[Stoves] Fuel specific Stoves

[frank]

Dear A.D. Karve,

I agree but that is very impractical for stove builders elsewhere to 
abtain the fuels for testing. That is why I think a fuel classification 
system would help. Making a stove that is designed to work on a fuel of 
known range of physical and chemical characteristics. So we are again in 
agreement - just need to work on a workable procedure for doing it.

Regards
Frank

adkarve wrote:

>Dear Stovers,
>we must have stoves designed for specific fuels used in a particular region.
>I site here two examples. In the Tibetan plateau and the Indian region of
>Ladakh, there are no trees. Yak dung is the only fuel available free of cost
>to the people in these regions. In my own state of Maharashtra, we have
>almost 2 million hectares under cotton. Cotton stalks serve almost
>exclusively as domestic fuel in this region. They are stacked in heaps
>larger than the people's houses, and used throughout the year. Even landless
>people use them, because they are allowed to carry away the stalks uprooted
>by them from a field. This custom provides the landless poor with free fuel
>and it clears the fields of the farmers for the next crop. Under such
>circumstances, it is imperative to develop stoves specifically for the fuel
>that people use and not to give them stoves developed by using a standard
>fuel. We should also test the stoves in the laboratory with the
>regio-specific fuel.
>Yours
>A.D.Karve
>
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