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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Stoves"”.
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Participatory Methods in Technical Design: Household Biomass Stoves
… I analyze a case study of improving biomass stoves in the Himalaya through the lens of participatory design to inform design practice and research. Biomass cooking and heating cause high levels of indoor air pollution especially in the Himalaya where households need accessible and affordable …
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Field emission measurements of solid fuel stoves in Yunnan, China
… 37 uncontrolled cooking tests of residential stoves in Yunnan Province, China. Fuel mixtures included coal, woody biomass, and agricultural waste. Compared to previously published emission measurements of similar stoves, these measurements have higher CO and PM2.5 emission factors. Real-time …
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Measurements that fill gaps in emission inventories: gas flares, household biomass stoves, and brick kilns
… associated gas flares, household biomass stoves, and brick kilns. For each of these sources, there were few previous measurements of black carbon (BC) aerosol and poor understanding of the variability in emissions expected. Aircraft facilitated measurements of flares in the Bakken region …
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The development of low cost fuel-efficient woodburning stoves appropriate to underdeveloped areas of South Africa
… Africa, and to assess the potential for woodstoves in the mitigation of the fuelwood crisis and deforestation in these areas. This involved a review of international experience in stove development and dissemination from which the relative successes of differing designs and dissemination …
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Emissions from combustion technologies with a focus on brick making and in-home cooking
Emissions from seventy household stoves in Tibet and Nepal and thirteen brick kilns in South Asia were measured to quantify aerosol and gaseous pollutant emissions, including particulate matter (PM 2.5), carbon monoxide (CO), carbonaceous particles, and optical scattering and absorption. In …
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An Evaluation of Household Energy Systems in the Himalayan Region
Biomass cookstoves are prevalent in rural areas in developing countries around the world. The smoke from biomass burning results in high levels of household air pollution, which cause respiratory and pulmonary diseases. While many improved stoves have been developed to increase cooking efficiency …
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Mass flow and temperature measurements in the flue of a woodburning appliance
The use of wood stoves for residential heating has been increasing over the past several years. This increased use of wood stoves has caused significant concern about increased air pollution. Development of improved emissions and efficiency measurement methods will allow the development of improved …
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Simplified real-time PAH measurement techniques
The increased use of residential wood and coal stoves in recent years h.as caused a growing concern for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emissions from these stoves. Design of stoves that reduce PAH emissions has been hampered because existing PAH measurement techniques are slow, complex, and …
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Design of housing for stove use monitors (SUMs) to measure adoption/
… health as well as the environment. Improved cook stoves negate these problems but are often not used over time. Stove use monitors (SUMs) are attached to improved cook stoves to track adoption rates. Three basic designs were generated of a housing for the SUM. They were analyzed by considering …
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Design of a battery-powered induction stove
… areas of the world struggle to cook with stoves that emit hazardous fumes and contribute to green house gas emissions. Electric stoves would alleviate many of these issues, but significant barriers to adoption, most notably lack of reliable electric power, make current commercial options …
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Familial variation in personal PM2.5 exposure within a rural Rwandan community pre and post clean energy intervention
… populations. Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) stoves have been proven to emit far less PM2.5 than traditional biomass burning stoves and significantly reduce personal exposures in randomized control trials. However, there is uncertainty surrounding the difference in exposure reductions produced …
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Investigation of the applicability of a cleaner production approach to road side catering in urban Africa
… technologies were considered: efficient wood stoves, which are known to have sizeable benefits in terms of reduced fuel wood usage and smoke emissions (though investigated to date mainly in the context of household energy usage), and anaerobic digestion, which can potentially serve …
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Aetiology and outcome of patients burned from 2003 to 2008 at the Tygerberg Hospital burns unit, Western Cape, SA
… age group. Injuries due to shack fires and fuel stoves comprised 21% (399) of all admissions. Mortality due to these injuries comprised 28% (137) of total mortality. Gas stoves accounted for 24% with kerosene stoves accounting for 71% of injuries. The burn death rate in this study (25%) was found …
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Evaluation of aged woodstove catalysts
… and catalytic combustors have been used in woodstoves to reduce emissions. Field tests of EPA-certified catalytic stoves have demonstrated that emission factors increase substantially after a few seasons of use, and catalyst degradation is a suspected cause. Previously, an in-field test …
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Small-Scale Batch-Fed Biomass Gasification and Combustion
Small-scale solid biomass-fuelled cookstoves are highly important to satisfy the energy demand of nearly half the world’s population. With this as a main application, biomass provides the majority of renewable energy worldwide. However, traditional cookstoves, which emit vast amounts of emissions …
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Modular Plancha Cookstove Design for Capacity Building in Santa Catarina, Guatemala
… from cooking on inefficient firewood cookstoves and open fires leads to 3.2 million premature deaths every year (World Health Organization, 2022). In Santa Catarina Palopó, Guatemala, women spend much of their time cooking and primarily use wood fuel, which disproportionately exposes them …
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