[Stoves] Classification of stoves

[frank]

Hi Crispin, and stovers,
Because you said 'organized' friends I hesitate to write. : )


I think the main issue is 'use'. A person wants a stove to heat the 
house, cook the family dinner or cook for large group. So we should 
start with that.

Then they want to use the fuel thats available and most economical so we 
divide into fuel starting with 'main' groups like liquid, wood, gas, 
biomass, coal etc.

Then we go into a breakdown of the fuels - type of liquid fuels, or 
types of coal,  pellets etc.

Then we go into stoves.

*lumpers vs. splitters--*refers to* *people who classify or categorize 
information in different ways: Lumpers see similarities as more 
important than differences and take a more wholistic, global approach, 
whereas Splitters focus in on differences which they view as more 
important.  They are more likely to reductionistically "split hairs" in 
classifying or categorizing--even to the point of creating new 
categories to emphasize uniqueness.

I'm a splitter

Frank



Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:

>Dear Organized Friends
>
>In an attempt to classify stoves for a website, I am seeking your advice on
>how to do so.
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>There have been attempts and the Bioenergy lists sites is one way to find
>stoves.
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>We could for example go with applications, such as domestic and
>institutional, space heating, hot water only boilers (HOBS), things like
>that.
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>Or by fuel
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>Solid fuels (broken down into energy carriers like wood, densified biomass,
>charcoal, coal, rubber?, ??)
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>            Solid fuel burners
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>            Gasifiers (that gasify solid fuels)
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>Liquid fuels, energy carriers (paraffin, bio-fuels, ethanol, butanol)
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>Gaseous fuels, (biogas, natural gas, ??)
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>Do you like the Bioenergy lists layout? Should we use their system?
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>How would you characterise all stoves, cookers and industrial uses of
>biomass and other fuels.  Seems pretty broad in scope.
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>Thanks
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>Crispin
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