Techno-Economic Assessment of LPG operated Porous Radiant Burner based Cook-stoves for Commercial Cooking Applications

Performance Tests on Medium-Scale Porous Radiant Burners for LPG Cooking Applications

The principle of operation of the porous radiant burner (PRB) is based on porous medium combustion (PMC) in which the combustion of fuel and air mixture takes place inside a matrix of open cavities in the presence of an inert solid surface. Since the porous matrix has high thermal conductivity and high emissivity, the contributions of conduction and radiation in the PMC are significant. In the ...

Techno-economic assessment of regional biomass use

An approach for techno-economic optimisation and for the analysis of industrial biomass use is proposed in this paper. The ARGUS model (German acronym for: allocation module for a computer-aided generation of environmental strategies for emissions), based on linear programming, has been implemented as one of the few models that investigates VOC emissions from approximately 40 industrial sectors...

Environmental payoffs of LPG cooking in India

Over two-thirds of Indians use solid fuels to meet daily cooking energy needs, with associated negative environmental, social, and health impacts. Major national initiatives implemented by the Indian government over the last few decades have included subsidies for cleaner burning fuels like liquid petroleum gas (LPG) and kerosene to encourage a transition to these. However, the extent to which ...

Alternative approaches to the design of four-burner stoves.

The spatial arrangement of stove hotplates and associated controls and linkages has been of concern to ergonomists. In this study, two different approaches were used to determine preferred arrangements. In the first, one group of participants were given locations of controls and asked to place hotplates; a second group was given hotplate locations and asked to place controls. In each case, link...

Better Burning, Better Breathing: Improving Health with Cleaner Cook Stoves