Emissions Equipment
“Aprovecho facilitated our early understanding of clean cookstoves, and the PEMS unit we ordered has proved an invaluable R&D tool for the exploration and refinement of our products.”
In 2003, ARC began to investigate how to design and build clean burning stoves. To do this, we needed equipment that would quantify the amounts of smoke and carbon monoxide. The first emissions hood in the lab was a complicated and expensive affair that didn’t always work. Many ARC engineers and researchers have spent years improving the equipment making it more accurate, less expensive, durable, and easier to use. Without the LEMS we would essentially be blind because gases are invisible and small amounts of smoke are impossible to accurately measure by eye. Now researchers all around the world can improve stoves as they make one change after another in prototypes:
Click on the photos of the LEMS, PEMS, and IAP meter below for full descriptions.
The LEMS meets all of the ISO 19867 requirements for a lab that will do testing and improvement of cookstoves. It can be customized for integrated measurements of thermal and fluid properties of combustion. We recommend the LEMS to any serious researcher.
The portable PEMS can be carried to remote locations and serve as a portable laboratory. It can also be configured for household measurements.
The IAP meter takes measurements of CO and PM2.5 near the nose and mouth of the cook to estimate personal exposure.
Extensive training modules are available which cover the science of cookstove measurements and the state of the art of cookstove design. Training can occur at our facility for visiting researchers for extended periods, or at your facility over a two to three week period as part of the laboratory setup package.
Aprovecho will only schedule an in-person training at your facility after you have received virtual training and carried out the installation of the LEMS dilution tunnel, hood, and blower at your facility, and after you have identified, inspected, and properly stored all other equipment sent by Aprovecho. Aprovecho must be introduced to the technicians that will be working in the lab before the in-person training.
The earliest availability for an in-person training at your facility would be one month after you have completed the dilution tunnel, blower, and hood installation, and all other equipment has been inspection and verified by you to be functional, and the laboratory technicians are in place and eager to work in the lab.
Advance payment is required to start manufacturing. The time between advance payment for equipment and export is 8 weeks. Full payment of the inspected and functional equipment must be made before scheduling an in-person training. These terms allow the in-person training to focus on generating high quality stove test data and for the establishment of research projects and partnerships.
