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Maligaya Rice Hull Stove 74<br />

Philippines, Commercial<br />

Crop<br />

Residue<br />

Process<br />

Equipment<br />

Main Product<br />

Rice<br />

Hull<br />

Combustion<br />

Maligaya Rice Hull Stove<br />

Heat for cooking<br />

Technical Description of Technology<br />

Developed by the Philippine Rice Research Institute. The current design is an<br />

improvement of Vietnamese and Indonesian rice hull stoves. After testing their<br />

performance with other rice hull stove designs (local and foreign), both stoves<br />

were found to possess outstanding features that were incorporated in this new<br />

design. It is environment-friendly, practically smokeless, ignites after 36<br />

seconds after dropping a burning paper, consumes 1 kg of rice hull per hour,<br />

can reach a temperature of around 600-700C for 15 minutes and one load<br />

can continuously burn for 28 min, enough to cook rice and vegetable viand for<br />

a household of five members.<br />

Example of Real Life Application<br />

Commercial<br />

Philippines<br />

Supplier<br />

PhilRice, Science city of Munoz, Nueva Ecija<br />

Philippines<br />

74 http://www.philrice.gov.ph/machinery/stove.htm<br />

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