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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"wood fuel"”.
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Modular Plancha Cookstove Design for Capacity Building in Santa Catarina, Guatemala
… air pollution 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 …
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Ashes to Ashes: Identifying archaeological fuels
Understanding fuel use is important in researching ancient communities. This project developed methods to identify archaeological fuel from midden, hearth, and ash samples using comparison to modern analogues. Modern analogue fuels were ashed at 2000C, 4000C, and 9000C then analysed with a suite of …
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Familiarizing the Alien: Designing working nodes that reveal the opportunity of invasive alien plants as a resource in the Theewaterskloof catchment area
… could be used in the production of timber, wood fuel, resin, honey and carbon products, reveals significant potential for using these invasive plants as an economic resource. One of the key discoveries of the research, is that access to invaded mountain areas, which include steep, rugged and …
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Wood as an energy source in the Kraft pulp-paper industry of the southeastern United States
… a study in the economics of deriving energy from wood. Its objective is to provide guides to industry managers that will enable them to better assess wood's fuel potential. It is written with this business audience in mind. An introductory section describes the "energy crisis" as nothing more than …
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Forged in Fire: An anthracological investigation of woodland management and fuel selection for Iron Age metalworking at Culduthel, Invernesshire, UK
… and manufacture. Yet, the question of which woodland resources and fuel procurement strategies sustained such a vast operation has remained unanswered.<br/>This thesis presents the results of the anthracological investigation conducted on primary and secondary fuel waste remains from …
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Participatory Methods in Technical Design: Household Biomass Stoves
… where households need accessible and affordable wood fuel for cooking and heating during extreme winters. Prior to fieldwork, I facilitated ideation sessions to generate solutions to these challenges, and we pursued prototyping and testing of a chimney retrofit to a traditional stove. This …
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Emissions from combustion technologies with a focus on brick making and in-home cooking
… from household stoves were compared across fuel types, stove characteristics, and study region. Stoves measured in Nepal emitted more black carbon when sugarcane was used in the fuel mixture. Chimney stoves had better combustion efficiency and lower emissions than non-chimney stoves and wood …
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Trees Outside of the Forest: A Political Ecology of Tree Planting in Kenya
… wide range of issues, such as climate change and wood fuel production. Next, I show the power of the 10 per cent tree cover target, which currently informs tree planting in Kenya. I show how the target is fundamentally arbitrary and partly based on a history of comparing Kenya’s forest cover to …
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Evaluating Energywood Harvesting Operations in The Lower Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States
… energy feedstocks have led to increased energywood production in the Southeastern United States. Energywood requires additional processing and is often the lowest value product generated, making profitability difficult. Additionally, numerous environmental concerns surround energywood …
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Soliton-like waves of nuclear burning in the neutron multiplicating media : (theory and computational approach)
… considered for the Feoktistov uranium-plutonium fuel cycle. For simplicity the neutron spectrum was assumed the same as the fission spectrum. A case with little or no moderator was considered - the neutron spectrum is the same as the initial neutron spectrum. The auto-wave solution for the …