About 2 billion people cook with solid fuels, like wood, crop waste, or animal waste. This activity has effects on all sorts of scales, starting with personal exposure and people’s health, all the way to local/regional air quality and regional/global climate.
Our group works with people who are interested in realistic, appropriate ways of improving low-technology combustion, mostly assisting with measurement expertise. We're also interested in leveraging those connections to obtain emission data needed for regional and global models.
Lots of photos available through links.
ETHOS - link to 2008 conference site
Stoves website, currently
maintained by Tom Miles (pick up links from here; I won’t repeat them)
Chat with the Stovers on REPP-CREST
discussion list (or read the archives)
HEDON (Household
Energy Network)
PCIA (Partnership for Clean Indoor Air)
Testing protocols: Chinese
(54 kb, from RWEDP field document No. 40) and Indian (57 kb, from RWEDP field document No. 41)
Some of my presentations at ETHOS group meetings (ETHOS=Engineers in
Technical and Humanitarian Opportunities of Service).
Testing of Rocket stoves
(1.3MB pdf)
Emission testing
recommendations 2002 (0.5MB pdf)
Emission testing
recommendations 2003 (0.6MB pdf)
ETHOS presentation 2004
(140kB pdf)
ETHOS presentation 2005: Progress in stove testing
(400kB pdf)
ETHOS presentation 2006: Adventures of ARACHNE (field stove testing)
(600kB pdf)
“Emission testing for real people” (120kB pdf)
Last update January 2008