[Stoves] Tom Miles' Highlights from ETHOS 2007

[Tom Miles]

Jean-Francois,

You have demonstrated that we need several approaches to stoves and to stove
testing and sometimes we have to compromise some technical values for more
usable features.

I would like to see the laboratory techniques for measuring performance and
emissions become closer to what is experienced in the field so that the
transition from lab to field is smoother. As Dean and others have emphasized
the lab tests are nothing more than development tools, but we need to make
them as close to the actual use as it is practical. Step by step maybe we
can reduce  the differences between them.

Tom     


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[mailto:stoves-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Jean-François Rozis
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 10:03 AM
To: stoves at listserv.repp.org
Subject: [Stoves] Tom Miles' Highlights from ETHOS 2007

Dear Tom,

thanks to give us some news on ETHOS happening concerning stove testing,
please make effort to definitively give up absolute testing approach, always
now comparing testing methodology in same time, same controlled conditions
(fuel, operator, climate, pots,..)

So, when you speak performance on combustion quality from Philips stove
please don't  say it's the best like that,  it's under specific conditions,
with specific fuel (industrial chips I presume), but not the same quality
than other stoves we can find in developed countries (simply because for
wood combustion we have to let developing the flame at hot temperature
before any thermal transfer, so if you put a cold pot, you cannot reach
those minimal conditions..), but you know all that of course..

always waiting for a common methodology for IAP stove controlling (PM,
CO,...)..

We are just playing with T-LUD stove in Cambodia (thanks Paul and Noelli),
it's funny for me to challenge Philips stove with a totally different
approach (design and way of commercialization), for us the deal is not the
stove itself, it's just a mean to largely commercialize renewable biomass,
the main problem is there, but promising...

to be continued and all the best for everyone..

--
Jean-François Rozis
Tel : 0467643816


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