[Stoves] Stoves Digest, Vol 8, Issue 4

[nari phaltan]

Dear Chris,

We made the Noorie kerosene lamp in 1990 when Britelyt was not even in the
picture. We also believe we were the first one to promote the use of lantern
as a cooking device. In science and technology and commerce progress takes
place incrementally when improvements are made based upon the existing
models. However proper credit needs to be given to the originator of the
concept.

Unfortunately our Noorie ethanol lantern work remained behind because of the
materials problems. Besides we got sidetracked in developing the low ethanol
concentration stove which is now ready for commercial exploitation.
http://nariphaltan.virtualave.net/ethstove.pdf.

Recently we have taken up the work of running a newly designed lantern to
run on 50%(w/w) ethanol-water mixture and we are happy to inform you that it
is doing very well in the trial runs. This way we have been able to produce
both cooking and lighting device to run on the same fuel. Besides this fuel
can easily be distilled locally with very little energy and without too much
sophisticated machinery. In fact we had developed a very simple solar still
in 1984 to distill this ethanol from 7%(w/w) fermented mash. The still
produced 40-60%(w/w) ethanol depending upon the solar energy.

Best wishes. Anil K Rajvanshi

On 2/3/07, Chris Smith <hotspringfreak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Speaking of the excellent Britelyt lantern (not to mention their stove
> which
> can burn alcohol - as well as biodiesel and other liquid fuels - a true
> multi-fuel stove) ...
>
> ...is there current status info on the availability of the alcohol Noorie
> lantern (which has a stove adapter, like the Britelyt)? Or on it's mantle
> composition (to keep with thread).  I believe Anil K. Ravjanshi had
> written
> that 2007 would be a target date for release, hopefully for export as
> well.
> Stats are similar to the Britelyt, though unless I'm mistaken a setup for
> operation with alcohol would be required for the Britelyte while it's just
>
> turn-key for the alcohol Noorie.  Light output and fuel consumption stats
> are similar.  The Noorie being made in India, may be substantially cheaper
> and I believe it functions with lower concentration alcohols, being
> designed
> to operate with the user's self-produced ~60% alcohols produced from
> biomass
> waste from their own home garden food production efforts.  An integrated
> sustainable loop.  Comments and/or project update are much appreciated.
>
> http://nariphaltan.virtualave.net/lantern.htm
>
> Thank you,
>
> Chris Smith
>
> ------------------------------
>
> >
> > Message: 6
> > Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:51:55 -0600
> > From: "Paul S. Anderson" <psanders at ilstu.edu>
> > Subject: Re: [Stoves] FW: MANTLE LAMP TESTS
> > To: Frans Peeters < peetersfrans at telenet.be>, eddie at britelyt.com
> > Cc: Harry Stokes - alcohol <hstokes at blazenet.net >,      Stoves
> >         <stoves at listserv.repp.org>
> > Message-ID: <20070202215155.8t2ba9aq8880gs84 at webmail2.ilstu.edu >
> > Content-Type: text/plain;       charset=ISO-8859-1;     format="flowed"
> >
> > Frans,
> >
> > Thanks for the message and for the efforts.
> >
> > Last month I met Mr. Eddie Draper who makes the Britelyt mantle
> > lanterns, and he
> > has a model that runs on any of the alcohols.  A VERY nice product and
> > I showed
> > one at ETHOS.  Sells for about $200 including a cookstove substitute
> > top.  Visit     www.britelyt.com   for info.
> >
> > Britelyt has a stronger mantle than what is common for campstoves.  Any
> > details
> > would need to come from Eddie, who is receiving a copy of this message.
> >
> > Eddie:  Thanks.  The alcohol lantern was performed well at ETHOS.  See
> > photo of
> > it in the photo section of Tom Miles report at     bioenergylists.org    .
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > --
> > Paul S. Anderson, Ph.D., Geography professor - Emeritus
> > Telephone:  USA-309-452-7072 (residence and office)
> > Internet site:   www.ilstu.edu/~psanders<http://www.ilstu.edu/%7Epsanders>
> > For my gasifier stoves info, go to:
> > http://bioenergylists.org/contributors#Paul_Anderson
> >
> >
> >
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