[Stoves] ETHOS proceedings online

Crispin Pemberton-Pigott crispinpigott at gmail.com
Sun Jun 3 14:12:11 CDT 2012


Thanks Mark

 

I was looking at Dale and Christa's presentation on testing methods and
wondered something.

 

http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/ethos/files/ethos2012/SunPM/Roth_GIZ%20charcoal%
20work.pdf

 

Christa, there I no mention on your map or the text of the SeTAR Centre
which was established with GIZ And BEECAP funding to stabilise the work done
by ProBEC, of which you were a part, over 13 years leading to its
termination in 2010. The map of activities is also does not indicate the
most advanced lab created in Africa for stove testing. I was wondering why
the omission?

 

The test method towards the end of the presentation is a 'lite' version of
the SeTAR Centre protocol, that being a series of advancements on the ProBEC
protocols developed to overcome the problems traceable to the rather
defective WBT 3.1 that had cause so many problems.

 

It seems to me a bit obvious that GIZ-funded lab facilities should be
working with each other to advance the science of stove testing particularly
where advances have been consistent, solid, and scientifically evaluated for
precision and accuracy.

 

There are several promising stove designs that are the direct result of the
work or ProBEC including the POCA charcoal stove and its
variants/descendants, plus the Lion stove as implemented in Lesotho,
Swaziland and by Xavier in Benin. Very few researchers are working with
coal-fired space heating stoves even though there are many millions of them
in use. 

 

As the SeTAR Centre is currently testing stoves from around Africa it seems
wise have all the GTZ/GIZ initiatives, new or old, cooperating in a single
group. What do you think?

 

Regards

Crispin

 

 

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All, 

 

The presentations and papers from the 2012 ETHOS meeting are now available
at


http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/ethos/proceedings2012.html

 

Please take a look at the many great presentations. Any corrections,
updates, or suggestions should be provided to Keysha Hennings at
keysha.hennings at gmail.com.

 

Enjoy!

 

Mark

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