<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Nolbert cc list<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1a. Your reference below to “Jackson and Richard” and “forestry college” is not clear. Googling led me to this Worldbank 2013 stove document </div><div class=""><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTAFRREGTOPENERGY/Resources/ACCES_Uganda_consultation_report.pdf" class="">http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTAFRREGTOPENERGY/Resources/ACCES_Uganda_consultation_report.pdf</a></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Where I see those two names. Same? (Also see yours and many other regulars on this list.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1b. I am down on using charcoal for cooking. This is one sentence from that document: <i class="">“Participant discussion emphasized the need for consumer awareness and behavior change for adoption
of cleaner fuels for displacing charcoal</i>.” Is this attitude helping your sales?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1c. This report seems to have a complete outline of how to get better stoves into the field (not limited to Uganda) - at least as of 2012. It has nice diagrams for five aspects:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Quality Assurance and Technical Support</div><div class=""> Business Development</div><div class=""> Consumer Engagement</div><div class=""> Access to Finance</div><div class=""> Policy Engagement</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>where this list can help a little on the first and last areas. How would you rate progress in Uganda on all five?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. I visited your own company site ( <a href="http://awamu.ug/" class="">http://awamu.ug/</a> ) and saw a nice looking char-making stove at $17.50. Good price! Congratulations. Also showed 4 types of fuel. Anything you can add on local experiences with your stove? Some of the char being used as biochar? Has this stove gone through any of the “tier” testing we heard about in today’s Winrock/GACC/DoE webinar (which I thought was very good)?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ron</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 21, 2016, at 12:34 AM, Nolbert Muhumuza <<a href="mailto:muhumuza@gmail.com" class="">muhumuza@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Tom,<br class=""><br class=""></div>YES, those are the true links to the forestry college (Jackson and Richard). So, there are some directed efforts to train students in Biomass energy and improved cookstoves in Uganda. <br class=""><br class=""></div>We are working closely with the two individuals since they are personally known to me but are also very knowledgeable in these areas.<br class=""></div>I dont know if i mentioned, but they are also setting up an updated testing lab to start operations in the near future.<br class=""><br class=""></div>Nolbert.<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">2016-02-20 21:44 GMT+03:00 Tom Miles <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:tmiles@trmiles.com" target="_blank" class="">tmiles@trmiles.com</a>></span>:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US" class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="">Ron,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="">The missing years (2004-Jan 2006) may have been when we experienced a software change by our host at that time. They were renewable energy organizations that eventually used volunteers to manage the sites. The volunteers made bad decisions about software and didn’t stay to fix them. After struggling with the software and the archives we created the <a href="http://bioenergylists.org/" target="_blank" class="">bioenergylists.org</a> domain in March 2006 where we have sponsored and hosted the lists since then. I know that we have rebuilt the archives for the lost period but I’ll have to get my IT support to access them. <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="">Tom<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><div class=""><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""> Ronal W. Larson [mailto:<a href="mailto:rongretlarson@comcast.net" target="_blank" class="">rongretlarson@comcast.net</a>] <br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b> Friday, February 19, 2016 12:44 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b> Discussion of biomass <<a href="mailto:stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank" class="">stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>>; Tom Miles <<a href="mailto:tmiles@trmiles.com" target="_blank" class="">tmiles@trmiles.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b> Re: [Stoves] Version 2.0 of TLUD history is available<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p></div></div><div class=""><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Tom (thanks for your account below) and list<u class=""></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><long snip></div><div><br class=""></div><div>This next from material supplied by Julien. Are one or more of these cites what you (Nolbert) are referencing re the two names you gave?</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> biomass cookstoves and their mechanism of combustion. Only recently has this strated to change with graduate students working on TLUD stoves:</p></div><div class=""><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><br class="">Huangfu, Y; Li, H; Chen, X; Xue, C; Chen C; Liu, G. 2014. Effects of moisture content in fuel on thermal performance and emission of biomass semi-gasified cookstove. Energy for Sustainable Development 21: 60–65<br class="">Varunkumar, S; Rajan, NKS; Mukunda, HS. 2011b. Single particle and packed bed combustion in modern gasifier stoves—density effects. Combustion Science and Technology 183: 1147-1163.<span class=""> </span><br class="">Varunkumar, S; Rajan, NKS; Mukunda, HS. 2011a. Experimental and computational studies on a gasifier based stove. Energy Conversion and Management 53: 135–141<br class="">Varunkumar, S; Rajan, NKS; Mukunda, HS. 2013. Universal flame propagation behaviour in packed bed of biomass. Combustion Science and Technology, DOI:10.1080/00102202.2013.782297<span class=""> </span><br clear="all" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Fortunately, the combustion scientists are beginning to take an interest, because issues in Global ecology are becoming acute. More graduate students are appearing.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">What I think we need more of is help for the practical cookstove developers. There needs to be scientific capacity-building, access through the academic paywalls, and access to basic measurement equipment. There needs to be strong system of mentoring around the World so that these two communities — practicioners and scientists — become better connected and work together.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">All the best,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Julien<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><br class="">--<span class=""> </span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Julien Winter<br class="">Cobourg, ON, CANADA<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif" class="">_______________________________________________</span></p></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class=""><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif" class=""><snip><br class=""></span></p></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Nolbert Muhumuza<br class="">President & Chief Operations Officer<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Awamu Biomass Energy Ltd.</b><br class="">P.O. Box 40127, Nakawa<br class="">Kampala - Uganda.<br class="">Mobile: +256-776-346724</div><div class=""> +256-701-346723<br class="">Skype: nolbertm<br class=""><a href="http://www.awamu.ug/" target="_blank" class="">www.awamu.ug</a><br class=""><a href="http://www.facebook.com/awamubiomass" target="_blank" class="">Facebook</a> | <a href="http://www.twitter.com/awamubiomass" target="_blank" class="">Twitter</a></div><div class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.seedinit.org/awards/all/awamu-biomass-energy-ltd.html" target="_blank" class=""><b class="">SEED Award 2013 Winner</b></a><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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