Modeling temperature in Nepalese dwellings heated by improved stoves
Inefficient, unimproved cookstoves and open cooking fires are the cause of considerable respiratory distress and firewood depletion. In developing countries with significant heating needs, such as Nepal, smoke inhalation and firewood depletion result in poorer health outcomes for individuals, as well as decreased environmental health.
Using Newton's Law of Cooling and assuming that ambient temperature could be modeled by a sine wave function, I modeled the temperature in a traditional stone dwelling in Ghorepani, Nepal, heated by a scaled-up PekoPe African inverted downdraft gasifier, a type of improved, batch-loading stove that can burn firewood, animal dung, or crop waste with up to 90 percent less smoke than traditional cooking and heating methods.
PowerPoint presentation with more about these stoves
Modeling temperature in traditional Nepalese dwellings heated by inverted downdraft gasifiers
Using Newton's Law of Cooling and assuming that ambient temperature could be modeled by a sine wave function, I modeled the temperature in a traditional stone dwelling in Ghorepani, Nepal, heated by a scaled-up PekoPe African inverted downdraft gasifier, a type of improved, batch-loading stove that can burn firewood, animal dung, or crop waste with up to 90 percent less smoke than traditional cooking and heating methods.
PowerPoint presentation with more about these stoves
Modeling temperature in traditional Nepalese dwellings heated by inverted downdraft gasifiers