Development and evaluation performance of top-lit updraft biomass micro-gasifiers for energy-intensive household cooking tasks in Mexico | IIES

Development and evaluation performance of top-lit updraft biomass micro-gasifiers for energy-intensive household cooking tasks in Mexico

Development and evaluation performance of top-lit updraft biomass micro-gasifiers for energy-intensive household cooking tasks in Mexico

Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 2024 Vol.67 No. Art. 103813

Sánchez-Pólito, J., Berrueta, V., Ruiz-García, V., Beltrán, A., Herrera-Medina, E., Cazarez-Barboza, M., Álvarez-Icaza, L., Masera, O.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su16114760

Abstract

In many Latin American households, traditional and low-efficiency cookstoves are still used to perform household cooking tasks requiring significant energy. This results in high fuel expenditure and severe indoor and environmental pollution, with severe negative health consequences. It has been shown that top-lit updraft (TLUD) biomass gasifier cookstoves, also known as micro-gasifiers (MG-TLUD), are an efficient solid biofuel conversion technology. However, only a limited number of studies have been conducted so far evaluating the effects of the design geometric parameters of MG-TLUD on their energy performance and indoor air pollutant (IAP) emissions. Further, no studies have looked at the adaptation of forced-draft MG-TLUD to be used with chimney cookstoves in high-energy cooking tasks. For this study, three MG-TLUD prototypes that use agroforest waste biomass pellets as fuel were designed and developed to be used as combustion chambers in a chimney cookstove. Special consideration was given to the device’s reactor size and the geometric parameters of the primary and secondary air entry holes, to improve their performance in cooking tasks culturally relevant for Mexican households. Initially, this cookstove used a rocket-type combustion chamber (RCC), which was substituted by the MG-TLUD prototypes. MG-TLUD and RCC performance results were compared with voluntary performance targets for biomass cookstoves based on laboratory testing. The P3-Chupiri prototype achieved the ISO/TR 19867-3 highest performance level (Tier-5) regarding thermal efficiency, fuel savings, and IAP emissions reduction. © 2024 Elsevier Ltd.


Ver todas las publicaciones del IIES

Temas relacionados

Publicaciones IIES

95 registros « 1 de 19 »

2024

Carrillo-Castañeda, Michelle; Jiménez-Belmán, Aislinn A; Gómez-Romero, Mariela; García-Oliva, Felipe; Lindig-Cisneros, Roberto

Potential for carbon sequestration in severely degraded temperate climate sites: Acrisol and Andosol gullies in Mexico Artículo de revista

Forest Systems, 33 (2), 2024, (Cited by: 0; All Open Access, Gold Open Access).

Enlaces

Pacheco-Flores, Alana; Casas, Alejandro; Moreno-Calles, Ana I; Lindig-Cisneros, Roberto; Rendón-Sandoval, Francisco Javier; Mora-Ardila, Francisco; Estañol-Tecuatl, Fernando; Álvarez-Ríos, Gonzalo D; Ortega-Álvarez, Rubén

Secondary Succession in Fallow Agroforestry Systems Managed in Tropical Dry Forest in Western Mexico Artículo de revista

Sustainability (Switzerland), 16 (11), 2024, (Cited by: 1; All Open Access, Gold Open Access).

Enlaces

Ortiz-Mendoza, Rubén; González-Tagle, Marco A; Pérez-Salicrup, Diego R; Aguirre-Calderón, Oscar A; Himmelsbach, Wibke; Cuéllar-Rodríguez, Luis G

Fire behavior and litter layer consumption in pine-fir and pine-oak forests; [Comportamiento del fuego y consumo de la capa de hojarasca en bosques de pino-oyamel y pino-encino] Artículo de revista

Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Forestales, 15 (86), pp. 77 – 100, 2024, (Cited by: 0).

Enlaces

Maya-García, Omar; Maya-Elizarrarás, Elisa; Lara, Carlos; Schondube, Jorge E

Arthropod Foraging in a Temperate Mountain Hummingbird Ensemble Artículo de revista

Birds, 5 (4), pp. 774 – 797, 2024, (Cited by: 0; All Open Access, Gold Open Access).

Enlaces

Servín-Campuzano, Luisa Sebastiana; Gerritsen, Peter Rijnaldus Wilhelmus; Peña-Mondragón, Juan Luis; Ramírez-Martínez, María Magdalena

The zoocultural heritage of the P’urhépecha indigenous people; [El patrimonio zoocultural de los P´urhépecha] Artículo de revista

Caldasia, 46 (2), pp. 224 – 236, 2024, (Cited by: 0).

Enlaces

95 registros « 1 de 19 »