Stoves Clean Most Polluted City in the World

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are known for designing high-efficiency cookstoves for Darfur and Ethiopia. Now they are applying their expertise to the windswept steppes of Mongolia, whose capital city, Ulaan Baatar, is among the most polluted cities in the world.

The scientists are working with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S. foreign aid agency, to improve air quality in the capital city by lowering emissions from outdated stoves and boilers. MCC has a five-year project in Mongolia to reduce poverty and promote sustainable economic growth. In 2010 the agency approached Berkeley Lab’s Ashok Gadgil, the driving force behind the Berkeley-Darfur stoves, to lend vision and technical expertise to solving Mongolia’s air quality problem.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Stoves-Could-Lessen-Mongolia-Awful-Pollution-060112.aspx

11 months ago
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Newer Cookstoves Emit More Dangerous ParticlesThe first real-world, head-to-head comparison of “improved cookstoves” (ICs) and traditional mud stoves has found that some ICs may at times emit more of the worrisome “black carbon,” or soot, particles that are linked to serious health and environmental concerns than traditional mud stoves or open-cook fires. The report, which raises concerns about the leading hope as a clean cooking technology in the developing world, appears in ACS’ journal Environmental Science & Technology.Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Improved-Cookstoves-Can-be-More-Dangerous-than-Mud-Stoves-040412.aspx

Newer Cookstoves Emit More Dangerous Particles

The first real-world, head-to-head comparison of “improved cookstoves” (ICs) and traditional mud stoves has found that some ICs may at times emit more of the worrisome “black carbon,” or soot, particles that are linked to serious health and environmental concerns than traditional mud stoves or open-cook fires. The report, which raises concerns about the leading hope as a clean cooking technology in the developing world, appears in ACS’ journal Environmental Science & Technology.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Improved-Cookstoves-Can-be-More-Dangerous-than-Mud-Stoves-040412.aspx

1 year ago
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Energy-Efficient Cook Stoves for HaitiThe developers of the fuel-efficient Berkeley-Darfur Stove for refugee camps in central Africa are at it once again, this time evaluating inexpensive metal cook stoves for the displaced survivors of last year’s deadly earthquake in Haiti. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have teamed up with students from the Univ. of California, Berkeley to run a series of efficiency tests comparing the traditional Haiti cook stove with a variety of low-cost, commercially available alternatives.Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Energy-Efficient-Cook-Stoves-for-Haiti-092911.aspx

Energy-Efficient Cook Stoves for Haiti

The developers of the fuel-efficient Berkeley-Darfur Stove for refugee camps in central Africa are at it once again, this time evaluating inexpensive metal cook stoves for the displaced survivors of last year’s deadly earthquake in Haiti. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have teamed up with students from the Univ. of California, Berkeley to run a series of efficiency tests comparing the traditional Haiti cook stove with a variety of low-cost, commercially available alternatives.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Energy-Efficient-Cook-Stoves-for-Haiti-092911.aspx

1 year ago
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