[Stoves] Request for technology proposals - Clean Stove Initiative, Indonesia

Thu Feb 20 03:12:08 CST 2014

Dear Manufacturers and Vendors of Improved Cooking Stoves

There was a RFTP (Request for Technology Proposals) issued by the Government
of Indonesia seeking improved stoves for Central Java Province.

The relevant document is available in English and Bahasa Indonesia at:

http://tungkuindonesia.org/images/downloads/Call_for_Clean_Stove_Technology_
for_Testing.pdf

The test method that will be applied is at:

http://tungkuindonesia.org/images/downloads/CSI_Indonesia_Test_Methods_2014-
1-14_v7.pdf

There are important documents explaining what Results Based Financing is and
several other very useful items that would form the basis of interesting
discussions here on the Stoves List.

See http://tungkuindonesia.org/en/page/60/Report-and-Publication.html for
the whole list. The two above are items 8 and 6 respectively.

If you are interested you can join the Indonesia Stove Alliance.

Attention Stove Testers and Regulators:

For those involved in stove performance testing, the CSI-WBT method that
will be applied during the product selection process may be of great
interest. It is not like any method you will have seen before and offers a
common framework for testing in every community, on every stove, with every
fuel, every pot and every cooking style. The test results are particular to
the community in which the stoves are to be used.  Performance is measured
against a local baseline.

The basics of it are described in the "Test Method" document. Not every
detail is provided in that concise version but there is a Laboratory Manual
and spreadsheets that do for those with a need for them.

Attention Social Scientists and Programme Managers:

The cooking tasks selected for performance rating have been determined
during carefully conducted field assessments allowing for a characterisation
of the behaviour of people in the target market. Rather than evaluating the
impact of a stove technology during roll-out or after is has been completed,
the product performance list is developed on the basis of expressed desires,
aspirational features, product suitability and the programme goals of the
government and financing institutions. During this preliminary phase many
preconceptions were validated or dismissed and the customer's actual cooking
behaviours captured accurately enough to create a predictive performance
test. This approach has shaped both the target performance benchmarks and
the evaluation method.

Attention Water Boilers:

If you have a stove product that can be operated with no attention after
lighting, such as a TLUD gasifier, please note that there is a new product
type requested which is a dedicated water boiler. This is not a cooking
stove, it is only for boiling water. This common task is done in many modern
kitchens using a kettle. It is a call for a biomass-fired kettle. 

The efficiency requirement is much high than for a cooking stove because it
is a dedicated appliance. See the documents for details.  If you have a
device that can efficiently bring at least 5 litres of water to a boil
without any attention after lighting, maintain the boil briefly to assure
the temperature was reached, then shut off, you may have a winner. Eight mm
diameter wood pellets are considered 'available' even if at this time there
is no systematic supply in most communities. However it is intended that
they will be if there is a market for them. Processed biomass and agri-waste
may be your choice.

This type of device can be called a 'fuel, fire and forget' or F3 appliance.
It is an exciting opportunity for inventors and manufacturers. 

Attention Product Developers:

There is considerable manufacturing capacity in Indonesia. See the document
2 on the list:

http://tungkuindonesia.org/images/downloads/kasus_kompor_biomassa_bersih_(en
g).pdf 

for information on how to connect with the business community.

Best regards to all

Crispin

Crispin Pemberton-Pigott

International Technical Consultant

World Bank Clean Stove Initiative - Indonesia

crispin at newdawn.sz <mailto:crispin at newdawn.sz> 

BBM 2B567CC7

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