Resources Tagged: Fuel

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  1. World Food Programme - Stoves and Safe Energy for Cooking

    WFP is committed to helping people safely cook the food it delivers by addressing the various risks associated with cooking and access to energy. Cooking on open fires is one of the most serious public health and environmental problems in the world, withindoor air pollution being ranked by the...
    Fuel Cookstove

  2. The Case of Arivi Paraffin Cookstoves

    Because shacks in low-income communities are often very close to each other, when a fire breaks out in one home due to a spill from a cheap paraffin stove, the fire can spread quickly to numerous neighboring shacks. Tasos Callantzis, Ferderick Kruger, and Rudi Snyman formed Arivi to develop a...
    Fuel Cookstove

  3. Why Have Improved Cook-stove Initiatives in India Failed?

    Abstract, 2017, World Development In India, efforts to design and diffuse improved cook-stoves began with nationalist organizations in the 1930s; after independence, these efforts were folded into sporadic state-level efforts and then became part of the NGO patchwork of development projects. Very...
    India Fuel Cookstove

  4. These cheap, clean stoves were supposed to save millions of lives. What happened?

    But “clean” is a nebulous term. Of those 28 million cookstoves, only 8.2 million — the ones that run on electricity or burn liquid fuels including liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), ethanol and biogas — meet the health guidelines for indoor emissions set by the WHO. The vast majority of the stoves...
    Cookstove Fuel

  5. Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves

    Abstract, 2012,The Harvard Environmental Economics Program It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking...
    Fuel Cookstove

  6. Utilization of Sawdust and Coconut Shell as Raw Materials in Briquettes Production

    Energy consumption is continuously increasing along with the increase in population and economy level of society. The condition is aggravated with the imbalances of energy supply. An alternative energy source that cheap and renewable can be one of energy diversification solution to overcome the...
    Fuel Briquette

  7. Fever Tree

    2019-04-26 Fever tree (Acacia xanthophloea) is a fast-growing, medium-size tree (reaching 15 to 25 m in height) with smooth, yellow-green bark. Thorns up to 7 cm long grow on the trunk and become more dense in the spreading branches. Fever tree can be found throughout Africa, most commonly in swampy,...
    Trees Firewood Fuel Charcoal Acacia

  8. Small Scale Manufacture of Burned Building Brick

    1990-01-01 The purpose of this manual is to outline, in as simple a manner as possible, the details of making and burning clay brick suitable for domestic building. The scope of the manual is confined to "cottage industries"; it does not cover large commercial production such as is known in the United...
    Fuel Clay Downloads Building Brick Bricks VITA Small Scale Brickmaking

  9. Understanding Ethanol Fuel Production And Use

    1984-01-01 This paper describes the production and use of ethanol (ethyl alcohol) as a liquid fuel. The production of ethanol is a well-established technology; however, the use of ethanol as a liquid fuel is a complex subject.
    VITA Fuel Production Ethanol as Fuel Fuel

  10. Aprovecho Research Center

    Established in 1976, Aprovecho Research Center (ARC), a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization, assists developing world organizations toestablish high quality labsso they can test and improve their wood burning cooking stoves. It specializes in iterative experimental design of wood burning cookstoves...
    Fuel Cookstoves