User-centric approach for the design and sizing of natural convection biomass cookstoves for lower emissions

Milind P. Kshirsagar and Vilas R. Kalamkar

Energy, 2016, vol. 115, issue P1, 1202-1215

Abstract: Biomass cookstove is a cuisine and user specific device. Every cuisine represents a unique cooking situation and the requirements such as; the range of cooking power required and the shape and size of utensils are almost rigid at the user-end. Hence, a single cookstove model cannot replace all the traditional stoves in the field, and user must be free to choose a stove size depending upon his/her own requirements. Moreover, the paradigm of cookstove design is shifting from energy-efficient stoves to the emissions efficient stoves. Hence, we have to ensure that, a stove design must fulfill user's requirements as well as new energy and environmental norms. The paper presents a user-centric design and sizing procedure, based upon findings from the parametric analysis of experimental data and simulations of validated heat and mass transfer model; subjected to different constraints.

Keywords: Biomass cookstoves; User centric approach; Design and sizing; Emissions; Parametric analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.09.048

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