[Stoves] A Laboratory Assessment of 120 Air Pollutant Emissions from Biomass and Fossil Fuel Cookstoves

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

I noticed that immediately.



This helps kill the notion that kerosene is a "dirty fuel".  The root of the idea is a claim from a study in India where people use kerosene in a glass tumbler with a cloth wick hanging out of it, as a lamp.



Incidentally, the pressure head made by our Stove List reader Sujatha is better than the Indian Roarer Head by some measure. It is not just the stove and the fuel that can be varied. Sujatha's burner head is the work of her father and it out-performs all competition. It is a carefully balanced piece of work. Installing that head on anyone's pressure stove improves the performance and reduces needed maintenance, and of course reduces emissions at the same time.  How it does that is a secret, but you can still get one for about a dollar.



I remind you about the FSP stove from South Africa which has a novel burner that does not involved a standard pressure head. It has extremely low emissions as well.



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Regards

Crispin



On 9 Jun 2019 at 12:48, Tom Miles wrote:



> In contrast, the pressurized kerosene and LPG stoves reduced all

> pollutants relative to a traditional three-stone fire (>=93% and

> >=79% respectively)



So, pressurized kerosene was cleaner than LPG?



Neil Taylor


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