[Stoves] China and cookstoves [Was Re: A user-centered, iterative engineering approach for advanced biomass cookstove design and development]

[Nikhil Desai]

Frank:

No argument really. Deciding the properties of the biomass is not that
easy. We would have had a database of solid fuels for household uses around
the world with detailed physical characteristics and ultimate chemical
analyses.

Without the fuel - and the food - stove alone won't do much. What is not of
concern to you for stove design is of central concern to a stove seller. Or
his financiers.

Nikhil



On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 3:35 PM, <franke at cruzio.com> wrote:

> Nikhil, Stovers,
> The goal of stove designing is a stove that will use only the energy
> required and placed at the location it is needed. The TLUD is a fine
> precision machinery that does just that.
>
> As to what people care about and not will differ from people to people and
> location. You give just one example and I am sure that is true for some
> people at some location. But I really don’t care. Its not something of
> concern to me.
>
> The TLUDD extracting the volatile energy required and locating it under
> the pot where released results in the following:
> 1)      Cooler (safer) stove because the char is not combusted.
> 2)      Cooks not cooking over a hot stove
> 3)      Cooks not cooking in a real hot room
> 4)      Char left can be used in another stove
> 5)      Char left is much better for ag soil than high oxides and
> carbonates
> found in ash
> 6)      Much easier to lite than a Rocket type stove
> 7)      Much more predictable than a Rocket type stove.
>
> All the above is, or can be, true once we control the fuel and delivery
> (packing for the TLUD). This done by deciding the properties of biomass
> important and test methods used to evaluate them and certified labs shown
> to be able to conduct the tests.
>
> The Rocket Stove is – well – so Yesterday
> Frank
> Gabilan Laboratory
>
>
>
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