[Stoves] Fw: Alexis Belonio's Rice Husk Gasifier Stove Goes To Tacloban-Leyte.

[Antonio Co]

On Saturday, 22 March 2014, 17:03, Antonio Co <kanvar_ent at yahoo.com> wrote:
 


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                                                                                                   February 20, 2014, arriving Tacloban City, then headed south some 36kms. away - to Brgy San Jose, Dulag, Leyte.

 
Once landed in this part of Leyte Gulf, nobody would ever miss to take a look at this emblem of liberation of WWII Philippines,






But later, be engulfed with a deep sigh of sorrow while passing-by one of these symbol of death, whereupon the roadside becomes one of the many mass graveyards of those who perished at the deluge brought about by Super Typhoon Yolanda on that fateful Friday morning of November 8, 2014.



                                                                                                       



Our very hospitable host, newly elected Brgy. Captain Eva Biliran, who welcomed us in her castle inspired abode for an overnight comfort, and treated us with the taste of waray delicacy, the binagol-a concoction of taro tuber flesh with coconut milk, and moron-a sticky rice mix rolled and palatably colored with variety of hue of violet and or brownish chocolate, both are sweet tooth delights.


   











Arriving a day before our engagement, it's an afternoon delight walking around the locality, posing and taking pictures here and there, in the company of some gracious members of San Jose United Farmers Association, with special mention of Jun Riga and Jane Palejaro.



Majestic towering view of Saint Joseph "The Miracle Worker" Church. 


A typical set up of Tents, this part donated by an NGO from Turkey, serving as temporary shelter for those whose houses are totally wrecked by the recent typhoon.


Mr. Fabian Riga, Jr., the President of San Jose United Farmers Association, a mild mannered man who always wear a ready smile at the slightest provocation, like this one, even when his house at the background was totally reduced to rubble by the onslaught of the super typhoon Yolanda.

  

Foreign NGO's channelling goods and services direct to household level. On the left is provision of a safe drinking water installed at the front yard of a local resident.

At right , a 24hr birthing clinic set up by Bumi Sehat of Indonesia, with one volunteer midwife attendant who happens to be a gorgeous supermodel in her country.



A site visit to the model farm of San Jose United Farmers Association, with some of the members rendering their share of bayanihan spirit by way of tilling the land to be grown vegetable plants. 

The lady in total green revolution attire is the generous owner of the piece of land who offered it to the farmers' organization without any cost and expandable as the need arises, is Ms. Jean Garcia.

 

February 21, 2014, 8:3 0 AM, delegates to the ABS-CBN Foundation sponsored  RHG Seminar Workshop started to converege here at the battered baranggay hall structure of San Jose, Dulag, Leyte.



This will be the main focus of the workshop. Out of squared form of Minola can, a bursting of overwhelming energy is a reality, at lesser cost and down to earth technique, an offshoot to the challenge of Ms. Gina Lopez to Dr. Bernard Tadeo to produce the cheapest and pro-poor model of stove.

Right there and then, they make the same fashion of Rice Husk Gasifier Stove.

1. Removing the top cover.

2. Cutting off a square hole of about 2"x2" at the bottom to
    make way for a small fan that will deliver a pressure
    of air to mix with the carbon monoxide produced
    by the ignited rice husk as raw material fuel.

3. With a little help from a welder, the Top Cover need
    some spot welding and putting a 4" tube as part of
    a burner nozzle.

4. Load the rice husk to the brim. 

5. Ignite with a piece of scratch paper, about the size
    of a crosswise of bond paper, place it on top.

6. Insert the 2"x2" fan, then switch it on.

7. Close it with the Top Cover, put on a used metal pot
    holder or burner crown of a used gas range. 

Remarks:

The whole manufacturing process and performance test is not all the way perfect, but with few faults noted.

1. Problem: Excessive smoke manifested at the early stage
                  of burning, stabilized a smokeless middle part,
                  and recurs again during ending.

    Solution: Put screen at the bottom just above the level of the fan so that it could
                 provide some vacuum space for pressurized air to push the smoke
                 and burns upwards.

2. Problem: Uncontrolled volume of flame. It goes too high at the slightest opening
                  of air passage and goes off when choked abruptly.

   Solution: Make a stable wooden bar to serve as a controllable blockade of air
                 passage behind the fan opening.


Dr. Bernard Tadeo, holding on to a dream of having
"A One Million Biomas Gasifier Stove for Filipino Households"

Discussing the many uses and benefits of RHG by-product.

1. Bio-char mixed w/ chicken manure or other animal dung
    will result in organic fertilizer.

2. Char for cleaning pot, and utensils. It can also be used as
    medium for foot scrub, including face if  you want.
   A sort of "Diatabs" for pigs having diarhea.

3. Ash by product is a natural silica which can be mixed with
    sand and cement in certain proportion which
    will result into a mixture of refractory concrete material.



A pose for Posterity.

Remembering in the future, that we were once mingled with the reselient barrio folks of San Jose, Dulag, Leyte. 

This day will mark the recent time, when one of the strongest typhoon in the world, internationally named Haiyan, wrecked havoc in the lives and properties in this region, which caused around 20,000 casualties according to word of mouth of the survivors themselves. 

The magnitude of this disaster is similar in strength of the one that hit Tacloban in 1897, but death toll is definitely greater today with the sheer growth of population over the years. Haiyan, locally known as Yolanda, is 117 year apart, a lesson I was reminded of in my Hydrometeorology class in college, of which I surmised to be a certain data of a 100 year recurrence period of natural disaster. 



Homeward bound. Waiting for our flight to Manila.

At Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport in Tacloban, you see these days many foreign looking passengers jampacked at the airport.

They are NGO volunteers of the world for the sake of Yolanda victims.

No trace of names of NGO's they are talking about at the House of Congress in Manila.
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