[Stoves] Cookstoves in acute emergency response

Joshua Guinto jed.building.bridges at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 03:57:11 CDT 2016


Dear Amelia

You just found a very rich and active community of stove designers and
producers. I am certain that you will  receive a lot of brilliant ideas
from this network.

On my part, i am working mostly on terra cotta stove, those that can be
produced by local artisans, hopefully the artisans who are in the same
areas of crisis.

I focused on clay stoves because
 (1) they can be manufactured locally using clay and with basic clay
working skills and materials and without electricity (2)  They can outlive
the usable life of the equivalent stoves built in metal (3) clay is highly
insulating thus the heat is preserved inside the fire chamber (5) safe to
use and does not get too hot to touch thus reduce the risks of accidental
burns while cooking. (6) They can also look more beautiful by integrating
local cultural concepts as sculpture into the clay

The downside is that they can break due to handling and they are much
heavier than their metal counterparts. They also take time to be built,
that is waiting for the clay to dry and require kilns for baking and thus
difficult to rapidly replicated in mass.

For some references to my work please follow the following links.

http://www.drtlud.com/2015/11/23/anatomy-of-the-papabrick-stove/

https://briquettestoves.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UdqXOFQ9Cc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-x8omZFO1Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB0AdxlXyNg

All the best

Jed




*Joshua B. Guinto*Specialist, Appropriate Technology
MSc Management of AgroEcological Knowledge and Social Change (MAKS)
Wageningen University, The Netherlands 2006 to 2008
Recipient, International Fellowships Programme  Award (IFP) 2005
Ford Foundation


2016-09-28 13:41 GMT+08:00 Amelia Young <a.young11 at student.unimelb.edu.au>:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm conducting some research in partnership with the UNHCR and EWB looking
> at cookstoves for acute crisis/emergency response scenarios.
> My research seeks to develop design criteria for an emergency cooking
> solution for rapid deployment in crisis situations i.e. use by refugees in
> transition.
> The problems it seeks to address are short-term fuel scarcity, food
> security and human security (e.g. gender based violence) issues for
> displaced populations when fleeing their homes.
> Looking to this community for important performance metrics/considerations
> (technical, social and cultural) of stoves in this particular context. The
> idea is that a selection tool could be used in pre-disaster assessment
> and emergency preparedness or post-disaster assessment to determine the
> most appropriate cookstoves for dissemination in crisis. The main
> objectives for a solution in this context are portability, ease-of-use,
> low-cost and fuel efficiency an appropriate stove would then presumably
> differ by region based on local cooking practices and other cultural
> indicators.
>
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated,
>
>
> Amelia Young
> Masters of Environmental Engineering student
> Melbourne School of Engineering
> University of Melbourne, 3010
> AUSTRALIA
>
> Phone 0061 499 826 293
> Email aayoung at student.unimelb.edu.au
>
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