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Performance assessment of an efficient biomass fired cook stove as a standby unit for community cooking

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About 67% of the Indian population uses the simple traditional cook stoves using wood, coal, etc., as the primary fuel sources. These traditional cook stoves have thermal efficiency hardly (10–15%) with in-efficient utilization of scared natural resources. These lead to excessive smoke emission coupled with indoor air pollution. Community cooking in hostels of academic institutions of Northeast India is done by firewood, charcoal, or coal in a very inefficient way during the insufficient supply of non-renewable liquefied petroleum gas. Therefore, the present work directs design and performance testing of an efficient community biomass fired cook stove (four burners). The overall dimensions of the improved stove were (1650 mm × 1500 mm × 650 mm). Delonix regia (Gulmohar) was considered as a fuel for the cook stove. The stoichiometric air requirement was estimated as 6.06 kg against per kilogram of feedstock. The firepower of the improved cook stove was estimated as 86.54 kW under the stoichiometric combustion condition. Overall fuel combustion rate of the burner was 19.23 kg h−1 woody biomass. Maximum thermal efficiency at 20% excess air was 40%, and the burning rate of the fuel in the improved cook stove was computed as 0.0718 kg/min. The specific wood consumption was estimated as 0.20 kg/kg of water boiled at the maximum thermal efficiency point.

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Abbreviations

A:

Flow area (m2)

AFR:

Air fuel ratio

ASTM:

American Society for Testing and Materials

Cl :

Loss coefficient

CP :

Specific heat (kJ kg−1K)

FCR:

Fuel consumption rate

Cw :

Specific heat of water (kJ kg−1K)

EAR:

Excess air ratio

FCR:

Fuel consumption rate

F:

Burning rate of fuel (kg min−1)

H:

Height of chimney from center of fuel inlet

H:

Enthalpy (kJ)

hC :

Cold enthalpy

hH :

Hot enthalpy

HT:

Heat transfer

LHV:

Lower heating value (MJ kg−1)

Lv :

Latent heat of vaporization of water (kJ kg−1)

\(\dot{m}\) :

Mass flow rate

\({m}^{"}\) :

Mass loss coefficient

M:

Molecular weight

O:

Oxygen

mA :

Mass of air (kg)

PHU:

Percentage heat utilization

\(\dot{Q}\) :

Heat addition (W)

P:

Pressure (bar)

R:

Universal gas constant

SWC:

Specific wood consumption

T:

Temperature (°C)

\(\dot{V}\) :

Volume flow rate (m3 s−1)

X:

Moisture percentage

ρ:

Density (kg m−3)

η:

Efficiency

\({\eta }_{TE}\) :

Thermal efficiency

\({\eta }_{Comb}\) :

Combustion efficiency

\(\varnothing\) :

Equivalence ratio

Da:

Dry air

amb:

Ambient

e:

Evaporated

i:

Initial

f:

Final

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Conceptualization: Partha Pratim Dutta; methodology: Partha Pratim Dutta; formal analysis and investigation: Partha Pratim Dutta, Polash Protim Dutta; writing — original draft preparation: Partha Pratim Dutta; writing — review and editing: Partha Pratim Dutta, Raktimjyoti Borpatragohain, Polash Pratim Dutta; funding acquisition: NIL; resources: Partha Pratim Dutta, Polash Protim Dutta; supervision: Partha Pratim Dutta.

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Highlights

1. An improved biomass fired cook stove was developed for community cooking.

2. Its thermal performance was evaluated.

3. The minimum and maximum thermal efficiencies were 23 and 40%, respectively.

4. The firepower of the improved cook stove was 86.54 kW.

5. The ranges of indoor CO 2  was (900–650) ppm and CO (5–20) ppm, respectively.

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Dutta, P.P., Borpatra Gohain, R. & Dutta, P.P. Performance assessment of an efficient biomass fired cook stove as a standby unit for community cooking. Biomass Conv. Bioref. 13, 11609–11620 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-022-02745-1

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