Test result
Water boiling test (WBT)
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Stove and fuel
Stove description
Rice-tm, a simple `U' shaped heavy stove for a single pot made by households with locally available clay and coated with cowdung clay mixture.
Stove characteristics
Traditional
Fuel type
Crop residues
Fuel description
Rice
Fuel moisture content
not available
Fuel net calorific value
13.0 MJ/kg
Test information
Test details
not available
Testing organization
University of California, Berkeley
Reporting type
Not available
Country
India
Year performed
2000
Test environment
Lab
Altitude
not available
Number of replicate tests
3
Source information
Citation
Smith, Kirk R., R. Uma, V.V.N. Kishore, K. Lata, V. Joshi, Junfeng Zhang, R.A. Rasmussen, and M.A.K. Khalil. 2000. GREENHOUSE GASES FROM SMALL-SCALE COMBUSTION DEVICES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: PHASE IIA Household Stoves in India. Environmental Protection Agency (June).
Source data
not available
Test result IWA tiers of performance
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unrated
Emissions
unrated
Efficiency
unrated
Indoor emissions
unrated
Safety
Performance metrics
IWA emissions  
Metric Value SD (σ) Cv
IWA high power CO 38.138 g/MJ-del
IWA high power PM 630.413 mg/MJ-del
IWA indoor emissions  
Metric Value SD (σ) Cv
IWA CO 1.48 g/min
IWA PM 24.465 mg/min
Emissions
Metric Value SD (σ) Cv
CH4 emissions factor (2) 5.39 g/kg fuel
CO emissions factor (2) 48.7 g/kg fuel
CO emissions rate 1.480061397 g/min