[Stoves] A review of chronological development in cookstove assessment methods: Challenges and way forward

[Ronal W. Larson]

Professor Jain

	1.   Thank you for a tremendously useful document.  Especially that you (Elsevier?, TERI?) have made it available on a non-fee basis (for a SHORT time).

	2.    I am a little surprised (and delighted) that I received this on the climate change list.   I am alerting four other lists who will also find this most useful.

	3.    To me, interested in both climate change (through biochar - not mentioned) and stoves, the most important sentence in your exceedingly thorough (161 cites) is this partial paragraph in Section 2.3.1 (emphases added):

   “The energy expenditure in the form of fuel for boiling and evaporating water is calculated by standardizing the amount of raw fuel with fuel moisture content, ambient temperature, charcoal formed fuel and calorific value of fuel and charcoal. This is called the ‘equivalent dry wood consumed’. Charcoal utilization after the cooking process in real households has not been validated in any of the studies. If the charcoal disposed by targeted population then the fuel consumption can be corrected.   If a certain community has a habit of utilizing the charcoal then …..

the energy stored in the charcoal should be considered as a useful energy.” 

	4.  As I know you know, there is more than one way to report the impact of charcoal production in stove comparisons.  Examples coming.

	5.  I could not find an email address for Ms. (Dr?) Pooja Arora.  I intend to look up other papers she and you have published.  Please congratulate her as well.


Again, thanks for a very useful stove assessment document.  I am aware of nothing like it.

Ron  (first/past “stove” and “biochar” lists coordinator)


On Nov 21, 2015, at 10:09 PM, S. Jain (Env. Engg.) <sureshjiitd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>  
> We are sharing with you an article on Chronological development in cookstove assessment methods: Challenges and way forward. We hope to receive your inputs and comments on the same. 
>  
> Abstract
> This review intended to collect and collate the information related to cookstove testing methodologies applied in lab and field conditions and their output in the form of energy and emission parameters. The important information related to progression of cookstove testing techniques was segregated in order to understand the relationships in different indicators of cookstove performance and to understand the sources of uncertainty in emission data. The major research issue that has been dwelt upon in the recent literature is the establishment of relationship between lab and field results of cookstove performance. It is observed that controlled cooking test and kitchen performance test are the two field based tests which provide a better picture of a particular cookstove performance as it involves the user perspective. Misrepresentation of actual cookstove performance based on laboratory based testing puts the present standard protocols in question. Solutions have been put forward by some research studies; however a validation is needed through multiple scientific investigations conducted at various temporal and spatial scales. It has been observed that cookstove testing methodologies are still in their nascent stage compared to the research that has already been conducted for other sources where biomass combustion emissions have studied thoroughly. Still the shift in focus of upcoming research studies towards field based integrated cookstove testing methodologies has the potential to drive future cookstove research in the new direction.
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> We are providing you with the following personal article link, which will provide free access to your article, and is valid for 50 days, until January 10, 2016
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> http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1S4Na4s9HvhN9u
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> Best regards,
> 
> Suresh Jain, Ph.D.,
> 
> Professor & Head,
> Department of Natural Resources 
> TERI University, New Delhi - 110 070 / India
> https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_jfHgNcAAAAJ&hl=en
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