[Stoves] In search for a stove model for the disaster in the Philippines

[Roger Samson]

Hi all
 
As Crispin mentioned there is lots of biomass to burn as there is tremendous biomass supply after the typhoon. Whats required is an investment in long term stove development by donors. Our agency REAP-Canada http://www.reap-canada.com/ started working on stoves in the Philippines in 1998, where we assessed various stoves  in the Visayas and eventually developed the Mayon Turbo stove. We built 5000 mayon turbo rice hull stoves in the area mainly for peri-urban and rural users who had access to rice husk. We were the first to obtain a clean combustion from a small scale rice hull cooker.  Rice husk is very low cost or free so the annualized cost of cooking is exceptionally low though the metal stove somewhat costly $15-20USD.
 
Nonetheless I would suggest clay stoves ahead of metal stoves for most of these households in the typhoon affected areas in terms of affordability and replicability.
For individual  households using fuelwood the eco-kalan developed by rebecca vermeer looks to be  the best option for the cooking pots and cooking needs of families. 
For very large families and commercial cooking we have recently developed in west africa the REAP clay brick stove locally known in west africa as the no-flay stove. It would be a nice fit for the Philippines based on our previous experiences there understanding cooking needs
http://www.reap-canada.com/online_library/IntDev/The%20Noflay%20Clay%20Brick%20Stove-%20Lessons%20Learned%20from%20Pilot%20Implementation%20in%20West%20Africa%20v2.pdf

We build and install these advanced clay brick stoves for about $9-$12 in west africa but have not installed any in the Philipppines( but we would love to work there again).


Just google mayon turbo stove, eco-kalan and no flay clay brick stove and they will come up for you in on line searches. 
regards
roger samson
http://www.reap-canada.com/


 
On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 3:58:29 AM, Cookswell Jikos <cookswelljikos at gmail.com> wrote:
  
On a slightly different note - with the devastation wrought on the forests and off farm tree cover - would there be possibilities for aerial re-seeding of select tree species that would help with nutrition (moringa etc.) live stock fodder (leceanea etc.) and woodfuel (there is a huge selection). 

Naturally the environmental is not as critical as clean water during the first weeks of a natural disaster but if reafforestation could piggybacked onto existing efforts it would help alot in the long run I believe.  

Please see this link for some interesting experiances. 
Sowing forests from the air


Teddy 


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On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:06 AM, Erin Rasmussen <erin at trmiles.com> wrote:

Hello list, 
>  
>Thanks for correcting me about the SODIS method, it's not pasteurization, I misremembered that.  To sum up Nari Phaltan's paper their recommendation was to filter water through 4 sari layers and then heat to 55C for 45 minutes. (Although they noticed improvement after 15 minutes, 45 minutes is best).  
> 
>Thank you Lanny and Frans for reminding me of this Institutional Rocket Stove calculator: 
>http://www.rocketstove.org/index.php/institutional-stoves 
> 
>Are there other members on the list that may have access to good plans for Jed that they can share in email with him directly? (jed.building.bridges at gmail.com ) He may have limited connectivity, so smaller messages are probably better.  
> 
>Also - anything we can do to aid Rebecca, would be wonderful as well. My earlier email with the pots was based on my sitting down and reflecting for a moment that she may be able to source them quite a bit closer to where she is than the west coast of the USA which is where I'm sitting as I type.  
> 
>Thank you for your help, 
>Erin Rasmussen
>erin at trmiles.com  
> 
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