Test result
Water boiling test (WBT)
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Stove and fuel
Stove description
Ghana Wood, A circular metal clad ceramic stove 18 cm high. The pot sits above the stove top on three steel supports.
Stove characteristics
Ceramic-lined, Non-traditional
Fuel type
Wood
Fuel moisture content
not available
Fuel net calorific value
not available
Test information
Test details
WBT-3.0, 5 Liters Boiled
Testing organization
Aprovecho Research Center
Reporting type
Not available
Country
United States
Year performed
2010
Test environment
Lab
Altitude
not available
Number of replicate tests
3
Source information
Citation
MacCarty, N., D. Still, and D. Ogle. 2010. Fuel Use and Emissions Performance of Fifty Cooking Stoves in the Laboratory and Related Benchmarks of Performance. Energy for Sustainable Development 14: 161-171. / Aprovecho Research Center (2011). Test Results of Cookstove Performance (Washington, D.C.: Partnership for Clean Indoor Air).
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 7.473 g/MJ-del
IWA high power PM 1298.37 mg/MJ-del
IWA low power CO 0.156 g/min/L
IWA low power PM 7.189 mg/min/L
IWA efficiency  
Metric Value SD (σ) Cv
IWA high power thermal efficiency 25.4782293%
IWA low power specific consumption 0.029 MJ/min/L
IWA indoor emissions  
Metric Value SD (σ) Cv
IWA CO 0.841 g/min
IWA PM 114.08 mg/min
Efficiency, energy consumption and fuel use
Metric Value SD (σ) Cv
Specific energy consumption 15200.0 kJ/task
Fuel consumed 875.0 g/task
Hot start thermal efficiency 27.4%
Cold start thermal efficiency 23.5%
Output
Metric Value SD (σ) Cv
Cold start firepower 6774.0 W
Hot start firepower 6207.0 W
Simmer firepower 3298.0 W
Mean time to boil 21.8 min
Emissions
Metric Value SD (σ) Cv
CO emissions factor (2) 70.37427221 g/kg fuel
CO emissions rate 0.840944933 g/min