Micro-gasification: Cooking with gas from biomass - Amper
Micro-gasification: Cooking with gas from biomass - Amper
Micro-gasification: Cooking with gas from biomass - Amper
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<strong>Micro</strong>-<strong><strong>gas</strong>ification</strong>: <strong>Cooking</strong> <strong>with</strong> <strong>gas</strong> <strong>from</strong> dry <strong>biomass</strong><br />
Entirely locally manufactured out of Pre-manufactured<br />
parts, local assem-<br />
scrap or tincans new materials<br />
bly<br />
Lucia stove made in<br />
Haiti February 2010<br />
(Design: Nathaniel<br />
Mulcahy, WorldStove)<br />
http://tweetphoto.com/<br />
13062972<br />
Champion Stove<br />
manufactured by Servals<br />
Group in Chennai,<br />
India<br />
(Design: Paul Anderson,<br />
photo during<br />
testing at Aprovecho<br />
Institute)<br />
HERA – GIZ Manual <strong>Micro</strong>-<strong><strong>gas</strong>ification</strong> Version 1.01 January 2011<br />
Lucia stove <strong>from</strong> Italy,<br />
assembled <strong>from</strong> flatpacks<br />
in Haiti (Design:<br />
Worldstove)<br />
http://tweetphoto.com/<br />
13064374<br />
Entirely ‗foreign‘<br />
manufactured<br />
Wood<strong>gas</strong> Camp-stove<br />
(Design: Tom Reed)<br />
as a publicly available<br />
example <strong>from</strong><br />
http://www.wood<strong>gas</strong>.c<br />
om/bookSTOVE.htm<br />
While there are many designs for micro-<strong>gas</strong>ifiers, the basic TLUD technology is ―open<br />
source‖ (not protected by patents or copyrights) and there are literally hundreds of variations<br />
and improvements yet to be discovered. All people are welcome (and are encouraged) to<br />
participate. There is quite a variety of cook-stoves around the world that are based on this<br />
open-source, public domain Top-Lit UpDraft micro-<strong>gas</strong>ifier principles, others will be presented<br />
in the manual. Paul Anderson has compiled a list of TLUDs as per March 2009 for<br />
the PCIA meeting in Kampala:<br />
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