Laboratory testing of the innovative low-cost mewar angithi insert for improving energy efficiency of cooking tasks on three-stone fires in critical contexts

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Abstract

Currently, about 2.7 billion people across the world still lack access to clean cooking means. Humanitarian emergencies and post-emergencies are among the most critical situations: the utilization of traditional devices such as three-stone fires have a huge negative impact not only on food security but also on the socio-economic status of people, their health and the surrounding environment. Advanced Cooking Stoves may constitute better systems compared to actual ones, however, financial, logistic and time constraints have strongly limited the interventions in critical contexts until now. The innovative, low-cost Mewar Angithi insert for improving energy efficiency of three-stone fires may play a role in the transition to better cooking systems in such contexts. In this paper, we rely on the Water Boiling Test 4.2.3 to assess the performances of the Mewar Angithi insert respect to a traditional three-stone fire and we analyse the results through a robust statistical procedure. The potentiality and suitability of this novel solution is discussed for its use in critical contexts.

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Barbieri, J., Parigi, F., Riva, F., & Colombo, E. (2018). Laboratory testing of the innovative low-cost mewar angithi insert for improving energy efficiency of cooking tasks on three-stone fires in critical contexts. Energies, 11(12). https://doi.org/10.3390/en11123463

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