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 />
2.1 Factory-finished <strong>gas</strong>ifier stoves commercially available<br />
This section lists micro-<strong>gas</strong>ifier cook-stoves that are factory-finished <strong>from</strong> a known address,<br />
have reached dissemination beyond the prototyping stage and that are currently in production.<br />
It provides information on their current dissemination, user feedback etc. as far as information<br />
could be obtained. Most of the currently known commercial production of micro<strong>gas</strong>ifiers<br />
is in South-East Asia, more specifically in India and China, <strong>with</strong> Indonesia and<br />
Vietnam starting up.<br />
Please note that the following listing is by no means exhaustive and comprises only those<br />
micro-<strong>gas</strong>ifiers known to the authors at the time of compilation of this manual. If there are<br />
any other devices that should be included, please forward the information to the authors for<br />
future inclusion. This is ‗work-in-progress‘ and the list of commercially available devices will<br />
hopefully grow fast in the near future.<br />
Factory-finished <strong>gas</strong>ifier stoves currently commercially available<br />
(in brackets country of current production, sorted by alphabetical order of country of production)<br />
2.1.1 Suitable for daily domestic cooking 2.1.2 Campstoves<br />
With considerable<br />
known dissemination (><br />
5,000 units) in communities<br />
Over 450,000 units:<br />
Oorja (India)<br />
Over 25,000 units:<br />
Daxu (China)<br />
Belonio (Philippines)<br />
Mayon (Philippines)<br />
Without considerable known<br />
community use or<br />
dissemination just starting<br />
a) For chunky <strong>biomass</strong><br />
b) Mainly for rice husks<br />
JXQ-10 (China)<br />
Champion (India)<br />
Navagni (India)<br />
Philips (India)<br />
Sampada (India)<br />
Lucia (Italy)<br />
VeSTO (Swaziland)<br />
Minang Jordanindo (Indonesia)<br />
Paul Olivier (Vietnam)<br />
2.1.1 Gasifier stoves suitable for daily domestic cooking<br />
This section comprises <strong>gas</strong>ifier stoves suitable for the day-to-day use as cooking<br />
device. It is subdivided by the type of <strong>biomass</strong> fuel that can be used, as it different<br />
fuel properties required different design features: ‗chunky dry <strong>biomass</strong>‘ (whereby<br />
‗chunky‘ is broadly defined by ‗an average particle size bigger than 5 mm‘) does perform<br />
well <strong>with</strong> natural draft, while ‗rice husks‘ (the worldwide most widely available<br />
‗fine particle fuel‘) can best be <strong>gas</strong>ified <strong>with</strong> forced convection.<br />
a) Devices for chunky dry <strong>biomass</strong> fuels<br />
The only <strong>gas</strong>ifier stove that has been sold in really big numbers exceeding 450,000 units is<br />
the Oorja stove in India. It was developed by First Energy and the Indian Institute of Science<br />
in Bangalore <strong>with</strong> long-term experience on <strong>biomass</strong> <strong><strong>gas</strong>ification</strong> (http://www.iisc.ernet.in/).<br />
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Targeted at affluent niche market<br />
for occasional use, not designed for<br />
daily use<br />
Tom Reed Wood<strong>gas</strong> Campstove<br />
(USA)<br />
Beaner Backpacker Stove (Italy)
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