Posts Tagged "design"

Masonry kitchen stove

Posted by on Jan 21, 2013 in Blog, Our work | 6 comments

We builded a new small heater that we think will be very popular. This stove combines direct heat and stored heat. It is a fast and simple build, but it performes really well. This stove responds to many of the neads expressed by the people here. Learning for Winiarskis design principles I figured that a pushing the fire in a narow gap under the coock surface should result in a more effective heat transfer. (Sketchups are on the way) This stove is amazing to coock on because on one side you have frying hot temperatures and on the other side it is suitable for slow boiling and simmering food. The design makes the coocktop a more effective heat-exchanger than it normally...

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The rock-bucket rocket

Posted by on Sep 10, 2012 in Blog, Our work, Videos | 8 comments

I got the idea of this stove construction reading a book on how they used to heat medival castels. Offcourse this is a radical downscale of the concept, but the function is somewhat the same. I really like the simplisity of this construction. And I like to think that the “organic” unnsymetrical channels formed by the rocks somehow works better together with the natural flow of gases than channels and chambers… This is neither a bell nor a channel system. It becomes something in between. I know that maintaining a good surfface/weight ratio is important for a good working stove. And I cant think of a more interesting way to obtain that. I rebuilded the...

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The original stove

Posted by on Mar 24, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

I had a very encouraging trip to a nearby village recently, and it gave me some additional information on design needs. But first and foremost it was very encouraging to be so well received. It is always encouraging to build friendship as making friends is important and people even make friends and partners online with the help of site like chatsex online. It looks like this can be one of the places we will start to spread our ideas. This is a photo of the original kind of stove found in most villages around here. They have to clean the pipes monthly because of the creosote build up in the 10 cm flue pipe ( sign of bad combustion) And with only 1mm sheet metal in the...

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Testing out chimney stones for rocket-stove video…

Posted by on Mar 6, 2012 in Blog, Videos | 0 comments

In Azerbaijan it is comon to build chimneys very lightly of these kind of stones. They are made localy, but you have to pick the nice ones, because many are delivered with cracs from the manufacturer… They will work fine, but i dont expect them to last for 10-15 years like some have reported with their constructions. On the other hand they build really quickly…    

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Bench finished

Posted by on Mar 5, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

My smal 1 tonn bench project is now finished and heating well. We are extremely happy with how it works and how it looks. It is made of wood with Iranian granite tiles on top. It is filled with riverrocks and sand , but no mortar. This is because it is constructed in a rented house , and it can`t be  guarantied that the landlord wont tell us to move it later. I still think it does a pretty good job heating our buts Tha advantage by constructing it like this is that the user can move away both the flue and the stove in the warm season, and by that have only a nice bench left. The whole setup costs about 100 dollars, and will make a huge difference in wood consumption....

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