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The '''Rocket Stove''' is a variety of [[Fuelwood|wood]]-burning cooking stove. It is easy to construct, with low-cost materials. These are low-mass stoves designed to burn small pieces of wood very efficiently. Cooking is done on top of a short insulated chimney. The stoves are typically constructed out of trash: tin cans, old stovepipes, etc. A skirt around the pot will help hold heat in, increasing the efficiency.
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The '''Rocket Stove''' is a variety of [[Fuelwood|wood]]-burning cooking stove. It is easy to construct, with low-cost materials. These are low-mass stoves designed to burn small pieces of wood very efficiently. Cooking is done on top of a short insulated chimney. A skirt around the pot will help hold heat in, increasing the efficiency.
   
 
Rocket Stoves use branches, twigs, small wood scraps, or just about any small combustible material. The pieces of wood or other material burn at their tips, increasing combustion efficiency, creating a very hot fire, and eliminating smoke. The low-mass stove body and insulated chimney ensure that the heat goes into the cooking pot, not into the stove. Rocket stoves used in conjunction with hayboxes can save enormous amounts of fuel, cooking complete meals while using very few resources.
 
Rocket Stoves use branches, twigs, small wood scraps, or just about any small combustible material. The pieces of wood or other material burn at their tips, increasing combustion efficiency, creating a very hot fire, and eliminating smoke. The low-mass stove body and insulated chimney ensure that the heat goes into the cooking pot, not into the stove. Rocket stoves used in conjunction with hayboxes can save enormous amounts of fuel, cooking complete meals while using very few resources.
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'''Overview:''' Fire based solutions, such as the Rocket Stove, allow cooks to make meals when the sun isn't shining or achieve temperatures that would be difficult without expensive parabolic cookers. However, they do have drawbacks:
 
'''Overview:''' Fire based solutions, such as the Rocket Stove, allow cooks to make meals when the sun isn't shining or achieve temperatures that would be difficult without expensive parabolic cookers. However, they do have drawbacks:
   
* '''Pollution''' When biomass, such as wood, is consumed completely in the burning process, it produces carbon dioxide (C02) and water vapor (H20) alone. However, according to Joel S. Levine of the Atmospheric Sciences Competency NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, '[s]ince complete combustion is not achieved under any conditions of biomass burning, other carbon species, including carbon monoxide (CO), methane (CH4) nonmethane hydrocarbons (NMHCs), and particulate carbon, result through the incomplete combustion of biomass material. In addition, nitrogen and sulfur species are produced from the combustion of nitrogen and sulfur in the biomass material.' Further, it is possibly the most injurious common form of generating heat in terms of particulate emissions and other pollutants. The Union of Concerned Scientists give wood burning an environmental rating of 21,000 per dollar of expenditure for common pollutants and 27,000 per dollar for toxic pollutants. By comparison, solid waste disposal, the next highest rated group, resulted in numbers of around 1400 and 300 respectively for the same categories.
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* '''Pollution''' When biomass, such as wood, is consumed completely in the burning process, it produces carbon dioxide (C02) and water vapor (H20) alone. However, according to Joel S. Levine of the Atmospheric Sciences Competency NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, '[s]ince complete combustion is not achieved under any conditions of biomass burning, other carbon species, including carbon monoxide (CO), methane (CH4) nonmethane hydrocarbons (NMHCs), and particulate carbon, result through the incomplete combustion of biomass material. In addition, nitrogen and sulfur species are produced from the combustion of nitrogen and sulfur in the biomass material.' Further, it is possibly the most injurious common form of generating heat in terms of particulate emissions and other pollutants.
   
 
* '''Efficiency''' The book, "Capturing Heat II" by the [[Aprovecho Research Center]] suggests that without a skirt the Rocket Stove is only about as efficient as a well-run open fire. With the addition of a skirt that efficiency rises, but is still less than the 40% that is sometimes cited.
 
* '''Efficiency''' The book, "Capturing Heat II" by the [[Aprovecho Research Center]] suggests that without a skirt the Rocket Stove is only about as efficient as a well-run open fire. With the addition of a skirt that efficiency rises, but is still less than the 40% that is sometimes cited.
   
* '''Maintainability''' Tin can stoves that this author has purchased or made have disintegrated due to rust after 3 to 6 months. Its possible to build longer lasting ones by surrounding the internal cans with a mix of sand and clay but of course that means that the stove will have a higher thermal mass resulting in greater fuel usage.
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* '''Maintainability''' Tin can stoves may disintegrated due to rust after 3 to 6 months and the constant heating and cooling of other materials can cause these to break down.
   
 
==Alternatives/Variations==
 
==Alternatives/Variations==
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*The [[Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves]] provides these descriptive summaries of the different fuel-efficient stove technologies currently in use. [http://www.cleancookstoves.org/our-work/the-solutions/cookstove-technology.html GACC datasheet on clean cookstove technology]
   
 
===Sierra Zip Stove===
 
===Sierra Zip Stove===
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===Two-Door Rocket Stove===
 
===Two-Door Rocket Stove===
 
The Two-Door Rocket Stove can burn both wood and charcoal. It saves a lot of both!
 
The Two-Door Rocket Stove can burn both wood and charcoal. It saves a lot of both!
Wood fuels are fed into the big door. The small lower door controls the flow of air into the fire which lowers emissions. When burning charcoal, the big door is closed, and the rate of burn is also controlled by opening and closing the lower door.
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Wood fuels are fed into the big door. The small lower door controls the flow of air into the fire which lowers emissions. When burning charcoal, the big door is closed, and the rate of burn is also controlled by opening and closing the lower door.
   
 
Adding adjustable doors to a Rocket stove allows for control of the air that enters the fire to speed up or slow down the rate of combustion. More air is needed to start a cold fire and to create a hot fire initially. Once the fire is going, the bottom door is partially closed. Limiting the air increases heat transfer to the pot and reduces harmful emissions.
 
Adding adjustable doors to a Rocket stove allows for control of the air that enters the fire to speed up or slow down the rate of combustion. More air is needed to start a cold fire and to create a hot fire initially. Once the fire is going, the bottom door is partially closed. Limiting the air increases heat transfer to the pot and reduces harmful emissions.
The GreenFire Two-Door Rocket stove efficiently uses charcoal to cook food. [[Image:Stovetec1.jpg|right]] Carbon monoxide is reduced when it is burned up in the enclosed space above the fire. Frequently, enough charcoal is made when burning wood so that simmering can be done using only the made charcoal. After boiling food, the big door is closed and air from the lower door keeps the made charcoal burning. The interior grate and dual doors make the GreenFire Two-Door Rocket stove slightly more expensive than the one door stove.
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The popular EcoZoom Versa Two-Door Rocket stove efficiently uses charcoal to cook food. [[Image:Stovetec1.jpg|right]] Carbon monoxide is reduced when it is burned up in the enclosed space above the fire. Frequently, enough charcoal is made when burning wood so that simmering can be done using only the made charcoal. After boiling food, the big door is closed and air from the lower door keeps the made charcoal burning. The interior grate and dual doors make the EcoZoom Versa Two-Door Rocket stove slightly more expensive than the one door EcoZoom Dura stove.
Dimensions: Stove D-11 in H-11 in (Dimensions above are as packed for shipment) Upper Door: W-4 3/4 in H-2 3/8 in Lower Door: W-2 3/8 in H-1 1/8 in
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Dimensions: Stove D-11 in H-11 in (Dimensions above are as packed for shipment) Upper Door: W-4 3/4 in H-2 3/8 in Lower Door: W-2 3/8 in H-1 1/8 in
   
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Rocket stoves are commercially available in some developed countries, and often cross subsidise projects in developing countries.
'''Features:'''
 
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'''Features of EcoZoom Versa rocket cookstove:'''
 
*Insulating, abrasion-resistant combustion chamber
 
*Insulating, abrasion-resistant combustion chamber
 
*Grate to hold both wood and charcoal
 
*Grate to hold both wood and charcoal
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*Wooden and painted steel handle
 
*Wooden and painted steel handle
   
Click [http://www.stovetec.net/us/index.php here] for the StoveTec homepage.
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Click [http://www.ecozoomstove.com here] for the EcoZoom homepage.
   
 
===Wood Pellet Camp and Survival Stove===
 
===Wood Pellet Camp and Survival Stove===
Another new alternative biomass type outdoor cooking stove will be available by summer, 2008 called the Wood Pellet Camp and Survival Stove, from [http://home.att.net/~cleardomesolar/pelletcampstove.html ClearDome Solar Thermal] It is very clean and hot burning, also burns dried bamboo, twigs and branch parts, even peanuts and sunflower seeds! It weighs about 2 pounds and is easy to transport and use. Wood pellets are carbon neutral and very inexpensive- it's a dry fuel product with very little pollution. Unlike other small pellet cook stoves, no fan or external power is needed to generate 1500+ degree F temperatures, hotter than a conventional stove for short cook times. The photo shows the 5" x 7" tall pellet cooker on the beach at sunset.
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Another new alternative biomass type outdoor cooking stove will be available by summer, 2008 called the Wood Pellet Camp and Survival Stove, from [[ClearDome Solar Thermal]] It is very clean and hot burning, also burns dried bamboo, twigs and branch parts, even peanuts and sunflower seeds! It weighs about 2 pounds and is easy to transport and use. Wood pellets are carbon neutral and very inexpensive- it's a dry fuel product with very little pollution. Unlike other small pellet cook stoves, no fan or external power is needed to generate 1500+ degree F temperatures, hotter than a conventional stove for short cook times. The photo shows the 5" x 7" tall pellet cooker on the beach at sunset.
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File:Metal_Rocket_Stove_Granada_2006.JPG|Metal Rocket stove displayed by [[David and Ruth Whitfield]] in Granada in 2006
 
File:Metal_Rocket_Stove_Granada_2006.JPG|Metal Rocket stove displayed by [[David and Ruth Whitfield]] in Granada in 2006
 
File:Sunset-Pelletcooker-1qt-sml.jpg|Wood Pellet Camp/Survival Stove from [[ClearDome Solar Thermal]]
 
File:Sunset-Pelletcooker-1qt-sml.jpg|Wood Pellet Camp/Survival Stove from [[ClearDome Solar Thermal]]
 
File:180px-Improvedfuel9.jpg|[http://www.appropedia.org/CCAT_rocket_stove CCAT demo stove], Humbolt, Ca.
 
File:180px-Improvedfuel9.jpg|[http://www.appropedia.org/CCAT_rocket_stove CCAT demo stove], Humbolt, Ca.
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CEDESOL rockit stoves in Bolivia, 12-21-12.jpg|[[CEDESOL]] [[rocket stove]]s in use in [[Bolivia]] in 2012.
 
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==Recent news and developments==
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*'''January 2014:''' Volunteers for [[Bolivia Inti-Sud Soleil]], Michel Perrin and Jacques Prévost, have recently finished a comparative test of ten various biomass stoves. It can be reviewed here: [[Media:Tests_de_cuiseurs_à_bois_économes.pdf|Tests D'E'Bullition D'eau]]
   
 
==Audio and video==
 
==Audio and video==
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[[File:The "4 Block" Rocket Stove! - DIY Rocket Stove - (Concrete Cinder Block Rocket Stove) - Simple DIY|thumb|none|400px|How to make a "FOUR BLOCK" Rocket Stove! Easy DIY. Four concrete blocks is all it takes to make it!. Cost $5.16. video shows you how to put it together. the stove funnels all its heat up under the bottom of the pan. uses very little fuel. fueled by small sticks, twigs and leaves. cooks great. wind and rain resistant
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[[File:Rocket Stove Ideas 33 - Brick Box Rocket Stove|thumb|none|400px|Pekka Leskela explains how his brick Rocket style stove works and is assembled. ]]
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[[File:Clean Cooking Stoves for Vietnamese farmers - November 2012|thumb|none|400px|[[Vietnam Solar Serve]] has designed their version of a double-wall stove that allows for a secondary burn, which allows for more complete combustion and creates more heat.]]
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|'''How to Make a Tin Can Rocket Stove'''
 
|'''How to Make a Tin Can Rocket Stove'''
 
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|'''How to make a 16 brick rocket stove'''
 
|'''How to make a 16 brick rocket stove'''
 
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|[[File:Rocket stove en vermex (vermiculite expansee)|425px]]
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|'''How to make a rocket stove from vermiculite'''
 
|'''How to make a rocket stove from vermiculite'''
 
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==Articles in the media==
 
==Articles in the media==
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*'''May 2014:''' [http://www.nature.com/news/global-health-deadly-dinners-1.15286 Global health: Deadly dinners] Polluting biomass stoves, used by one-third of the global population, take a terrible toll. But efforts to clean them up are failing - ''Nature''
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*'''April 2013:''' [http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059978953 Study finds improved cookstoves solve one emissions problem, but create another ] - ''E&E Publishing''
 
*'''February 2011: '''[http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/02/post_23.html Aprovecho Research Center's Rocket stoves] This article recognizes the Aprovecho Research Center for 35 years of work on Rocket Stoves, and notes worldwide initiatives to fund and develop fuel efficient stoves. - ''The Oregonian''
 
*'''February 2011: '''[http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/02/post_23.html Aprovecho Research Center's Rocket stoves] This article recognizes the Aprovecho Research Center for 35 years of work on Rocket Stoves, and notes worldwide initiatives to fund and develop fuel efficient stoves. - ''The Oregonian''
 
*'''September 2010: '''[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/science/earth/21stove.html?_r=3&ref=global-home Developing Nations to Get Clean-Burning Stoves] - ''The New York Times''
 
*'''September 2010: '''[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/science/earth/21stove.html?_r=3&ref=global-home Developing Nations to Get Clean-Burning Stoves] - ''The New York Times''
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==See also==
 
==See also==
   
*[[Colgans Island Stoveworks]]
 
 
*[[Media:Estufas_en_imagenes.pdf|Estufas en Imágenes]]
 
*[[Media:Estufas_en_imagenes.pdf|Estufas en Imágenes]]
 
*[[Integrated Cooking Method]]
 
*[[Integrated Cooking Method]]
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==External links==
 
==External links==
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* [http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/ethos/proceedings.php Papers presented at the ETHOS Conferences (2004-2013)]
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* [http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/organizations A long list of organizations (with links) that work with improved biomass cookstoves] - ''[[Aprovecho Research Center]]''
 
*[[Media:Haiti-Possible_Stove_Options_for_Haiti.pdf|Possible Stove Options for Haiti]] A review of the Lucia, Stove Team International, and Stovetec stoves.
 
*[[Media:Haiti-Possible_Stove_Options_for_Haiti.pdf|Possible Stove Options for Haiti]] A review of the Lucia, Stove Team International, and Stovetec stoves.
 
[[Image:Capturing_Heat_-_Aprovecho.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[http://rocketstoves.org/capturing_heat/pdf/capturing_heat.pdf Download this document]]]
 
[[Image:Capturing_Heat_-_Aprovecho.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[http://rocketstoves.org/capturing_heat/pdf/capturing_heat.pdf Download this document]]]
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*[http://www.cleancookstoves.org/our-work/the-solutions/cookstove-technology.html Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves' datasheet on clean cookstove technology]
   
 
Aprovecho site:
 
Aprovecho site:
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*[http://www.rocketstove.org/images/stories/institutional%20stove%20manual%20november%202008.pdf Institutional Rocket Stove Manual]
 
*[http://www.rocketstove.org/images/stories/institutional%20stove%20manual%20november%202008.pdf Institutional Rocket Stove Manual]
 
*[http://www.rocketstove.org/images/stories/design-principles-for-wood-burning-cook-stoves.pdf Design principles for wood-burning stoves], describes in full details the design principles on which all stoves talked about here are based, and compares all common materials for building one. 40 pages.
 
*[http://www.rocketstove.org/images/stories/design-principles-for-wood-burning-cook-stoves.pdf Design principles for wood-burning stoves], describes in full details the design principles on which all stoves talked about here are based, and compares all common materials for building one. 40 pages.
*The [http://www.rocketstove.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=7&Itemid=73 Institutional Rocket Stove Design Tool] allows you to produce detailed designs for three different types of institutional rocket stoves. You specify pot and material dimensions, and the tool generates a custom set of Rocket Stove plans.
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*The [http://www.rocketstove.org/index.php/design-tool-link-from-menu Institutional Rocket Stove Design Tool] allows you to produce detailed designs for three different types of institutional rocket stoves. You specify pot and material dimensions, and the tool generates a custom set of Rocket Stove plans.
 
 
 
*[http://www.appropedia.org/CCAT_rocket_stove Campus Center for Appropriate Technology] (CCAT) demonstration rocket stove, Humboldt State University, California.
 
*[http://www.appropedia.org/CCAT_rocket_stove Campus Center for Appropriate Technology] (CCAT) demonstration rocket stove, Humboldt State University, California.
 
*[http://www.zzstove.com/ Sierra Zip] on zzstove site.
*[http://www.repp.org/discussiongroups/resources/stoves/apro/guide/HOUSEHOLD%20Stoves%20Construction%20Manual%20Nov%202004.pdf How to build an improved household stove], for rocket - Lorena stoves and shielded fire stoves. An Energy Advisory Project from Uganda's ministry of energy and mineral development. 35 pages.
 
*[http://www.zzstove.com/ Sierra Zip] on zzstove site. (deficient link)
 
*[http://home.att.net/~cleardomesolar/pelletcampstove.html New Wood Pellet Camp/Survival Stove] on cleardomesolar site.
 
 
*[http://www.pyroenergen.com/articles08/eco-rocket-stove.htm How to make a simple type of rocket stove] on Pyro-energen site.
 
*[http://www.pyroenergen.com/articles08/eco-rocket-stove.htm How to make a simple type of rocket stove] on Pyro-energen site.
 
*[http://stockstorage.com/ Grover Rocket Stove], Stockstorage selling site.
 
*[http://stockstorage.com/ Grover Rocket Stove], Stockstorage selling site.

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Rocket Stove details

The Rocket Stove is a variety of wood-burning cooking stove. It is easy to construct, with low-cost materials. These are low-mass stoves designed to burn small pieces of wood very efficiently. Cooking is done on top of a short insulated chimney. A skirt around the pot will help hold heat in, increasing the efficiency.

Rocket Stoves use branches, twigs, small wood scraps, or just about any small combustible material. The pieces of wood or other material burn at their tips, increasing combustion efficiency, creating a very hot fire, and eliminating smoke. The low-mass stove body and insulated chimney ensure that the heat goes into the cooking pot, not into the stove. Rocket stoves used in conjunction with hayboxes can save enormous amounts of fuel, cooking complete meals while using very few resources.

A related design, the Rocket Bread Oven, is constructed using two 55 gallon drums, one inside the other. The outer drum is split open to create an insulated chimney space between the two drums and to allow for a doorway. Baking is done inside the inner drum--in a sealed compartment within the chimney, above the firebox.

Rocket Stoves operates roughly twice as efficiently, and substantially more cleanly, than the open fire cooking methods still used in many areas of the world. Furthermore, the design of the stove requires small diameter lengths of wood, which can generally be satisfied with small branches. As such, sufficient fuel for cooking tasks can be gathered in less time, without the benefit of tools, and ideally without the destruction of forested areas.

Because these qualities improve local air quality, and discourage deforestation, the rocket stove has attracted the attention of a number of Appropriate Technology concerns, which have deployed it in numerous third-world locales (notably, the Rwandan refugee camps). This attention has resulted in a number of adaptations intended to improve convenience and safety, and thus the size of the target audience. The Justa Stove, for example, is a cousin of the rocket stove adapted for indoor use and family cooking needs.

Key features

Rocket stove made from barrel in Bolivia

A Rocket stove made from a barrel in Bolivia

The Rocket stove's main components are as follows:

  • Fuel magazine - a short length of steel or ceramic pipe fitted horizontally into the base of the chimney
  • Fuel shelf - holds the fuel clear of the bottom of the magazine to allow air to flow underneath
  • Chimney - a metal box (such as a 5-gallon tin can) or pipe standing vertically and supporting the cooking vessel
  • Heat exchanger - a tubular metal shield that forces hot gases from the chimney to pass over the sides of the cooking vessel

Problems

Overview: Fire based solutions, such as the Rocket Stove, allow cooks to make meals when the sun isn't shining or achieve temperatures that would be difficult without expensive parabolic cookers. However, they do have drawbacks:

  • Pollution When biomass, such as wood, is consumed completely in the burning process, it produces carbon dioxide (C02) and water vapor (H20) alone. However, according to Joel S. Levine of the Atmospheric Sciences Competency NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, '[s]ince complete combustion is not achieved under any conditions of biomass burning, other carbon species, including carbon monoxide (CO), methane (CH4) nonmethane hydrocarbons (NMHCs), and particulate carbon, result through the incomplete combustion of biomass material. In addition, nitrogen and sulfur species are produced from the combustion of nitrogen and sulfur in the biomass material.' Further, it is possibly the most injurious common form of generating heat in terms of particulate emissions and other pollutants.
  • Efficiency The book, "Capturing Heat II" by the Aprovecho Research Center suggests that without a skirt the Rocket Stove is only about as efficient as a well-run open fire. With the addition of a skirt that efficiency rises, but is still less than the 40% that is sometimes cited.
  • Maintainability Tin can stoves may disintegrated due to rust after 3 to 6 months and the constant heating and cooling of other materials can cause these to break down.

Alternatives/Variations

Sierra Zip Stove

An interesting alternative -- at least in the developed world -- is the Sierra Zip stove. By pumping heated air into the combustion chamber quick high temperatures can be achieved with little energy wasted on thermal mass or warm-up time. Ensconced in a cooking system which skirts the cooking vessel, 4 oz of wood will give 2-3 minutes of gas-like cooking.

Two-Door Rocket Stove

The Two-Door Rocket Stove can burn both wood and charcoal. It saves a lot of both! Wood fuels are fed into the big door. The small lower door controls the flow of air into the fire which lowers emissions. When burning charcoal, the big door is closed, and the rate of burn is also controlled by opening and closing the lower door.

Adding adjustable doors to a Rocket stove allows for control of the air that enters the fire to speed up or slow down the rate of combustion. More air is needed to start a cold fire and to create a hot fire initially. Once the fire is going, the bottom door is partially closed. Limiting the air increases heat transfer to the pot and reduces harmful emissions.

The popular EcoZoom Versa Two-Door Rocket stove efficiently uses charcoal to cook food.

Stovetec1

Carbon monoxide is reduced when it is burned up in the enclosed space above the fire. Frequently, enough charcoal is made when burning wood so that simmering can be done using only the made charcoal. After boiling food, the big door is closed and air from the lower door keeps the made charcoal burning. The interior grate and dual doors make the EcoZoom Versa Two-Door Rocket stove slightly more expensive than the one door EcoZoom Dura stove.

Dimensions: Stove D-11 in H-11 in (Dimensions above are as packed for shipment) Upper Door: W-4 3/4 in H-2 3/8 in Lower Door: W-2 3/8 in H-1 1/8 in

Rocket stoves are commercially available in some developed countries, and often cross subsidise projects in developing countries.

Features of EcoZoom Versa rocket cookstove:

  • Insulating, abrasion-resistant combustion chamber
  • Grate to hold both wood and charcoal
  • Two doors with sliding covers
  • Cast iron stove top
  • Stick support
  • Adjustable galvanized steel pot skirt
  • Painted sheet metal body
  • Wooden and painted steel handle

Click here for the EcoZoom homepage.

Wood Pellet Camp and Survival Stove

Another new alternative biomass type outdoor cooking stove will be available by summer, 2008 called the Wood Pellet Camp and Survival Stove, from ClearDome Solar Thermal It is very clean and hot burning, also burns dried bamboo, twigs and branch parts, even peanuts and sunflower seeds! It weighs about 2 pounds and is easy to transport and use. Wood pellets are carbon neutral and very inexpensive- it's a dry fuel product with very little pollution. Unlike other small pellet cook stoves, no fan or external power is needed to generate 1500+ degree F temperatures, hotter than a conventional stove for short cook times. The photo shows the 5" x 7" tall pellet cooker on the beach at sunset.

Recent news and developments

Audio and video

The_"4_Block"_Rocket_Stove!_-_DIY_Rocket_Stove_-_(Concrete_Cinder_Block_Rocket_Stove)_-_Simple_DIY

The "4 Block" Rocket Stove! - DIY Rocket Stove - (Concrete Cinder Block Rocket Stove) - Simple DIY

How to make a "FOUR BLOCK" Rocket Stove! Easy DIY. Four concrete blocks is all it takes to make it!. Cost $5.16. video shows you how to put it together. the stove funnels all its heat up under the bottom of the pan. uses very little fuel. fueled by small sticks, twigs and leaves. cooks great. wind and rain resistant

Rocket_Stove_Ideas_33_-_Brick_Box_Rocket_Stove

Rocket Stove Ideas 33 - Brick Box Rocket Stove

Pekka Leskela explains how his brick Rocket style stove works and is assembled.

Clean_Cooking_Stoves_for_Vietnamese_farmers_-_November_2012

Clean Cooking Stoves for Vietnamese farmers - November 2012

Vietnam Solar Serve has designed their version of a double-wall stove that allows for a secondary burn, which allows for more complete combustion and creates more heat.

How_to_Make_a_Tin_Can_Rocket_Stove How to Make a Tin Can Rocket Stove
How_to_Make_a_16_Brick_Rocket_Stove How to make a 16 brick rocket stove
Rocket_stove_en_vermex_(vermiculite_expansee) How to make a rocket stove from vermiculite

Articles in the media

See also

External links

Capturing Heat - Aprovecho

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