Dear Paul and All
It may be worth keeping your eye on the Mongolian home stove replacement program by MCC (Millennium Challenge Corp) which ends in September though will be continued by the Ulaanbaatar City government. It has replaced something like 100,000 stoves with a value in the range of $15m so far. Almost all of them are TLUD's. The % improvement in combustion efficiency and emissions reduction of PM, BC and CO has been greater for coal burning stoves than for any other device and it has not received the attention that it deserves. The performance improvement was not accidental - meaning it is the result of an iterative process of testing and analysis. It is unfortunate in the extreme that these stoves were not included in the Stove Inventory because they indicate the level of performance which can be achieved with scientific testing and sound design advice. The fuels being used are more difficult to deal with than wood or wood pellets yet they have achieved much better performance so I think it is remiss for the TLUD promoters not to be on top of this situation. I don't think there is another improved stove programme currently going on with $15m work of product already on the street. The project is about to step up a gear to include the low pressure water heating stoves and mass wall heaters both of which were left in abeyance by the urgency to deal with ger stoves. The organisations involved are numerous, but I will mention the highest profile being: The City of Ulaanbaatar MCC/MCA Mongolia (USA) Asian Development Bank World Bank Xac Bank (pronounced 'khass') Accomplishments: The reduction in CO is >70% and in PM+BC >90%. There are fuel consumption reduction benefits though this has been secondary to air quality in terms of the main goals. There are >150,000 home stoves in use in the city plus thousands of other combustors. A complete transition from conventional combustors to advanced ones will take a few more years. There are two designs that have proven to be truly worthy of dissemination: crossdraft burners (which can be hopper fed) and batch-loaded TLUD's. Both are capable of a 99% reduction in PM and I believe BC which forms a great fraction of it. Regards Crispin ++++++++ Dear Stephen, Your research with 100 households is highly important. But I hope that some of your key results on usage will be made available soon. To wait until the end of the year to maybe have peer-review publication before we see the results is a looooong time. Just knowing the trends or "favorable" vs "unfavorable" will help. Paul
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