Design Principles For Wood Burning Cook Stoves PDF Download

Around 2,600 million people in the world depend on biomass for cooking, and every year the smoke this produces in the kitchen causes around 1 million deaths. This can be resolved by improved cooking stoves that use less wood and carry smoke out of harms way. This book is a concise, practical and low-fat guide to designing and building a Maya Petén cooking stove. The stove is a low-cost and effective solution that improves health in the home and uses less firewood. You’ll learn about the basic principles of heat transfer and the thermal properties of materials. Taking you through the design and build process step-by-step with ample illustrations, the book tells you what you need to know for building an efficient and long-lasting stove for a wide variety of applications.