GIZ HERA Cooking Energy Compendium

This is 'work in progress': Until mid 2011 the compendium will be revised.

Basics about Cooking Energy

• Facts on Cooking Energy
  
• Frequently Asked Questions

Policy Advise on Cooking Energy

• Background - Cooking Energy Crisis
• Policy Challenges in the Woodfuel Sector
  
• Assessing Woodfuel Supply Potentials
  
• Cooking Energy Intervention Strategies 

Designing and Implementing Cooking Energy Interventions

Scoping and Inception Studies for Cooking Energy Interventions 

• Scoping Cooking Energy Systems
• Inception Studies for ICS opportunities 
• Inception Studies for Biomass Energy Supply Opportunities

• Carbon Funding for cookstoves
  

Designing and implementing ICS Supply Interventions

• Enhancing Production of ICS siehe alter links: (2.2 Production of Woodfuel Stoves und Intervention A: Introduction)
  (Product devolpment, production and marketing systems (incl. trainers)
• Commercialisation of Cookstoves
• Creation of Public Awareness
• User Training
• Financing Mechanisms for Cookstove Dissemination
• Quality Assurance of ICS
  national standards
• Scaling-up Strategies
• Result Based Monitoring
  outcome monitoring, impact assessment, methodology
• Sustainability of Cookstoves
  sustainability assessment, exit

Designing and implementing Woodfuel Supply Intervention

• Woodfuel Production Options
• Charcoal Production
  

Cooking Energy Technologies and Practices

• Global stove diversity

Cooking with Woodfuels (Firewood and Charcoal)

One of the characteristics of humankind is the ability to control fire and utilise it to prepare food. The oldest cooking fuel is firewood in the form of logs and branches from trees. Charcoal is the fuel derived from wood by pyrolysis in the process of carbonisation: the wood looses the volatile contents and the lighter yet energy-dense char remains. Due to the ease of transport and use, charcoal has become a prevalent cooking fuel in many urban areas of this planet, while firewood is more prevalent in rural areas.

As firewood and charcoal have very different burning properties they need different devices (stoves) for cooking. This section deals with both fuel-types seperately. Other types of biomass feature in the next chapter

• Cooking with Firewood
  woodfuel stove types (HH, SME, SI)
  
• Cooking with Charcoal
  Stoves designed to burn carbonised biomass
• Cooking Practices for Woodfuel Users
  fuel management, stove usage
• Testing of Woodfuel Stoves

Cooking with other Biomass Fuels

Not all biomass comes in the form of logs and thicker branches of trees, that have been used as cooking fuel since humans learned how to prepare food with the help of a domesticated fire. The efficient and clean use of other types of biomass as fuels requires some preparation, processing and refining of the fuel. Some fuel types need specific set-ups and burners to combust well and generate heat that is useful for cooking. Thus, this section is structured by the types of fuels, including the devices needed for cooking with each fuel.

• Cooking with Other Biomass Fuels (1. dung 2. unprocessed residues 3. processed fuels)
• Cooking with Liquid Biomass Fuels (1. alcohol fuels methanol, ethanol 2. plant oil)  
• Cooking with Gas from Biomass  (1. biogas 2. woodgas)

Cooking with Nonbiomass Fuels

• Cooking with Sun
• Cooking with Fossil Fuels (1. kerosin, 2. fossil gas, 3.coal)

General Cooking Practices

• Kitchen Management (1. General practices, 2. Use of devices (pressure cookers, fireless cookers))