<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="">Hi Michael, <div class=""><div class="">Please be aware that the AVAN stove does not burn charcoal briquettes. It is a char-maker, rather than a char-burner due to its air-flow features. It burns raw biomass of nearly any size as long as it is still somehow chunky (not like fine sawdust of rice husk, for which you would need a different type of stove configuration). The AVAN stove turns raw biomass into char, which you then could use to produce charcoal briquettes (or alternatively use as biochar soil amendment). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yet, I do agree with Andrew that you should consider the entire conversion chain from raw fuel input to the energy delivery under a cooking pot. </div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">If you are still interested in the AVAN stove: the AVAN stove was indeed designed by Sai Baskar Reddy from India, for construction plans I suggest you contact him directly. </div><div class="">You find more details on page 59 of the first edition of the manual on micro-gasification <a href="http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/files/micro_gasification_cooking_with_gas_from_biomass.pdf" class="">http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/files/micro_gasification_cooking_with_gas_from_biomass.pdf</a> </div><div class="">I did not include this stove type in the second edition of the manual as I did not get feedback or evidence about sufficient spread in the field. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But before you copy any stove design, please be sure about what you want to achieve. Stove design starts with the fuel you want to burn. If you want to know more about that, I suggest you visit <a href="http://www.ethoscon.com/portfolio-item/ethos-conference-2016/" class="">http://www.ethoscon.com/portfolio-item/ethos-conference-2016/</a> and get the Stoves101 presentation (or wait until the most recent one from 2018 gets uploaded, or contact me directly offlist, it is too big to post here but it will be uploaded soon).</div><div class="">Welcome to the mystery world of how best to transform biomass energy into useful cooking energy in your respective context. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Christa</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 04.02.2018 um 13:02 schrieb Andrew Heggie <<a href="mailto:aj.heggie@gmail.com" class="">aj.heggie@gmail.com</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 February 2018 at 10:12, Michael Carr <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:mikesrepost@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">mikesrepost@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="m_6668976770746160171gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">REQUEST FOR INSTRUCTIONS TO BUILD
THE AVAN<span class=""> </span>STOVE </span><span class=""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hi there – my name is Michael – I am a UK expat living in
Cambodia – I have been here for three years and plan to live here permanently –
I want to do something for the community by helping them to build rocket stoves
that are fuel efficient to burn charcoal briquettes made from waste materials
such as rice husk, coconut shell and palm oil waste.<span class=""> </span>I would really appreciate it if I could get
detailed instructions on how to build the Avan stove as shown on your page.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""></font></span></p></div><br class=""></blockquote><div class="">Hi and welcome Michael</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I had to look that stove up, it seems to be a hybrid rocket stove created by Dr <font size="1" class="">Sai Bhaskar Redd</font>y but I am unfamiliar with it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I wonder if it is worth considering whole biomass briquettes rather than first making charcoal then briquetting it?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Andrew<br class=""></div></div></div></div>
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