[Stoves] Day 2 Report on Day #1 (Saturday) of ETHOS conference

Sun Jan 31 08:09:38 CST 2016

Dear Ron

Wonderful synopsis. Thanks so much.

I notice your reference to another stove that is as clean as LPG (also burning wood pellets). The Mimi-Moto.

This stove pitched up in Yogyakarta for the CSI pilot (recently) in name and brochure if not in fact ‎and it has WBT metrics (well, some of them anyway). I expect it will be retested using the CSI test to get relevant metrics to see what the performance prediction is in use.

It is the first stove with a fan I have heard claim PM below what India says is the LPG number (I have no reason to question the Indian test report).  The one I reported on in November (made in Indonesia) is ND.  Fan stoves I have tested all have significant (meaning clearly detectable) PM4.0 appear as soon as the fan is turned on (ash).

This is an important step forward.

Two additional ‎comments: I note you mentioning that the TLUD was not an option in the advanced stove studies (because of the refuelling issue?) and I re-emphasize that multiple people are reporting PM emissions similar to LPG now going on for six years. This is a game changer. Remember that the bogey man here is the unsupported claim that 'solid fuels cannot be burned cleanly'.  Quite obviously they can.

As the knowledge and power of modern science and engineering is applied to the problems of household the poor ‎we can expect more transformational technologies being invented around the world.

Thanks
Crispin

List:

        This is really day #1 of the Official ETHOS conference;  Yesterday (Friday) was informal.  To really understand the layout - see the agenda at
        http://www.ethoscon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ETHOS-2016-Agenda-revJan28.pdf <http://www.ethoscon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ETHOS-2016-Agenda-revJan28.pdf>.  I’ll identify the sessions by the times listed there.  Missing times are for breaks and lunch/dinner.

7:30-8:30  Most of 8-10 booths open for chatting with individuals - with breakfast materials available

I.  8:30    Opening by Elisa Derby;   Introduced ETHOS board  (I don’t see them at the above site, but these are some:   Dana Charon,  Paul Means.  Larry Winiarski, Jessica Trainer,  John Mitchell )

II.   9‐10am   Plenary Discussion: Global Alliance update
Ranyee Chiang + 3  (1 missing who couldn’t make it)  See http://cleancookstoves.org/about/our-team/index.html <http://cleancookstoves.org/about/our-team/index.html>
Brian Smith  (COO),  Richard Grinnell (South America specialist),  Neeraja Penumetcha (reporting, etc)

        As last year, the attendees were asked to choose a category from about a dozen.  All the slides will be up in a few weeks at the ETHOS site.
Topics and key words (sort of in order):   Market change,  Health,  Budget commitments ($413 Millions of 2014),  Behavior Change Communication (BCC),  Marketing,  Evaluation and learnings,  8 focus countries (China, India, +6);  “Catalog”  (Need for more submissions - see http://catalog.cleancookstoves.org/ <http://catalog.cleancookstoves.org/>);  problems in selling to governments-NGO-real customers;  Chasing Numbers (not true - 28 Million in 2014 out of target 100 Million stoves by 2020)
        Main equation:   Tech/fuels   X  adoption/use/ventilation  X scale  = benefits for health, environment, livelihoods
Last 5 minutes:   Clean and Efficient,  Funding Decision,  Local - International,  Ghana conference

III.  10‐11am Department of Energy Biomass Stoves Grant update
 Elliott Levine of DoE moderated;  slides all coming
  A.  Dave stokes  RTI  -  Thermoelectric with stoves
  B.   Ashok Gadgil (Berkeley National Lab)-  Thin film thermoelectric generator   5.3 kW  2.9  kW for simmer;  changing diffusion flame towards pre-mixed;  excellent graphs for 4 stoves + three stone fire;  No TLUDs
  C.  Tim Theiss   -  ORNL  - mostly on stainless alloys, finding that a FeCrSi alloy (to yet being marketed) looks quite promising.  1000 hour tests with salted woods
  D.  Jonathan  Posner   U Washington  achieved all Tier 4 with a (highly modified) Rocket,  working with Burn Lab
some study of TLUDs

IV.   11:30‐12:30pm Three-way session breakout;  I went to #3 on TLUDs
 A.   TLUD  modeling - Tillotson,  CSU  - Nice work with "Phase 2” study of adding fuel after main early pyrolysis (not good results)
 B.  Paul Anderson  - Ten Topics he is personally involved with  (ew key words that I wrote down)
        1.  Uganda Kenya;  T-CHAR  Awamu, Wisdom;  Niko Koa from Burn Mfg
        2.  Ghana  Abellon;  KNUST   Troika
        3.   South Africa;    FAABulous (Fan Assisted Appliance Base    w David Lello (see below)
        4.  Cameroon,  Sierra Leone
        5.  Guatemala:  Lake Atitlan;  Plancha,  AMSCLAE , bamboo,  C4 kilns,  Gustavo Pena
        6.  Haiti:  El Fuego delSol  (FdS
        7. TLUD-RH-F2A;  rice husk,  Joseph James
        8.  Bangladesh  and Canada;  with Julien Winter
        9.  Guatemala, El Salvador, USA, Ghana and Brazil;  C4 =  Controlled Covered Continuous Cavity;  Flame curtain
        10. Portugal and USA:  Gamdaric Industries ;  James Schoner
Biochar conf.  22-25 August
Displayed new stove from China - Mimi-Moto (design from Netherlands); as clean as LPG;    $38 wholesale

V   2:00-3:10:   Facilitated Discussion: Moving toward “cleaner” cooking energy systems at all levels
John Mitchell moderating;  5 min presentations (names not in agenda) + audience Q/A
        1.  Christa Roth (GIZ):  Health,  Climate,  Poverty,  Forest Degradation;  “Development Goals”;  Moisture content;  Ref Prof. Pam Jagger,  Fuel Lab,  Univ.  North Carolina;   SEC3  = Sustainable Energy and Cleaner Cooking Coalition; see  www.cleanercooking.org
        2.  Brian Smith (GACC) Tools -  Clean Cooking catalog (includes fuels);  FACIT  (Fuel Analysis, Comparison, & Integration Tool
        3.  Michael Johnson  (Berkeley);  WHO book  (Household ….Consumption);  AQG  (Exposure risk curve plots)
        4.  Nordica  McCarty; now (after Iowa State - Prof at OSU  (humanitarian engineering program);  Climate emphasis - used Nate Johnson data for Mali village  approx 6 MJ/yr per person;  thesis paper with Bryden  2015;  Emphasis on usability and adoption
        5.  Paul Means,  Burn Lab;  Why do people pick particular stoves;  need to push envelope;  “learning can be fun”
        7.  Cristal Cheong - Malawi is poorest country

Q time (for 35 minutes)
        Random comments from attendees:  Rocket opening size problems;  Peer pressure (more came to use);  opposite: refusal to change;  lessons from health studies (Malaria).   Often promoting a technology is  predictable - but not same for stoves.   Need to think of attractiveness;   have to figure out what women want;  coming carbon negativity possibilities for biochar from biomass - but stoves could then be more modern - future low cost electricity, liquids and gasses all possible from biomass with char output.

VI   3:50‐4:50pm Breakout again.   I went to #1  Financing/distribution
   A.  Vahid Jahangiri  /Creative Distribution Models in Haiti and Uganda
 Used Community Development Clubs  for financing with WASH;  now his group is a main stove player in Haiti,  working with plastic collection centers  (sell stoves there);  at some large factories can sell through paycheck deductions;  gave 5 elements of success, such as context dynamics & synergies  (slides coming)
    B.  Obama Stove - Luni Libes of Fledge group (Seattle);  funding early entrepreneurs from developing countries ($20k each +10-week training);  have had 52 graduates (7 at a time);  Example: Ethiopia with ceramic charcoal burner;  250 k units sold,  now using 1 large briquette
    C.  Dave Lello of Capetown  “Bridging the price gap between ND TLUDs and FA TLUDs with a PAYG option”;   putting together an energy package for $20/month with solar PV;  phone recharge and stove fan;  using  PAYGo;  only need add 2-3 PV watts for stove fan.

VII. 5‐5:30pm   Panel Discussion: ISO update
        There are 4 Working Groups:  - working on tight timetables.  I missed most of this, but know John Mitchell, Ranyee Chiang and Elisa Derby reported.  They should be contacted for specific responsibilities.
        Example WG4  (Elisa Derby subbing here) Social Impacts:  covers Social-economic, Gender, Employment, Time Use, Perceptions of factors related to well-being,  Health, Accidents and safety, Exposures,  Environmental - all these on a per capita basis;
 Final Working and Committee drafts due in March and April 2016

VIII:  7:15 - 8:00  Open Space
        John Mitchell coordinating two groups - one biochar related (I went to) and one on materials.   Art Donnelly was the leader with Paul Anderson, by virtue of suggesting the topic;  about 25 attending here.  Art gave background on his work in Costa Rica (mostly) in six villages using bamboo with water filtration aspects and cacao;  emphasis on loosening clay soils;  Tom Miles noted use in seedling growth (saving money over vermiculite).  I noted uses to replace liming, feed to cattle, evening out a field;  saving water and fertilizer, mine-land reclamation;  Cool Vege sales in Japan; fire intensity reduction,  sandy soil improvement,  invasive species.  Paul Anderson noted the list of 55 ways to use biochar in paper by Hans-Peter Schmidt.

Apologies for errors and omissions above.

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