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1 An Improved Wood Cookstove: Harnessing Fan Driven Forced Draft for Cleaner Combustion
Mark Witt
May 2005
5224 1.156461 02.08.2009 01.10.2010
2 Capturing Heat Three: Heating Stoves
September 13, 2004
4027 1.447063 10.12.2009 07.07.2011
3 Capturing Heat Two: Part 1-Pizza Oven and Stoves With Chimneys
Dean Still, Mike Hatfield, Peter Scott
7099 2.576606 03.11.2009 03.11.2009
4 Capturing Heat Two: Part 2-Simple Water Heaters
Dean Still, Mike Hatfield, Peter Scott
7226 2.024824 03.11.2009 03.11.2009
5 Capturing HEAT: Five Earth-Friendly Cooking Technologies and How to Build Them
Dean Still and Jim Kness; Aprovecho Research Center: Illustrations by Loki Quinnangeles, Cathy White, Shon Lenzo, Lynn Forbes, Amelia Ettinger
7671 1.070925 03.11.2009 03.11.2009
6 Cooking With Less Fuel: Breathing Less Smoke
Aprovecho Research Center
World Food Programme, School Feeding Service (PDPF)
Partnership for Clean Indoor Air
Shell Foundation
5394 1.520454 03.11.2009 03.11.2009
7 Design Principles for Wood Burning Cook Stoves
Aprovecho Research Center, Partnership for Clean Indoor Air, Shell Foundation
June 2005
9199 1.064709 02.08.2009 01.10.2010
8 Designing a Clean-Burning, High-Efficiency, Dung-Burning Stove: Lessons in cooking with cow patties. (pdf)
Mark Witt, Kristina Weyer, and David Manning
February 2006
4380 2.486255 02.08.2009 01.10.2010
9 Designing Improved Wood Burning Heating Stoves
Dean Still
October 2005
41622 2.258519 02.08.2009 01.10.2010
10 Designing Improved Wood Burning Heating Stoves
Dr. Mark Bryden, Dean Still, Damon Ogle, Nordica MacCarty
2992 2.630475 03.11.2009 03.11.2009
11 Designing Vernacular Cooking Stoves
A Quick Summary for the Shell Foundation
Discussions
Dean Still-September 2001
2318 1.034883 02.08.2009 02.08.2009
12 Development of a Tobacco Rocket Barn for Small Holder Farmers in Malawi
Peter Scott
January 2006
A collaboration of ProBEC/GTZ, Limbe Leaf, and Aprovecho
1517 2.35606 02.08.2009 01.10.2010
13 He made a cheap stove for a reason
Boston Globe
June 2005
1502 0.33122 02.08.2009 01.10.2010
14 HELPS International Rocket Stove
March 2002
1612 1.985393 02.08.2009 02.08.2009
15 How to Build the Improved Household Stoves
Peter Scott
July 2005
A construction guide for the Rocket - Lorena and Shielded Fire Stoves, Energy Advisory Project, GTZ, Uganda Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development
2043 1.566426 02.08.2009 01.10.2010
16 Initial Improvement of a Charcoal Burning Rocket Stove
Dean Still
June 2006
1193 0.211003 02.08.2009 01.10.2010
17 Institutional Barrel Stoves in Northern Uganda: Theory vs. Reality
Damon Ogle
March 2007
1905 0.298401 29.07.2009 01.10.2010
18 Institutional Rocket Stove
Dr. Larry Winiarski
February 2006
3306 0.678493 02.08.2009 01.10.2010
19 Institutional Stove Gap Calculator
Excel spreadsheet companion to the 8-part video on how to construct a 60-liter institutional rocket stove.
Damon Ogle, Oct 2008
2031 0.019456 29.12.2009 29.12.2009
20 Instructions for Building a VITA Stove
Samuel F. Baldwin and Dean Still
1987, 2005
1492 0.935811 02.08.2009 01.10.2010
21 Introduction of Rocket Stove Cooking Devices in Uganda
Peter Scott
September 2003
966 1.473237 02.08.2009 01.10.2010
22 Kilns and Brick Making: A Rough Draft
Ken Goyer
March 2006
11875 2.261219 02.08.2009 01.10.2010
23 Lanny's Rocket Wok
January 2002
1142 0.871854 02.08.2009 02.08.2009
24 Lesotho: Nkokonono Stove
Peter Scott, Aprovecho/PROBEC
October 2003
919 0.966825 02.08.2009 01.10.2010
25 Lesotho: Nokoko Household Stove and Bread Oven
Peter Scott, Aprovecho/GTZ
November 2003
1344 1.746434 02.08.2009 01.10.2010
26 Making insulative clay combustion chambers
Dean Still-March 2003
3010 0.830379 02.08.2009 23.10.2009
27 Mud Stoves
Aprovecho and PCIA
April 2005
1111 0.326368 02.08.2009 01.10.2010
28 New Lorena Stove Design in Mexico
Dean Still, Jeremy Foster-March 2003
1332 0.292932 02.08.2009 02.08.2009
29 New Rocket Stove Design from Uganda
Peter Scott
July 2005
HHRS Quickie
1553 0.364033 02.08.2009 01.10.2010
30 Prototype Ecuadorian Earthen Stove
June 2002
1054 0.350884 02.08.2009 02.08.2009
31 Rice Husk Stove Update
Title: Simplified Design of the Batch-Type Rice Husk Gas Stove
Authors: Alexis Belonio & Edward Ligisan
Date: June 2011
2472 0.418343 20.06.2011 20.06.2011
32 Rocket Griddle Stove
Dean Still-April 2001
1194 0.2044 02.08.2009 02.08.2009
33 Rocket Lantern
Dean Still
June 2003
1384 0.275504 02.08.2009 01.10.2010
34 Rocket stove made from pumice
Dean Still-March 2001
1037 0.524436 02.08.2009 02.08.2009
35 Rocket Stove User Guide
1409 0.039742 02.08.2009 02.08.2009
36 Rocket Stove with Fan Prototype
Dean Still
May 2006
1576 0.071812 02.08.2009 01.10.2010
37 Rocket Style Uganda Stove
April 2002
930 0.235081 02.08.2009 02.08.2009
38 Simple Plans for the Aprovecho Double Burner Rocket Stove
Peter Scott
2703 0.41633 02.08.2009 02.08.2009
39 Simple Plans for the Sunken Pot Aprovecho Stove
Peter Scott-Jan 2003
1324 0.769895 02.08.2009 02.08.2009
40 Simple Plans to Build the Justa Stove
Peter Scott
5496 1.219171 02.08.2009 02.08.2009
41 South Africa Two Sunken Pot Rocket Stove With Oven
June 2002
1236 1.463851 02.08.2009 02.08.2009
42 Tadooba lamp modification instructions
Simple instructions for increasing light & decreasing emissions from Ugandan tadooba kerosene lamps. Now with preliminary PEMS results.
Ed Wheeler, Kelley Grabow
Updated December 22, 2011
384 2.986496 09.12.2011 22.12.2011
43 Ten Stove Design Principles (poster)
Dr. Larry Winiarski and Dean Still
October 2005
3721 0.114339 02.08.2009 01.10.2010
44 The Sprocket Rocket (.doc with links)
Ken Goyer
June 2006
Word document with links to web site with larger images
1283 0.172544 02.08.2009 01.10.2010
45 The Sprocket Rocket (.pdf)
Ken Goyer
June 2006
PDF version
2321 0.591133 02.08.2009 01.10.2010
46 The Winiarski Wood Fired Agricultural Food Dryer
Schematics of a large food dryer are given. Test results showing design methods and even temperatures over the drying volume are given.

Dean Still, Jonathan Pilch, Mona Cancino
889 7.385517 16.11.2010 16.11.2010
47 Wood Fired Cacao Dryer in Nicaragua
March 2002
1082 1.401837 02.08.2009 02.08.2009