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Thaba Tseka Biomass Stove

[reducing amount of wood fuel needed for cooking and heating]

[Summary & Motivation] [Community] [Specifications] [Issues] [Contacts] [Diagrams / Pictures]

Summary & Motivation	Project Initiator: ATS Start Date: Before 2003 Projected Completion Date: Before 2005 Current Status: Production and refinement Lesotho is a country with a very low amount of available biomass for burning. Using an open fire to heat and cook is inefficient (Around 8%), so ATS has been working to develop a stove that requires less fuel. The thaba tseka stove was developed by the now defunct Thaba Tseka Technical Institute (Hence the stove's common nickname of the "TTI Stove"), and it can use coal and cow dung in addition to wood. The stove allows for increased efficiency by funneling the heat upwards towards two steel burner plates. Currently, the stoves have an efficiency of around 28%, and they are one of the more popular items available at ATS. [top]
Community	This technology would be marketed to rural women who currently use open fires to cook their food products. The stove would be used by a single household. [top]
Specifications	Must produce both heat and warm cooking surface Should not create harmful household environment Should fully combust biomass (Efficient) Light weight Affordable [top]
Issues	Help is needed in the following areas: Developing a stove which both efficiently heats and cooks Reducing weight of current stove Preventing smoke from exiting at weld joints (Should only exit at chimney) Designing a way for stove to hold three-legged pot Developing insulation to make stove more efficient Evaluating other materials for construction, including alternatives to steel Reducing product cost so that the stove is an attractive alternative to collecting wood Privatizing production [top]
Contacts	Project Leader: Lengeta Mabea MIT Contact:   ATS Contact: Lengeta Mabea <mabeald@Yahoo.com> Website (If applicable): N/A [top]
Diagrams / Pictures	DIAGRAMS Description (Name) [Date] Download Thaba Tseka Stove Solidworks model of stove developed during winter visit to ATS. Dimensions were measured from actual stove. *NOTE: Stove pipe is NOT shown in drawings, but can be added in variable lengths* (M. Zedler) [8.30.05] *.zip (1.1 MB) PICTURES Description (Name) [Date] Download Thaba Tseka Photo Album Five pictures of the TTI stove with captions. (ATS / M. Zedler) [8.30.05] *.html (Link) Solidworks Model Pictorial rendering of Solidworks model available above. Isometric view. Click on thumbnail for bigger *.jpeg picture (M. Zedler) [8.31.05]. Solidworks Model Exploded Pictorial rendering of Solidworks model available above. Isometric view with components exploded outwards. Click on thumbnail for bigger *.jpeg picture (M. Zedler) [8.31.05]. [top]

*.pdf - Portable Document File / *.doc - Document (Microsoft Word) / *.jpg - Joint Photographic Experts Group (Browser) / *.zip - WinZip Compressed File (WinZip)

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