[Stoves] News 7 September 2016: "Clean Cookstoves Need Better Performance Guidelines" (ES&T)

Thu Sep 8 02:55:42 CDT 2016

There is an interesting blog that underlines the problem with present modelling:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/07/28/fail-carbon-financed-cookstove-fails-to-deliver-hoped-for-benefits-in-the-field/

In this case it is fairly clear the lab work was not guided by any field study.  The field work showed the user needed to simmer during the cooking cycle, which wasn’t taken into account when the new stove was specified.

There is no point in WHO modelling emissions to within a mg/m3 if the user can operate at 100 times that level. Emissions must be matched to fuel, stove and the full burn sequence during cooking if there is to be any hope of avoiding this type of debacle.

Prof Philip Lloyd

Energy Institute, CPUT

SARETEC, Sachs Circle

Bellville

Tel 021 959 4323

Cell 083 441 5247

PA Nadia 021 959 4330

From: Stoves [mailto:stoves-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Ronal W. Larson
Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2016 12:18 AM
To: Traveller; Discussion of biomass
Subject: Re: [Stoves] News 7 September 2016: "Clean Cookstoves Need Better Performance Guidelines" (ES&T)

Nikhil and list:

            This just came in for 5 days from now.  Happens to be heavy on WHO.

The key link  is 

 <https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6749480047610317058> This webinar

which takes you to:  https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6749480047610317058

            I suggest waiting until after this webinar to answer your questions about WHO and stoves.

Ron

Using Stove Emissions Data to Estimate Air Quality:

An overview of World Health Organization current modeling approaches and future plans

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT / 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT

 <https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6749480047610317058> This webinar will provide background on how stove emissions can be related to concentrations of indoor air quality and vice versa. The modeling approach to be described is the same as that used for the development of the emissions guidance in the International Workshop Agreement 11:2012:  <https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:iwa:11:ed-1:v1:en> Guidelines for evaluating cookstove performance; and the  <http://www.who.int/indoorair/guidelines/hhfc/en/> WHO Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality: Household Fuel Combustion.

In addition to describing how the model can be used to estimate air quality or derive emissions targets, the presentation will include background on the WHO’s work on providing guidance in the household energy sector and planned future activities.  These future activities include expanding the model’s capabilities (e.g., accounting for stove stacking), as well as providing an interactive web version of the model for which regionally-based data can be input for more relevant local application. The webinar will conclude with a discussion on policy implications, and the interpretation and application of performance targets.   

Webinar speakers include:

Heather Adair-Rohani, Technical Officer, Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organization

Nigel Bruce, Professor of Public Health, Department of Public Health and Policy, University of Liverpool; Consultant, World Health Organization

Michael Johnson, Senior Scientist, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group

Register today  <https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6749480047610317058> HERE! Webinar participation is free. For the web portion, a high-speed internet connection is required. The webinar technology allows attendees to listen to audio through their computer or by phone. Additional log-in information will be provided upon registration. For more information on this webinar, please contact:  <mailto:moderator at cookstovesandindoorair.org> moderator at cookstovesandindoorair.org  

On Sep 7, 2016, at 1:36 PM, Traveller <miata98 at gmail.com> wrote:

Clean Cookstoves Need Better Performance Guidelines Daniel L. Wilson, LBNL

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.5b05628 

"However, while emission rate and indoor concentration are mechanistrically linked, indoor concentrations from episodic sourcese are not meaningfully linked with respiratory intake or uptake.4 The implicit assumption of today’s standards is that a cookstove with lower emission rates will lead to lower indoor concentrations of pollutants and will therefore be safer for the user. However, this assumption is not necessarily true."

Amen. 

What next? Would somebody talk about cooking deaths and the basis of WHO IAQ Guidelines? 

Or about what service standard a "performance standard" is to be sought to linked to? 

Or whether exposure changes and disease incidence can be predicted over the next 30 years with any degree of reliability? 

Who are scientists accountable to, even when they are (or not) accountable to themselves? 

Time to bring on lawyers and economists to examine proper use of taxpayers' money. (Foundations are subsidized via tax exemptions.)

Would anybody consider going back to the basics - what is cooking, why is cooking, who is cooking, how is cooking? 

Nikhil

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