Planète Bois aims to transfer recent know how on biomass combustion and valorization of traditional material (lime, lay, sand, straw) for validating low cost and highly efficient stoves for household and small scale industries mainly in rural areas. Develop waste biomass briquettes with adapted PCI for stoves. Other topic concerns bioclimatism with traditional materials for insulation and low cost housing purposes.
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Our Focus
In Cambodia, we validated post-combustion stoves for corn boilers in Phnom Penh streets and recently palm sugar stoves. The next step is to adapt post-combustion stoves (range under 5 kw) for household use (cooking, hot water). Building low cost and comfortable houses with traditional material and natural ventilation is also under conception. In Morocco, we are developing post-combustion community bread ovens and mutli-purpose cookstoves (range under 10 Kw) for space heating, cooking, baking and producing hot water in traditional materials (kit models). We are preparing a concept for low cost rural hammam based on this wood combustion technology and bioclimatism know how. In Mali, we have modified De Montfort medical waste incinerators for better performance and lower costs. This model has been validated by health autorities.
Our Experience And Interest In The Four PCIA Central Focus Areas
We believe on a pragmatic approach by taking lessons learnt from experiences in Asia, building integrated prototypes in the field with local stakeholders (low cost, traditional materials, answering to their expectations, adpated to their needs and fuels), ensuring immediate benefits (no more smoke, reduced fuel use, safer, no heat arround the stove, ease of use, possibility of using large panel of dry waste biomass). We never encounter barriers.
We have proven the benefits of this new technology (saving more than 50% fuel). We are starting dissemination of SSE models (around 100 Euros) by training mason teams for large dissemination towards SSE activities. In our staff, we have experience with large dissemination of stoves like the tha bucket stove which costs around US$ 1 - 4 and saves 25 -30% of fuel in Cambodia (50 000 units by year).
Our models are all designed in relation of their end use, each SSE activity and cooking/heating practice has its own design. So after validating this design, the best approach is to set up local production units of standardized kits which are easy to install for local masons or directly by the owner in a traditional manner.
All our models are designed with chimney, after various tests we validated a very low cost blocks' chimnet with stabilized earth and lime. With post-combustion technology, the frequency of cleaning chimneys is greatly reduced due to the lack of unburnt particles.
Relevant Publications or Studies
We are preparing those documents for publication on website coming soon.
Our Contribution to the Partnership
We are greatly interested to bring our know-how of this high performance wood stoves and bioclimastism design which are built with traditional materials. We are setting up a 'Group of Scientific Interest' for this technology and we are open to support and train students interested in our laboratories in Tarbes and Pau, South of France. Two experts can be sent one on traditional material building (stoves, housing), one on conception of the equipments and technology transfer methodology.
