Facinated with Super Kalan

Motivation to Work

Nov. 11, 2012

       There was a successive price increase of LPG on the year 2010.  So I was encouraged to set up a forced-air charcoal stove in our kitchen.  I enjoyed it so much, thinking of the considerably bigger amount that I was able to cut from our budget. Seeing that there are variety of models of charcoal stove, being sold in the market, I begun to venture on improving my own design.  Until one day near the end of 2010, a friend mentioned to me about syngas.  I immediately look it up in the internet. Beginning then, I guess I have exhausted every available design of any kind of syngas production projects, ranging from simple one to highly scientific.   My line is here in the most simple biomass gasifier cook stove.  I had been surfing on the wood-gas camp presentations.  There are close to a hundred different designs of cook stove which are called microgasifier.   This bunch of microgasifiers has two major classifications, namely: Gasifier Stove and Rocket Stove.

             Syngas is produced from combustion in an oxygen starved environment.  It is actually carbon mono oxide, which is combustible. That is why Gasifier Stove is originally operated by natural convection.  Its makers are in resistance to the use of blower.  The invention of it fascinated many.  The type I like most is the Lucia Stove. Although, cooking with it has something that is inconvenient the part of the user.  It is using wood pellets or wood chips as fuel.  Rocket Stove came into existence as a product of continuing effort to eliminate hassles encountered in the operation of the Gasifier Stove. Rocket Stove may be coined quasi gasifier, yet it is competitive, because it uses cheaper fuel (preparation wise), and easier to manage when cooking.   

 

          This is my questions: If these stoves are really fine alternative and cheaper than LPG and electric stoves, why is it that not so many homes are using these?  I engaged my self, in almost two years of experimentations and observations.  I found many factors that makes these stoves unfriendly to the user.  I made adjustments.             
          
           finally I come up wih two-burner stove design.   I thank the Lord for challenges and enjoyment there is, while doing this project.