Publications & Reports

Stove Design | Performance and Evaluation | Emissions Testing | Regional Reports

• Short video of an Aprovecho-designed Portable Emissions Measurement System (PEMS) in use at the new Aprovecho stove laboratory in China.
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  Training conducted by Nordica MacCarty, March, 2009

• Assessing Cook Stove Performance: Field and Lab Studies of Three Rocket Stoves Comparing the Open Fire and Traditional Stoves in Tamil Nadu, India on Measures of Time to Cook, Fuel Use, Total Emissions, and Indoor Air Pollution
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  Written by: Nordica MacCarty, January, 2008

• 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
  

• Relationship between High and Low Power Carbon Monoxide and Particulate Matter Emissions in Rocket Stoves (pdf) Dean Still and Nordica MacCarty, Aprovecho Research Center, July 13th, 2006
• CO/CO2 Ratio in the Charcoal Stoves Tested at Aprovecho (pdf)
  Dean Still, Aprovecho Research Center, June 23, 2006
• Comparing the Charcoal Burning Rocket and Jiko Stoves (pdf)
  Dean Still and Nordica MacCarty, Aprovecho Research Center, June 22nd, 2006
• CO Emissions From a Charcoal Rocket Stove Aprovecho Research Center, June 12, 2006
• Designing a Clean-Burning, High-Efficiency, Dung-Burning Stove: Lessons in cooking with cow patties. (pdf) Mark Witt, Kristina Weyer, David Manning, February 2006

• 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)
  
• 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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