Improved smokeless biomass cook stove for residential schools & community cooking

By S.Khuntia
Ex-Chief Scientist of CSIR, Govt of India Bhubaneswar, India

Inventor: Various Improved cook stoves & Rural technologies

Member of Core committee of MNRE-GOI on Biomass cook stove pgm.

E.mail: khuntias@gmail.com Mob: 09437012679 March 2013

Residential school in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India : 350 SC & ST students

Traditional Cook Stove in school

U Type brick stove (chulha) without grate. Fuel: Firewood. Pot size : 36 to 24 inch diameter, flat bottom. Present cooking for: 300-400 children Food preparation: Rice, dal & vegetable, two times. Cooking period: 120 to 135 minutes (depending upon items) Smoke & shoot: excessive Room temperature: High (intolerable) Exhaust of gas & smoke from kitchen: Through door & window

Traditional cook stove & kitchen

Black shoot coating inside the kitchen due to excessive smoke

Improved smokeless cook stove Installed in Ashram school:

Designed by : S.Khuntia, Ex-Chief Scientist of CSIR
(during December 2012)

Installed by :
M/S Modern Pottery Industry, Bhubaneswar at
Ashram School, Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar, SC & ST Dept. Govt of Odisha Sponsored by : District Collector, Khurdha through its District Welfare officer Period of Installation: December 2012

KHUNTIA IMPROVED COMMUNITY FIXED CHULHA WITH CHIMNEY

Chimney outside of kitchen

Cooking by KHUNTIA- Smokeless stove)

Inside hearth and top plate to accommodate small size pots

Performance study of KHUNTIA stove: Comparasion with Traditional stove

Sl. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 9. Parameter Construction Cooking capacity Firewood consumption Fuel saving over traditional Cooking period Smoke Room temperature Tentative life Traditional stove Red Brick & clay 300 400 children 105 kg/day 120 135 minutes Excessive & burning eye Quite high (intolerable) 5 10 years KHUNTIA- Cook Stove Red brick, cement sand mortar & steel chimney 300 400 children 75 kg/day 29% at present (Designed for 30%) 85 100 minutes Almost Nil Normal as outside More than 10 years

9. 10.

Cost Recovery of cost

About Rs. 2000/-

About Rs.10,000/Within two months

Other Improved cook stoves invented by S.Khuntia & utilized in NPIC of MNRE, Govt. of India during 1998 to 2003
Harsha multifuel portable stoves ( Family & Community) Fixed chulhas with chimney (SK-1, SK-2, SK-3, SK-4, SKAgni, SK-Delux etc) All stoves propagated by OREDA, Govt. of Odisha under NPIC during 1990 to 2003 in Odisha. More than 3.0 million units of above design cook stoves disseminated in different parts of India. OREDA had disseminated more than 1.5 million units of above stoves in Odisha.

Harsha Multi-fuel stove family size

Harsha Multi-fuel Community stove

DeluxMulti-fuel community fixed stove

SK-Deluxe Multi-Fuel fixed Chulha (family size)

Jyostna Multi-fuel stove

Performance of Multi-fuel stoves

Model

Present Thermal Materials for cost efficiency CO/CO2 construction (%) (Rs)
-Mild steel (MS) MS -> 25% < 0.04

TSP
(Mg/M3)

Cooking capacity (person)

--

As per BIS Portable Stoves Harsha Jyostna

< 2mg/M3

600 550 4000 250

30-43 30-42 30-51 28-40

0.007 0.0075 0.0055 0.0065

1.8 1.82 1.71 1.75

8 8 50-400 8

Harsha MS (community)
Fixed Stoves MS and clay SK-Delux SK-Delux MS and clay (community)

1250

30-42

0.0055

1.70

50-400

NOTE : Exhaust gas drawn from a hood, 350 mm from top of stove (with dilution)

SK-1 double pot stove with chimney

SK-3 Single pot stove with chimney

Pottery-lined fixed chulhas with chimney

SK-3 Pottery-lined fixed chulha with chimney

(Nearly 2.5 million stoves sold in India)

SK-Agni Fixed Chulha (Without chimney)

Thanking you