Publications & Reports

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Training Slides

• Stove Testing - Overview of Standard Stove Testing
  PowerPoint Slides
  By Nordica MacCarty, July, 2009

• Stove Testing - The Water Boiling Test
  PowerPoint Slides
  By Nordica MacCarty, July, 2009

• Stove Testing - The Controlled Cooking Test
  PowerPoint Slides
  By Nordica MacCarty, July, 2009

• Stove Testing - The Kitchen Performance Test
  PowerPoint Slides
  By Nordica MacCarty, July, 2009

Summarized Protocol

• Simplified version of the Controlled Cooking Test (.pdf) March 2009

 

• Simplified version of the Water Boiling Test (.pdf) June 2009

 

• Simplified version of the Kitchen Performance Test (.doc) June 2009

 

• Proposed Benchmarks (.pdf) April 2008

 Full Protocols and Data Calculation Sheets

• Updated Protocols for Stove Performance Evaluation, July 2009
  - Water Boiling Test (WBT) v.3.0 with appendices--English | .doc
  - Water Boiling Test (WBT) data calculation sheet v.3.2.2 | excel
  - Prueba De Hervor De Agua (WBT) hoja de calculo v.3.2.2 | excel
  - Controlled Cooking Test (CCT) v.2.0 with appendices | .doc
  - Controlled Cooking Test (CCT) data calculation sheet v.2.0 | excel
  - Kitchen Performance Test (KPT) v.3.0 with appendices | .doc
  - Kitchen Performance Test (KPT) data calculation sheet v.3.0 | excel
  NOTE: For Excel calculation sheets to work properly, macros must be enabled.

 

• Laboratory Testing of Rocket Stoves of Various Capacities As Compared to the Three Stone Fire (.pdf) Dean Still, Nordica MacCarty, Aprovecho Research Center
  April 3rd, 2007
  
  
• Saving Energy in a Biomass Cookstove using an Well Designed Pot (.pdf) Dr, Alan Berick, Aprovecho Research Center, February 2007
  
  
  
• A study in conserving energy using an experimental cook pot (.doc) Dr, Alan Berick, Aprovecho Research Center, September 2006
  
  
  
• Comparing the Charcoal Burning Rocket and Jiko Stoves (pdf)
  Dean Still and Nordica MacCarty, Aprovecho Research Center, June 22nd, 2006
• Heat Losses in a Cook Pot at Constant Temperature Alan Berick, Aprovecho June 10, 2006
• Darfur Humanitarian Stove Project Assessment Report
  Daniel Wolf and Mathew Langol Aprovecho Research Centre and International Lifeline Fund, January 2006
• El Diseño de Estufas Mejoradas para Calefacción por Dean Still, Centro de Investigación Aprovecho y la Fundación Shell, (Ponencia al ETHOS 2005)
• Improved Stoves Project, Rosso, Mauritania Aprovecho/Sunsmiles Training for EPA/Peace Corps. Slide Show By Dr. Mouhsine Serrar, Sunsmiles, Sept 24- Oct 6, 2005
• ETHOS Stove Design and Testing Seminar June 2-6, 2003, Aprovecho Research Center, Oregon
  
• Summary and Results (pdf) from the Seminar, Dean Still (June 18, 2003)
  
• Grates Improve Efficiency, Dean Still, April 24, 2003
  
• The Effect of Material Choice on the Combustion Chamber of a Rocket Cooking Stove: Adobe, Common Brick, Vernacular Insulative Ceramic, and Guatemalan Floor Tile (Baldosa) Dean Still and Brad van Appel January 1, 2002
  
• Increasing fuel efficiency and reducing harmful emissions in traditional cooking stoves Boiling Point 47 Autumn 2001 (pdf 153k)
  

How to Build an Insitutional Barrel Stove

A multi-part video with step by step instructions for building an institutionally sized rocket stove made from metal barrels. 

How to Build a VITA Stove

A short video available for viewing or downloading describing the steps for building a small single pot VITA stove. The VITA stove is inexpensive to construct and seems suitable for outdoor cooking in refugee situations.

 

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