. S.; Agarwaal, Avinash [Energy Centre, School
> of Mechanical and Building Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology
> University, Vellore 632 014 (India)]; Sathiyanarayanan, K. [Chemistry
> Division, School of Science and Humanities, Vellore Institute of Technology
> University, Vellore 632 014 (India)]
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> 2008-11-15
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> In this study, an attempt has been made to use waste vegetable oil as a fuel
> for a cooking stove. Suitable modifications have been made in the kerosene
> stove for use with vegetable oil as fuel. The efficiency of the stove using
> vegetable oil as fuel is observed to be as high as 48.9% as compared to
> 34.9% with that of a conventional stove when a flat copper bottom vessel is
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> Corresponding efficiency increase is also observed with other vessels.
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