[Stoves] TWO listservs of great value. Re: [stove] Measured long-term usage of an advanced biomass stove

Wed Dec 3 22:06:07 CST 2014

Dear Prof Smith and Colleagues,

The papers are very much relevant to our work. Will be glad to be part of
the list.

With best regards,
Gautam

*Dr. Gautam Kumar Saha*
Ph.D Biotechnology
Faculty Scientist : Program Officer
Policy Centre for Biomedical Research
Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, India

Policy Lab/ Office@ NII
C/o Prof N K Ganguly
National Institute of Immunology,
Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi: 110067

Mobile: +91-9810843167
Alt email: gautamkumarsaha at gmail.com

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Paul Anderson <psanders at ilstu.edu> wrote:

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> On 12/3/2014 1:43 AM, Kirk R. Smith wrote:
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> First published long-term application (that we know about) of the Stove
> Use Monitors (SUM) we pioneered last decade -- in this case more than 140k
> stove-days of observations of the advanced forced draft semi-gasifier stove
> (Philips) as well as the traditional chulha we were hoping to displace.
> This was done in our Newborn Stove project in India involving two Indian
> and two US institutions.  The analysis forms part of Ajay Pillarisetti's
> PhD thesis.  Webpublished version and supplementary material can be
> downloaded from my website below, but please watch for the final published
> version as there are often changes made at this stage, sometimes important.
>
> In addition to showing the high utility of such measurements and the
> importance of measuring both the new and the old stove over time, it
> reveals an unanticipated pattern of use.  Apparently, most women readily
> took up the Philips but to a significant extent added to their continued
> use of the chulha.  Thus, even though more fuel efficient the introduction
> of the Philips apparently caused a net increase in fuel use.  Presumably
> they found a benefit to doing so, but not in a way that ended up saving
> fuel (n.b.  this is not a fuel short area).  This is not "stacking" in the
> way we have come to use the term, i.e. that the new stove takes only part
> of the tasks of the old one, but perhaps something one might call "super
> stacking" -- partly substituting but also adding to the total.
>
> Not reported here, but soon to come, are the air pollution measurements
> that were done in this study.  As you might expect, they unfortunately show
> quite modest changes as a result of this usage pattern.  Best/k
>
> Patterns of Stove Usage after Introduction of an Advanced
> Cookstove: The Long-Term Application of Household Sensors
> Ajay Pillarisetti, Mayur Vaswani,Darby Jack,Kalpana Balakrishnan, Michael
> N. Bates,
> Narendra K. Arora, and Kirk R. Smith dx.doi.org/10.1021/es504624c | *Environ.
> Sci. Technol.*, Nov 2014 (webpublished)
>
> ABSTRACT: Household air pollution generated from solid
> fuel use for cooking is one of the leading risk factors for ill-health
> globally. Deployment of advanced cookstoves to reduce
> emissions has been a major focus of intervention eff orts.
> However, household usage of these stoves and resulting
> changes in usage of traditional polluting stoves is not well
> characterized. In Palwal District, Haryana, India, we carried out
> an intervention utilizing the Philips HD4012 fan-assisted stove,
> one of the cleanest biomass stoves available. We placed small,
> unobtrusive data-logging iButton thermometers on both the
> traditional and Philips stoves to collect continuous data on use
> patterns in 200 homes over 60 weeks. Intervention stove usage
> declined steadily over time and stabilized after approximately
> 200 days; use of the traditional stove remained relatively constant. We
> additionally evaluated how well short-duration usage
> measures predicted long-term use. Measuring usage over time of both
> traditional and intervention stoves provides better
> understanding of cooking behaviors and can lead to more precise quantifi cation
> of potential exposure reductions and consequent
> health benefi ts attributable to interventions.
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