[Stoves] Declaration about Woodgas

[nari phaltan]

Yes producer gas is good for big "very ventilated" kitchens. I feel it can
be used to produce steam and then most of the cooking can be done via steam
cooking. This will also reduce the need for continuously changing turn down
ratio which has the propensity of producing unclean burn and more CO.

Anil

Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI)
Tambmal, Phaltan-Lonand Road
P.O.Box 44
Phaltan-415523, Maharashtra, India
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e-mail:nariphaltan at gmail.com
           nariphaltan at nariphaltan.org

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On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Nikhil Desai <pienergy2008 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Anil:
>
> Point taken. I don't think TLUDs have an explosive mixture, but I will let
> Paul, Ron, and Crispin to respond.
>
> Let me turn things around and ask YOU: if not safe for closed house
> environment, is producer gas from biomass useful for commercial cooking,
> like the "cafeterias for the working poor" you suggested some nine years
> ago? (What I called Sodexho for the poor? At the time I didn't know
> Jayalalitha had Amma's Kitchens in Tamil Nadu and there are Indira Kitchens
> in Karnataka.)
>
> Kitk Smith is obsessed with "household cooking" on which he has no data
> (and he has junked all his own data on different pollutants and mass
> ingestion for the dirty method of concocting concentrations applied to
> three billion people in the world). The future of cooking for the poor is
> not inside but outside the households, just that I need a few million
> dollars to prove Prof. Smith's wrong. (I can instead just quote him to
> himself; that's just a labor of love. Stay tuned.)
>
> Nikhil
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:28 PM, nari phaltan <nariphaltan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Paul. We used producer gas for cooking in late 90s quite a lot for
>> producing syrup from sweet sorghum. The details are at;
>> www.nariphaltan.org/sorghum.pdf together with photos.
>>
>> Wood gas (producer gas) is a clean fuel but dangerous since it is a
>> mixture of CO and H2. If not used with proper ventilation it can be lethal.
>> In closed house environments it is not advisable to use it.
>>
>> Anil
>>
>>
>> Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI)
>> Tambmal, Phaltan-Lonand Road
>> P.O.Box 44
>> Phaltan-415523, Maharashtra, India
>> Ph:+91-9168937964 <+91%2091689%2037964>
>> e-mail:nariphaltan at gmail.com
>>            nariphaltan at nariphaltan.org
>>
>>
>
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