U.S. DOE Grantee Updates: Advancing Cookstove Research and Design (Two Part Series)

On February 22nd and 24th, 2016 Winrock International and the U.S. EPA hosted a two part webinar series titled "U.S. DOE Grantee Update: Advancing Biomass Cookstove Research and Design”. As part of the U.S. Government support for the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, the U.S. Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) awarded $10 million in grants for research aimed at addressing technical barriers to the development of low emission, high efficiency cookstoves through activities in areas such as combustion, heat transfer and materials development. Each project falls into at least one of the following four categories: developing low cost, durable stoves that achieve stringent efficiency and emissions goals; understanding the engineering science for advanced stoves; identifying stove designs to meet local cooking needs, and; identifying the nuances of successful stove dissemination and field performance. During the webinars presenters from each project provided an overview of their project and shared preliminary findings and results, following an introduction and overview by DOE’s Elliott Levine each day.

Part 1, February 22nd, 2016

• Elliott Levine, U.S. Department of Energy
• Dean Still, Aprovecho Research Center*
• Jonathan Posner, University of Washington (UW)
• David Stokes, RTI International
• Ryan Gist, BioLite

You can view the full recording of Part 1 HERE. Questions and Answers from the webinar are available in PDF format below. The presentation slides can be found HERE.

*Click HERE to download Aprovecho Research Center's new book "Clean Burning Biomass Cookstoves".

Part 2, February 24th, 2016

• Elliott Levine, U.S. Department of Energy
• Vi Rapp, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
• Mike Brady, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
• Jessica Tryner, Colorado State University (CSU)
• Charity Garland, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group

You can view the full recording of Part 2 HERE. Questions and Answers from the webinar are available in PDF format below. The presentation slides can be found HERE.