Test result
Water boiling test (WBT)
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Stove and fuel
Stove description
Eucal-3-Stone. Rural people with nomadic tendencies and people who live in pavements with no permanent shelter arrange three stones or bricks for cooking and heating purposes. This is a simple open fire cooking arrangement. No special skill or investment cost is involved in constructing, operating and maintaining them. The pot hole size can also be varied by adjusting the stones.
Stove characteristics
Three stone fire
Fuel type
Wood
Fuel description
Eucalyptus
Fuel moisture content
not available
Fuel net calorific value
15.3 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
Show subtiers
unrated
Emissions
unrated
Efficiency
unrated
Indoor emissions
unrated
Safety
Performance metrics
IWA emissions  
Metric Value SD (σ) Cv
IWA high power CO 22.168 g/MJ-del
IWA high power PM 347.017 mg/MJ-del
IWA indoor emissions  
Metric Value SD (σ) Cv
IWA CO 1.083 g/min
IWA PM 16.952 mg/min
Emissions
Metric Value SD (σ) Cv
CH4 emissions factor (2) 2.833 g/kg fuel
CO emissions factor (2) 60.15 g/kg fuel
CO emissions rate 1.082935421 g/min