The global increase in population coupled with poor access to clean energy has set
pressure on solid fuel use. Through this, about one-third of the world's population currently …

Improved biomass cookstoves has been a topic of research for more than 40 years, but still
2.6 billion people cook over an open biomass fire. A large volume of information on the …

As a huge rural population worldwide is depending on open-fired or traditional cookstoves
to meet daily domestic energy needs, improvement of thermal efficiency and reduction of …

Improving the thermal as well as emissions performance of biomass cookstoves has been of
interest to researchers for a long time. Despite there being a vast literature on the subject …

Interest in reducing household energy consumption and indoor air pollutants has increased.
Simple devices such as cookstoves are important items in the reduction of the amount of …

The utilization of biomass for cooking and heating is old, occurring from the early stages of
human evolution because of its wide and easy availability. In Asia, a majority of the …

The use of biomass resources for cooking and heating is as old as the origin of human
civilization due to the fact that biomass is available almost everywhere and can be burnt …

Food is essential for survival of human being. Cooking or baking of food material requires
thermal energy and such energy in developed countries is meeting through electricity …

Exposure to air pollutant emissions from household combustion of solid fuels is leading risk
factor for premature deaths in the developing countries. A natural draft Improved Cook Stove …

Solid fuel consumption in traditional cookstoves with low efficiency and high polluting
performances leads to severe energy waste and atmospheric environment disruption …