Established in 1976, Aprovecho Research Center (ARC), a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization, assists developing world organizations to establish high quality labs so they can test and improve their wood burning cooking stoves. It specializes in iterative experimental design of wood burning cookstoves through rapid prototyping and emissions and thermal measurements.
Smoke from wood burning cook stoves kills 4 million women and their children every year (WHO, 2014).
The black carbon in smoke from wood burning cook stoves causes an estimated 18% to 25% of climate change (New York Times, 2008).
We had to invent the emissions equipment needed to develop clean burning and efficient cookstoves and have been improving it for more than 20 years. ARC has a holistic view of biomass cookstove development and has engineers available to serve in the areas of:
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Clean Burning Biomass Cookstoves - 20-01-2021
Appendixes featuring CAD drawings of the
• Natural Draft Sunken Pot Rocket Stove
• Kirk Harris Natural Draft Top Lit Up Draft (TLUD) Stove
• Side Feed Bottom Air Forced Draft Rocket Stove
• Top Lit Forced Draft Stove
• Charcoal Stove
Clean Burning Biomass Cookstoves - 20-01-2021
Since its inception, the stove movement has consistently maintained that the users and local stakeholders must be the drivers of innovation. The German development agency, GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), and many other organizations, have made it clear that successful stove solutions come from the users.
In 1987, Dr. Samuel Baldwin outlined how stoves should be evolved by design committees comprised of cooks, retailers, distributors, manufacturers, engineers, and funders who interact together to create an appropriate technology. Along with technologies that are capable of reducing harmful emissions and increasing efficient heat transfer to reduce fuel use, the local evolution of practical, market viable stoves that are also great at cooking continues to be a necessity.
