Development and performance evaluation of an improved biomass cookstove for isolated communities from developing countries

In Colombia, about 1.6 million of families cook their meals with biomass using 3-Stone fire stoves whose efficiency is between 8 and 12%. In this work, an improved biomass cookstove (IBCS) that works under combustion regimes, reaching a target efficiency of 20%, is designed and developed. The IBCS h...

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Main Authors: Edwin Chica, Juan F. Pérez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-09-01
Series:Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214157X19300863