[Stoves] Stoves Digest, Vol 11, Issue 6

David Osborne celsius4u at hotmail.com
Sun Jul 10 17:15:04 CDT 2011


Re. Household cooking. 
We are about to undertake a paper in Kenya to complete a social and health impact study. Glasgow Uni and Celsius Global Solutions (CGS) are to test the Jompy boiler in situ completing necessary information, there is room for a stove trial, what do you have on mind? 
www.jompy.co.uk
You can contact me openly or in private. Email, celsius4u at hotmail.com

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> From: "John Davies" <jmdavies at telkomsa.net>
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> Paal wrote,
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> There is a need of a practical test where fuel and stove are evaluated
> together with the user. If you are saving some some energy and some minutes
> in time of cooking, it can easy be lost by handling the fuel and the stove
> or by cleaning the pots. The stove, the fuel and the cook is one unit,
> working together with respect for each others specialities.
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> These are very wise words.   At the first demonstration of my TLUD
> bituminous  coal stove, which uses a chimney, with the pot sealing the top
> of the stove. I remember the reaction of some of the onlookers. 
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> After lighting the stove, and placing the pot, smoke exited the chimney, and
> stopped after less than 1 minute.  I knew that the chimney had started
> drafting, pulling secondary air into the flame and causing the clean burn.
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> One onlooker pronounced that the fire had extinguished, and many others
> agreed. Lifting the pot allowed a smoky flame to exit the stove. I replaced
> the pot and told them that the water would be boiling in 4 minutes. This
> caused much amusement and shaking of heads.      Now there was much
> inspection of what was going on, with people standing close to the stove,
> feeling the heat and watching the chimney. The water boiled in 4 minutes,
> much to the amazement of many.
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> This proves Paal's  comment about the  user component.  How does one explain
> to the user, and gain their acceptance that there can be fire without smoke.
> Especially if the flame cannot be seen. A case of training, training,
> training.  With this stove, part of the answer was to drill a 3mm peep hole
> at a strategic place, so that the user could see the flame. 
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> Even if the user does not fully understand what is going on, acceptance is
> the minimum criteria. Acceptance to accept what cannot be understood, and
> acceptance of all the operating instructions. Not always an easy task, but
> proof that intensive training of the user is needed.
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> Greetings to all, and keep up the good work.
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> John Davies.
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