[Stoves] Stove Camp Newsletter 2013

Fri Aug 2 05:39:36 CDT 2013

Thanks Dean and Ron for the good reporting from this Stove Summer camp

Dean please provide more details and cost of the IAP in a box system, which
seems very interesting and affordable....

Regards

Rogerio

2013/8/2 Dean Still <deankstill at gmail.com>

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> *Aprovecho Summer Newsletter*
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> August 1, 2013
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> *Summer Stove Camp comes to a close*
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> [image: Sidwell_StoveCamp][image: Sidwell_StoveCamp]Sometimes Stove Camp
> goes so well and summer 2013 was one of those occasions. Many folks camped
> out and cooked delicious meals for everyone. Large projects, like a couple
> of bread ovens, were made and used. Manufacturers spent long, long hours
> testing and improving their products. Everyone worked hard and made huge
> progress throughout the week, especially the two prize winners.
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> There were two challenges for the week. One was sent to us by Jordan
> Kowalke who is working for Total Land Care in Malawi. He is designing a
> TLUD that will be used to burn wood chips for which he requested the
> assistance of Stove Camp participants. Jordan sent a list of specifications
> that the winning TLUD design must reach. This prize was awarded to Mick
> Black and Jeffrey Santiago who tweaked Paul Anderson's Quad 3 stove until
> it cleanly burned the wood chips and lasted long enough to make *posho*,
> a typical meal in Malawi.
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> [image: Dona_Dora]The other prize was for any stove that met the Tier
> rating of 2-3-3-3-3 (Thermal Efficiency, High & Low power PM, and High and
> Low power CO). Many stoves met this criteria so participants were allowed
> to vote for their favorite. The prize was awarded to David Evitt with his
> Guatemalan Doña Dora stove which he toiled to improve all week.
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> During camp there was a ‘shotgun’ approach of many individual tests done
> by many operators. For this we had three testing locations set-up. The two
> Laboratory Emissions Monitoring Systems (LEMS) in the lab and a new
> configuration we are calling “IAP-in-a-Box”, which is a test kitchen with a
> basic hood and collection chamber that holds the Indoor Air Pollution Meter
> (IAPM). This system was set up with the idea that testers can watch the
> live output from the meter and gauge their design’s progress without having
> to do a full test with the more complicated LEMS equipment. The
> “IAP-in-a-Box” is being documented for those who wish to test total stove
> emissions using the small, portable, IAP Meter. Please contact us if you
> are interested in getting a system.
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> [image: Dr_TLUD_Graph]Last summer people did many tests on charcoal
> stoves and it was obvious looking at the results that although charcoal
> stoves emitted a lot of CO they were almost all very low for PM. This year
> we created a large graphic representation of all the tests on the wall and
> added to it everyday. The conclusion was that TLUDs generally produce lower
> amounts of  PM than Rocket stoves but there seemed to be two classes of
> TLUDS: really clean ones and only moderately clean ones. Both Rockets and
> TLUDs were improved by paying greater attention to heat transfer. Even
> though getting excellent heat transfer is well described and doesn’t have
> to cost more it is amazing that getting more heat into the pot is so
> frequently ignored. As Dr. Winiarski and Dr. Baldwin point out, optimized
> heat transfer is a vitally import element in a good stove.
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> [image: StoveCampFood]The progress with the TLUDs was impressive. Several
> of the stoves worked well with different fuels and had adequate turn down
> ratio. Paul Anderson helped everyone to understand TLUD mechanics and air
> control. He was joined by Ron Larson, Art Donnelly, and others who are
> evolving the TLUD approach.
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> There is so much work that any motivated person could do, solving problems
> of the poor and moving humanity towards a more fulfilling and elegant
> future. Dean joked that even a monkey could follow the iterative design
> method and would eventually come up with innovative solutions to issues
> such as food drying, desalinization, solar heating, and stoves. All it
> takes is making a change or two per day in the prototype and seeing if it
> performs better or worse. That’s what we do here at Aprovecho and we hope
> that it catches on.
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> Sincerely,
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> The Aprovecho Team
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