Lessons learned from a comparison study of charcoal stoves for Haiti
Abstract
Biomass is the predominant cooking fuel in Haiti, where it creates burdens on both the environment and the Haitian people. Following the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, the need for fuel-efficient cookstoves was acute. Although several organizations were quite interested in dissemination of fuel-efficient stoves in the relief effort, there was little knowledge about the performance and usability of the proposed stoves. To help fill the knowledge gap, stove researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory evaluated and compared the performance of several cookstoves intended for dissemination in Haiti. This paper discusses the decisions made throughout the course of that work, from project identification and approach through the dissemination of results. It identifies the challenges faced and how they were addressed, while briefly presenting the data from stove performance evaluated using Water Boiling and Controlled Cooking Tests. Furthermore, it also highlights the importance and benefits of evaluating technologies such as cookstoves prior to dissemination, even in urgent disaster relief situations.
- Authors:
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- University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship; US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1821147
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1496471
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; DGE 1106400; FA9550-05-C-0059
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 22; Journal ID: ISSN 2213-1388
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; charcoal cookstoves; Haiti; cookstove evaluation; disaster relief
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Lask, Kathleen, Booker, Kayje, and Gadgil, Ashok. Lessons learned from a comparison study of charcoal stoves for Haiti. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.seta.2017.02.008.
Lask, Kathleen, Booker, Kayje, & Gadgil, Ashok. Lessons learned from a comparison study of charcoal stoves for Haiti. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2017.02.008
Lask, Kathleen, Booker, Kayje, and Gadgil, Ashok. Tue .
"Lessons learned from a comparison study of charcoal stoves for Haiti". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2017.02.008. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1821147.
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abstractNote = {Biomass is the predominant cooking fuel in Haiti, where it creates burdens on both the environment and the Haitian people. Following the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, the need for fuel-efficient cookstoves was acute. Although several organizations were quite interested in dissemination of fuel-efficient stoves in the relief effort, there was little knowledge about the performance and usability of the proposed stoves. To help fill the knowledge gap, stove researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory evaluated and compared the performance of several cookstoves intended for dissemination in Haiti. This paper discusses the decisions made throughout the course of that work, from project identification and approach through the dissemination of results. It identifies the challenges faced and how they were addressed, while briefly presenting the data from stove performance evaluated using Water Boiling and Controlled Cooking Tests. Furthermore, it also highlights the importance and benefits of evaluating technologies such as cookstoves prior to dissemination, even in urgent disaster relief situations.},
doi = {10.1016/j.seta.2017.02.008},
journal = {Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Mar 07 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Tue Mar 07 00:00:00 EST 2017}
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