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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear Ron,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>« </span><b>The ISO process is open to every country - and is progressing well mostly (I listen in from time to time). »<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The gates are open, but I don’t know how to pass through them. Sally Seitz and Ranyee Chiang kindly asked me if wanted to get updates from the TC 285 discussions, I said yes. Several times. I am still waiting. I asked the AFNOR in Paris, but it doesn’t seem like having France as part of the TC 285 is one of their priorities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The ISO is a black box to me. If anyone can direct me to regular sources of information or ways I can join, I’d be most thankful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>« The WBT IS valuable »<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Can you explain what is valuable about the WBT?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>« and should stay until replaced with something better »<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>There is already something better! Better is not right word: there is already something valid, as opposed to the invalidity of the WBT. There’s be something valid for a long time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>There are the CSI method and HTP protocol.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>They are here, I sent the link to you long ago:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5rmmRmIsdlnQlRQX3A1cXVOQ3M?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5rmmRmIsdlnQlRQX3A1cXVOQ3M?usp=sharing</a> <span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Tell me why you think they cannot replace the WBT?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Tom, this question is also addressed to you, since last time, I think you were saying there wasn’t yet an alternative.<br>What is so unique about the WBT that cannot be done by the CSI nor HTP?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>All “the experts” I trust are advocating continued use of the WBT.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ron, can you please list all the experts who, now, today, still advocate continued use of the WBT?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I know there is you, and there is Dean Still with whom I discussed over emails.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Can you please name these experts Ron?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You are talking about « Crispin’s » experts. I cannot help but think about the people who reviewed the CSI and HTP and highlighted the problems with the WBT.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The 2 (long) lists are below this email.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ron, can you please critique their work? Critique the reviews or the studies? What is it that you don’t agree with?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ron, or anyone, can you please share a list of reviews of the WBT protocol?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>As you said Ron, the WBT has been used for decades. It shouldn’t be difficult then to get a list of reviews by external researchers showing how scientifically valid the WBT is.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>7 months ago, the 26/01, I asked you Ron on this List several very specific questions, referring to the WBT issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You never responded.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I ask you these questions again, they refer to the text of the paper of Riva and al., paper that you can find here:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308898807_Fuzzy_interval_propagation_of_uncertainties_in_experimental_analysis_for_improved_and_traditional_three_-_Stone_fire_cookstoves">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308898807_Fuzzy_interval_propagation_of_uncertainties_in_experimental_analysis_for_improved_and_traditional_three_-_Stone_fire_cookstoves</a> :<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ron, in the WBT,<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo13'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>do you contest the role of thermodynamic uncertainties (viz. variable steam production and boiling point determination) on results repeatability? Can you ensure there are no uncertainties? Of if there are, can you ensure they have no effect on results repeatability? How?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo13'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>do you have an answer to the questions about the rationale of some calculations raised by Zhang et al.?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo13'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>do you support the statistical approach recommended by this standardised laboratory-based test (the WBT) to evaluate, communicate and compare performances and emissions of tested stoves, i.e. using the arithmetic average of three replicate tests? How do you guarantee this statistical approach ensure good comparison of stove performances?<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Xavier<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Reviews of the HTP and CSI<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The HTP was officially reviewed by an external expert group as required by the IWA 2012:11. The World Bank office in Beijing commissioned SGS Netherlands which provided a report after investigating the equipment, test protocol and calculations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The Ulaanbaatar Clean Air Project test method for approving stove performance is the HTP before the CSI contextual portion was added, though the test conducted is in fact based on current observed practice. The Ulaanbaatar Clean Air Project test method has been reviewed and/or approved by:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l11 level2 lfo11;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Mongolian University of Science and Technology, Prof Tseyen-Oidov and others<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l11 level2 lfo11;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Ulaanbaatar Clean Air Project, Operations Manager & Chief Engineer, Ms D Tsendsuren <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l11 level2 lfo11;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Dr B Odonkhishig and Dr Jargalsaikhan Buriad, head and Director, respectively, of the SEET Laboratory in Ulaanbaatar<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l11 level2 lfo11;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>SGS Laboratories, Netherlands (who conduct most of the stove tests for EU certification), WB contract<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l11 level2 lfo11;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Team experts under Akeo Fukuyama, from the Environment Division of JICA contractor Suuri-Keikaku Co. Ltd.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l11 level2 lfo11;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Millennium Challenge Account – Mongolia (MCA-Mongolia is the local branch of the Millennium Challenge C<a name="_GoBack"></a>orporation, USA) which spend $20m on stove subsidies based on the results of the tests <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l11 level2 lfo11;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>National University of Mongolia, Prof Lodoysamba, Innovation Manager, Department of Research (nuclear physicist and air quality expert)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l11 level2 lfo11;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>GTZ building energy efficiency programme in Ulaanbaatar, headed by Ruth Erlbeck (reviewed by her head technical man and a young German MSc physicist Mr Henning Schulte-Huxel who wrote a lot of the chemical balance calculation block on the FUELS tab)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The CSI Test Protocol which includes the contextual test method appended to the HTP test method and calculations has been reviewed by:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo12;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>World Bank technical review team for Indonesia (their infrastructure engineer and technical reviewer)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo12;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>College of Engineering, China Agricultural University (CAU), Prof Renjie Dong, head of the National Key Laboratory for Biogas, reviewed it at the request of the Senior Economist heading the CSI-Indonesia Pilot<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo12;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Yixiang Zhang, PhD candidate, College of engineering, CAU. He has published several reviews of certain aspects of the test method and its calculations.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo12;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Degan Ostogic, Lead Energy specialist (engineer) in the WB Energy and Extractives supervising the CSI-Indonesia Stove Pilot, he also required a demonstration of the method in action.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo12;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The head of stove testing at a Western nation’s national regulatory body has reviewed the method for generating the Technical Test from a set of Cooking Tests. This provides the contextual element of the CSI Method.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo12;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Prof Harold Annegarn, nuclear physicist, then at the Department of Geography Environmental Management and Energy Studies, University of Johannesburg<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo12;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Engineer David Beritault, formerly with GERES, for years the head of the Cambodian stove testing lab and now with CARITAS Switzerland, made a very detailed review of the concepts and calculations underlying the method. He is a co-author of ISO TC-285 WG2, 19867 Part 2.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo12;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>James Robinson, BSc (Eng), MSc (Eng), MSc (aeronautics), former head of the SeTAR Centre, University of Johannesburg.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo12;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Dr Tafadzwa Makonese, Head of the SeTAR Centre, Research Village, University of Johannesburg <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo12;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Indonesian BNI (National Standards Body technical committee) made a conceptual review with the intention of replacing their current Draft National Standard (which at present uses an early SeTAR Centre heat transfer efficiency test protocol, the forerunner of the HTP.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Papers pointing at issues with the WBT<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Fuzzy interval propagation of uncertainties in experimental analysis for improved and traditional three–stone fire cookstoves</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308898807_Fuzzy_interval_propagation_of_uncertainties_in_experimental_analysis_for_improved_and_traditional_three_-_Stone_fire_cookstoves">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308898807_Fuzzy_interval_propagation_of_uncertainties_in_experimental_analysis_for_improved_and_traditional_three_-_Stone_fire_cookstoves</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l12 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Key differences of performance test protocols for household biomass cookstoves. Twenty-Second Domestic Use of Energy, IEEE 2014:1–11.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://energyuse.org.za/document-archive/">http://energyuse.org.za/document-archive/</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>To access the file, select DUE [Domestic Use of energy COnference]. Select DUE 2014. Select PROCEEDINGS. Select paper by Zhang etal (PDFs arranged alphabetically).<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Performance testing for monitoring improved biomass stove interventions: experiences of the Household Energy and Health Project. Energy Sustainable Dev 2007;11:57–70. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.461.783&rep=rep1&type=pdf">http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.461.783&rep=rep1&type=pdf</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo4'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The shortcomings of the U.S. protocol</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1534&context=etd">http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1534&context=etd</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo5'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Influence of testing parameters on biomass stove performance and development of an improved testing protocol</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="https://envirofit.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2012-influence-of-testing-parameters.pdf">https://envirofit.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2012-influence-of-testing-parameters.pdf</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>How many replicate tests are needed to test cookstove performance and emissions? — Three is not always adequate.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://gadgillab.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/D-13-00075-Wang-et-al._final.pdf">http://gadgillab.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/D-13-00075-Wang-et-al._final.pdf</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo7'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Systematic and conceptual errors in standards and protocols for thermal performance of biomass stoves</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309689616_Systematic_and_conceptual_errors_in_standards_and_protocols_for_thermal_performance_of_biomass_stoves">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309689616_Systematic_and_conceptual_errors_in_standards_and_protocols_for_thermal_performance_of_biomass_stoves</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo8'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Quality assurance for cookstoves testing centers: calculation of expanded uncertainty for WBT<br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.newdawnengineering.com/website/library/Stove%20Testing/Testing%20Protocols/American%20WBT,%20CCT,%20KPT/2014%20March%20WBT%204.2.x%20Uncertainty,%20Gorrity,%20M.pdf">http://www.newdawnengineering.com/website/library/Stove%20Testing/Testing%20Protocols/American%20WBT,%20CCT,%20KPT/2014%20March%20WBT%204.2.x%20Uncertainty,%20Gorrity,%20M.pdf</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo9'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Key factors of thermal efficiency test protocols</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1000.3936&rep=rep1&type=pdf">http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1000.3936&rep=rep1&type=pdf</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo10'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Towards a standard for clean solid-fuelled cookstoves<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274706950_Towards_a_standard_for_clean_solid-fuelled_cookstoves">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274706950_Towards_a_standard_for_clean_solid-fuelled_cookstoves</a><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>