Resources Tagged: Vita

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  1. Cookers And Stoves: FIRELESS COOKER

    1985-01-01 Where fuel is scarce, this easy-to-build fireless cooker can be a contribution to better cooking. It keeps food cooking with a small amount of heat stored in hot stones; loss of heat is prevented by a thick layer of insulating material around the pot. Fireless cookers have been successfully used...
    VITA Cookstoves Stoves Cookers Fireless Cooker

  2. Portable Metallic Cookstove

    1988-01-01 This Industry Profile is one of a series briefly describing small or medium-sized industries. The Profiles provide basic information for starting manufacturing plants in developing nations. Specifically, they provide general plant descriptions, financial, and technical factors for their...
    Downloads VITA Cookstoves Metallic Cookstoves

  3. Double-Drum Sawdust Stove

    1988-01-01 In the United States, sawdust traditionally has been burned in large furnaces for industrial heating, in smaller furnaces for home heating, and in fireplaces in the form of compressed logs. In other parts of the world, loose sawdust has been burned for years in inexpensive double-drum stoves....
    Downloads VITA Double-Drum Stove Cookstoves Sawdust Stoves

  4. Crafts And Village Industry: Pottery - Waste Oil Fired Kiln

    1988-01-01 Ceramic kilns that burn waste oil from automobiles and other industries have been operating in Tanzania, Haiti, and several other developing countries for several years. These kilns offer the advantages of good operational control that is easily achieved with fuel oil, but lower fuel cost because...
    Fuel Oil Ceramic Downloads VITA Kilns Waste Oil

  5. Making Charcoal: The Retort Method

    1980-01-01 The retort is one of the most efficient means of producing good quality charcoal. Wood is placed in a large steel cylinder (or "retort"). This has a tightly closed door, and some means to let tar and gases escape. The cylinder is heated from the outside. No air enters the barrel. When the wood in...
    Downloads VITA Retort Charcoal Utilization Charcoal production

  6. Comparing Charcoal And Wood-Burning Cookstoves In The Caribbean

    1980-01-01 The objectives of the Montserrat Fuelwood/Charcoal/Cookstove Project were to: Substitute local renewable cooking fuel from the forest for imported liquid fuels, Use the forest resource wisely, and Create local industry and employment. Specifically for the cookstove portion of the project, all...
    VITA Caribbean Cookstoves Wood stoves Charcoal

  7. Comparing Simple Charcoal Production Technologies For The Caribbean

    1984-01-01 The objectives of the project were to: 1. substitute local renewable fuel for imported fuel, 2. use the forest resource wisely, and 3. create local industry and employment. More specifically for the charcoal portion of the project, we wanted to find the best charcoal production techniques in...
    VITA Caribbean Charcoal production

  8. Understanding Biogas Generation

    1984-01-01 Biogas generation is a process that takes place in an oxygen-free environment. It uses anaerobic bacteria--bacteria that live only in the absence of oxygen--to break down complex organic compounds in fairly well-defined stages. The process is called anaerobic digestion. It produces biogas, a gas...
    Anaerobic bacteria Downloads VITA Biogas

  9. 3-Cubic Meter Biogas Plant

    1980-01-01 A biogas digester is the apparatus used to control anaerobic decomposition. In general, it consists of a sealed tank or pit that holds the organic material, and some means to collect the gases that are produced. Many different shapes and styles of biogas plants have been experimented with:...
    Downloads VITA Building-biogas plant

  10. Biogas Systems In India

    1983-01-01 This study is an assessment of the "appropriateness" of biogas technology in meeting some of the needs of India's rural population. Such an assessment is quite complicated, despite claims that a biogas system is a simple village-level technology. While there is evidence that biogas systems have...
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