Aprovecho Research Center eNewsletter

Don't Let The Flame Touch The Pot Zones of a Laminar Diffusion Flame www.chemistryviews.org/

Early Rocket Stove Research at Aprovecho Still Rings True A summary of Global Modeling and Testing of

Cookstoves for ETHOS An open fire Jet-Flame? We have been at Shengzhou Stove Manufacturer this

A Clean Open Fire? When Dr. Tom Reed and Dr. Larry Winiarski added short, narrow chimneys above the

Turn Down Ratio One of the things that I like about the IWA Water Boiling Test is that it mimics the

Aprovecho Visits Tanzania In September, Jaden traveled to Tanzania to help set up a LEMS at the

Stick Size: CO, PM2.5 and Thermal Efficiency The diameter of sticks from the same species of wood (we

ISO 19867: Thermal Efficiency Boiling that five liters in 25 minutes max! There have been many

What a Great Year! Regional Testing and Knowledge Centers ARC just received a grant to hire full time

AI: Great but Stuck in a Box It's great to have colleagues whose opinions are trusted. Dr. Larry

Cleaning Up Combustion: TOO COLD! In the middle of August, we had three stoves under development

Lowering Emissions in a Short, Natural Draft TLUD The great thing about 12” high tincanium natural

Learning From People A rat proof box When Dr. Larry Winiarski and I lived for a season at Rancho San

Capacity Building with CSIR Over the past 3 years, thanks to three grants from Fire Capital,

Concentrator Disk/Chimney in a TLUD When I asked Google AI, “Is flow more laminar in a smaller

Carbon Credits and Fuel Savings? Photo from TREEAID on Flickr Looking at the photo it is easy to

The Water Boiling Test, Repeatedly In my opinion, the WBT* cannot be used, especially in the lab, to

The Concentrator Ring in a TLUD Image from Dr. Paul Anderson's Introduction to TChar (TLUD)

Supporting Best Practice Cooking outdoors, making hot fires, burning the tips of sticks to use less

Winiarski: Improving Agricultural Food Dryers Sometimes it's too cloudy for solar drying and a

Welcome to our intermittent special edition "What's Cooking at Aprovecho" E-Newsletter,

Help Us Empower Engineers in Developing Countries — $1000 Goal ARC Engineer Jaden Berger with the

Market Driven Stoves Photo by Güldem Üstün on Flickr One of the biggest mistakes I have made was

Fireless Cooking Has A Long History Thanks to Robert Fairchild for sending this reminder that what we

Remembering Ken Goyer On the front porch of the house he built in West Eugene, Ken Goyer shows an

New on the Website! Improving Biomass Stoves 2025 Find a download link here The new Osprey funded

Aprovecho Research Center, 2025 ARC started in 1976, almost 50 years ago. In 1982, the original cook

Building Blocks to Health In 2018, the World Health Organization published the book “Air pollution

Applications of Pulling Woodgas Through Burning Charcoal We experimented at SSM with a “Horizontal

Wow! The Clean Biomass Future Is Now! Central Boiler combustion chamber Last week Dean and Travis