I am proposing to introduce steam driven cookstoves instead of LPG cookers to overcome the community suffering current issue of LPG in my country. It is planning to operate a cluster of stoves in urbanized area through centrally located biomass fired steam boiler. I have quite manageable knowledge, skills and experiences in thermal engineering such as steam generation, distribution, boiler operation etc. But lack of in steam operated domestic stoves/cockers. I would appreciate, if any expert can help me either to design or purchase such product or contact of such dealers.
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Dear Gedion,
Thank you for the quick response as the first comment. But I am seeking a steam operated cookstove/oven to replace the existing LP gas cooker. The link you given is related to water boiling via solar energy and it is common in my county. Please welcome further your answer to the same.
Jayasinghe
Dera Dhaundiyal
I am keen in steam generation and distribution applications. But issue me to find a suitable device to replace the LPG or biomass fired cook stoves by similar used steam operated stove. Let me know, if you are familiar with the manufacture or the dealer.
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Jayasinghe
Sri Lanka
What the question lies here is that, are you talking about community kitchen or individual households, how are you going to cater supply demand ratio for steam generating equipment. As its efficiency also depends on running near to its designed running load.
Finding a way to distribute biomass cheaply among required people is better than wasting energy generated by biomass to generate steam and transport or develop a steam cooker. Also, electricity generation via biomass is a better alternative.
Dear Nipuna
Thank you for the comments.
But the way you understood was something wrong. What I mean is to introduce clean renewable energy supply mechanism in urbanized areas especially the housing schemes/apartment residences etc. This would be a centralized energy generation in particular location and distributes among the nearest residences for cooking applications. Not only the power generation, even currently many industries have been shifted from fossil fuel fired steam boilers to the firewood fired steam generation systems to obtain their thermal energy demand.
I think that you may not have an idea about the lower performance and pollutants emission of traditional and existing biomass fired stoves/cookers. Further, now a days bio mas is not freely available, and it has good market potential even bonification fuels (formed fuels) such as pellets, briquettes, chips etc.
As the engineers, scientists, researchers, we should think in different ways to promote the locally available resources to use in correct and efficient ways through new and updated technologies.
I know the mechanism and also potential availability to implement such project. But the issue will be to find a device; like steam cooker, similar to the currently available single or two burner LPG cocker. Otherwise introducing completely different new stoves implementation in community level would be difficult with their traditional practiced cooking pattern.
Once again, thank you very much for your interest in this que. I would appreciate your feedbacks, if you are further interest or you have any idea/dealer related to the similar products.
Thanks
Jayasinghe K T
Research Fellow
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