Multidisciplinary Design of an Innovative Natural Draft, Forced Diffusion Cookstove for Woody and Herbaceous Biomass Fuels in East Africa
- Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
The goal of the project was to develop a commercially viable, natural draft cookstove that exceeds ISO tier 4 criteria while meeting the needs of rural and urban cooks in East Africa. The cookstove should be market ready that meets the manufacturing cost and usability expectations of the final users, including durability, safety, comfort, aspirational value and compatibility with local fuels, foods, and customs. The cleaner burning cookstove product was designed to replace open fires and inefficient stoves so that it can enhance indoor air quality, personal health, livelihoods, and the environment. The stove was developed using integrated and multidisciplinary design approach that included field based user research and focus groups, empirically verified computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer modeling, lab and field based emission and efficiency measurements, design for manufacturability, as well as in-home user product evaluations.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Sustainable Transportation Office. Bioenergy Technologies Office
- Contributing Organization:
- University of Washington, Burn Design Labs, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group, Burn Manufacturing Company
- DOE Contract Number:
- EE0006284
- OSTI ID:
- 1472050
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-EERE-UWCC-1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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