Environment friendly biomass gasifier cookstove for community cooking

Abstract

Traditional community cookstoves have a low level of efficiency due to their poor heat transfer efficiency and incomplete combustion. The low efficiency results in a high consumption of fuel wood, thereby creating a need of more fuel wood. This paper deals with the development of a biomass cookstove suitable for community cooking. The stove exhibits approximately 36.38% thermal efficiency and has a thermal power rating of 5 kW. The maximum flame temperature recorded was 712°C. The data indicate that the developed cookstove can save approximately 7155 kg of CO₂ per annum.

Keywords:

• biomass
• combustion
• cookstove
• community cooking
• water boiling test

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Funding

The author are grateful to Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Govt. of India for providing support for this research under All India Coordinated Research Project on Renewable Energy Sources and SPRERI, Vallabh Vidya Nagar for sparing their design of community cookstove.