Rethinking Biomass Cook stove Innovations and Issues
Journal Title: International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology (IJRASET) - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
India’s residential sector is a major consumer of energy whose energy demand will grow with prosperity and population growth. About 67% of households in India, which is equivalent to 166 million households, remain wedded to solid fuels like coal, wood, branches, twigs, dungcakes, agricultural residues or even leaves and grass as their primary source of cooking fuel. While conversion to modern fuels has accelerated in urban areas, population in rural areas have been slow to move away from solid fuels. Solid biomass fuels will continue to play an important role in energy mix of households and use of traditional cookstoves for utilizing these fuels in them will remain an area of concern for years to come. “Traditional Biomass cookstove” is a physical structure that contains air-fuel combustion for heat release, and subsequently, directs the heat of combustion towards a cooking target. The smoke emitted from such biomass cookstove is made up of total suspended particulates and gaseous chemicals. The people in inaccessible and rural areas cook their food on such poor thermal efficiency cookstoves that creates serious health problems for women and children. It is estimated that about 3% of the diseases are caused due to incomplete combustion of biomass, which results in around 1.6 million premature deaths every year including around 0.9 million children death. This paper review the issues related with the biomass cookstoves and give suggestion to improve it utilization techniques. The scientific community around the globe is working on improving the cooking environment and has developed various models of improved biomass cookstoves. Improved cookstoves technology is technically feasible, socially reliable and economically viable and it reduces the pressure on the biomass resources, minimise the household expenditure on biomass, reduces the time required for collection of fuel wood and reduces indoor air pollution.
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Dr. Harshika Kumari
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