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Dear Frank</div>
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You ask a very important question: it is about the 'thermal efficiency'. </div>
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Do you think that the thermal efficiency refers to the fuel consumption? Because you are in a sense outside the system, your opinion matters. If you are under the impression that the thermal efficiency tells us something about a stove, what is it exactly?</div>
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Because 'thermal efficiency' can mean half a dozen things at least, the perception of its meaning is important. Hence my interest. </div>
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"<span style="line-height: initial;">And we (you people) choose the stove for them and purchase in bulk. Am I right?"</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: initial;">No. I have never been involved in the bulk purchase of stoves. It is always some sort of assisted purchased with the models open to the vendors to try to sell. The supported models are tested first to see if they meet the
program goals and customer preferences. People but what they want. In a refugee camp situation I believe the UNHCR, for example, does buy stoves in bulk and hand them out to camp occupants. That is a small % of stoves sold. There are models of stove that
are only available through such programs, meaning they are not on the open market.</span></div>
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Sometimes the preferences for the purchaser align with the promoting agency, sometimes not. In Ulaanbaatar the customers wanted fuel savings (kg per day) and the project wanted PM2.5 reduction. Both were provided in the approved models. </div>
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The confusing thing is when the fuel saving is overstated because people report some proxy for the heat transfer efficiency instead of the energy consumption (represented by kg consumed). </div>
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It is a surprise to me that this has been so difficult to resolve. If it uses more fuel per day, then reporting that it 'uses less energy' is misleading. Right?</div>
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<div class="">People buy cars not due to gas millage. They buy pick up trucks to haul dirt, old cars to save money, new cars so neighbors think they are rich, vans so they can crawl in the back to sleep and save on motels on road trips. Then there is the most
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<div class="">The mistake the ’stove community’ makes is that they think they know why someone purchases a stove and they then tell them what stove they should buy. All we need to do is state what the stove is expected to do and the products left behind (ash,
char) and let them pick. Of course producing the most clean burning stove and high thermal efficiency for a task should be our goal - but that does not necessarily compute to the one someone should purchase. </div>
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<div class="">OK - I am not in the ‘field’ working like most of others. And stoves are being sold to many different clients. And the one we are all mostly targeting are the poorest of the poor. The ones really suffering. And we (you people) choose the stove
for them and purchase in bulk. Am I right? </div>
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<div class="">So it is important to have a selection (and qualities listed) to pick from *designed to use the fuel available* and *complete the task needed*. </div>
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<span class="" style="font-family:'Slate Pro'">If the energy released in the chamber is important, you should argue why, and to whom, and what, if anything, it offers a customer while being free to describe various consumers of the information. </span></div>
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<div class="">Everyone on this list working in the field knows more than I BUT from my learning it seems the poorest of the poor has a short supply of fuel, that it is being depleted and dangerous to obtain. Based on that we need very efficient stoves. And
regardless of that we should be trying to produce them anyway - good science. And clean burning and less fuel for a task = clean air and better health. </div>
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<div class="">And we are only talking cooking stoves - not room heating stoves or giving light. The others are for a different ’task’. </div>
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<div class="">One of the most interesting things about the stove community to me is that they can’t design a test method for testing stoves with variables controlled and targeted for a specific fuel and location. All the heat transfer efficiency values that
I know of has been done without control of the variables (Box 1) and fuel not representing a specific site - except for the studies done on site that are very costly and offer very little in the way of stove choices. </div>
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<div class="">On Nov 21, 2015, at 7:30 PM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <<a href="mailto:crispinpigott@outlook.com" class="">crispinpigott@outlook.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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Dear Frank</div>
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<span class="" style="font-family:'Slate Pro'">"The importance of ‘outside’ the stove is left to the end user and is used to pick one stove over another."</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family:'Slate Pro'">Well, that is why people buy cars based on their fuel consumption. The compression ratio and the combustion efficiency is not useful information for the customer, only the design engineers. </span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family:'Slate Pro'">One of the most interesting things about the stove designing community is a historical obsession with the heat transfer efficiency. It was never a good guide to fuel consumption and with the advent of char makers,
has become positively toxic to the stove selection process. People think they are being told the fuel consumption when they see "efficiency" numbers. </span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family:'Slate Pro'">If the energy released in the chamber is important, you should argue why, and to whom, and what, if anything, it offers a customer while being free to describe various consumers of the information. </span></div>
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Which would you finance: a reduction in the energy drawn from the forest? Or a reduction in the energy released from the fuel consumed?</blockquote>
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<div class="">1) (Crispin added) a reduction in the energy drawn from the forest?</div>
<div class="">2) the time it takes to gather fuel</div>
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<div class="">4) the type of fuel that is used (vegetative matter, dead twigs, wood)</div>
<div class="">5) business possibilities gathering wood</div>
<div class="">6) char (or not) being made</div>
<div class="">7) reduction of degrees of hazard gathering biomass</div>
<div class="">8) the number of wheelbarrow loads of wood being moved</div>
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<div class="">All equal as a measure as the ‘reduction of energy drawn from the forest’. The importance of looking at it from outside the stove depends on the site specific situation. So for our purpose of testing stoves it is only important to look at it from
inside the combustion chamber - “reduction of energy released from fuel consumption”. The importance of ‘outside’ the stove is left to the end user and is used to pick one stove over another. </div>
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<div class="">Therefore we only need to calculate the Energy Used in the Combustion Chamber in a 1) repeatable 2) accurate 3) with precision 4) and common producible results from all (certified) labs doing the tests. The ‘outside’ results can then be determined
on a site specific and importance for the potential purchaser. </div>
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<div class="">So we start with Box 1 and get control of the fuel. Place limits on the fuel for a specific combustion chamber. Market the stove to locations having that fuel with those limits available. </div>
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