[Stoves] Designs

[Tom Miles]

Andrew,

The most reliable producer of stove designs has been Peter Scott at
Aprovecho for the rocket stoves. See their publications at:
http://www.aprovecho.net/stoves/web-content/publications/publications.html
or their stove design library http://www.aprovecho.net/at/atindex.htm

Also search for "stove design" on the bioenergylists.org site. 

Not many others have taken the time to draw up the stoves and provide
material lists etc. 

Tom
   

-----Original Message-----
From: stoves-bounces at listserv.repp.org
[mailto:stoves-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of AJH
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 4:44 PM
To: Tom Miles
Cc: 'Steve Taylor'; stoves at listserv.repp.org
Subject: Re: [Stoves] Designs

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:32:23 -0700, Tom Miles wrote:

>I don't know a shopping mall for heating stoves. 

Tom, Steve is looking for some plans for a DIY stove, something along the
lines of dimensioned drawings published under a general public license for
own use.
>
>This discussion list is devoted to cooking stoves for developing countries.

>See http://bioenergylists.org/en/stoves

And as we have seen before there is scope for a lot of cross fertilisation
of ideas from first world industrial and camping burners to be applied for
the benefit of cooking in developing countries.

I know of Steve from another forum where we have a joint interest, though we
haven't met, I know he is a talented engineer with good electronic
knowledge.

Steve, in principle there's not a lot more to a radiant heater than a cook
pot stove, just replace the cookpot with a radiant flue pipe that will
discharge the flue products out of harm's way. It has often been pointed out
in the past that the flue gas from a wood burner is so acrid inhaling it is
unlikely to go unnoticed. Make that woodburner visually clean burning and
smell free and there can be a hidden danger of CO poisoning.

>From my experience of wood burning in UK I'd say that you need more
sophisticated design to allow for the fact that the available wood is often
going to be far from dry. This will dictate how the fire can be lit and
cleanly sustained. It makes a Top lit Updraught stove impractical without
fan assistance. Top lighting seems to be the quickest method to achieve
clean burning from start up but this leads to problems with re stoking, so
duration of burn needs thinking about.

AJH


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