Clean Cooking Catalog

Stove and fuel

Stove description

Vesto

Stove characteristics

Non-traditional, Gasifier (TLUD)

Fuel type

Wood

Fuel description

Acacia, dry

Fuel moisture content

0.1%

Fuel net calorific value

18.5 MJ/kg

Test information

Test details

Conducted at community meeting location in Dadaab Refugee Camp. Cooked water (4158g), rice (1434g), tomatoes (330g), oil (148g).

Testing organization

Berkeley Air Monitoring Group

Reporting type

Not available

Country

Kenya

Year performed

2010

Test environment

Field

Altitude

not available

Number of replicate tests

24

Source information

Citation

Pennise, D. et al., 2010. Evaluation of Manufactured Wood-Burning Stoves in Dadaab Refugee Camps, Kenya, Washington, D.C.: United States Agency for International Development

Source data

not available

Test result IWA tiers of performance

Show subtiers

unrated

Emissions

High power CO

—

Low power CO

—

High power PM 2.5

—

Low power PM 2.5

—

unrated

Efficiency

High power thermal efficiency

—

Low power specific consumption

—

unrated

Indoor emissions

High power indoor CO

—

Low power indoor CO

—

High power indoor PM 2.5

—

Low power indoor PM 2.5

—

unrated

Safety

No subtiers

Performance metrics

CCT/UCT metrics

Metric	Value	SD (σ)	C_v
Specific consumption (fuel)	202.0 g fuel/kg food	43.0	0.21
Specific consumption (energy)	3.737 MJ/kg food	0.7955	0.21
Specific consumption savings from baseline	32.0%
Time to cook food	47.0 min	8.0	0.17