GIZ HERA Cooking Energy Compendium

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

Preface

Basics about Cooking Energy

Policy Advise on Cooking Energy

Designing and Implementing Cooking Energy Interventions

Scoping and Inception Studies for Cooking Energy Interventions 

Designing and implementing ICS Supply Interventions

Designing and implementing Woodfuel Supply Intervention

Cooking Energy Technologies and Practices

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 other Biomass Fuels. (link reinsetzen)

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 Nonbiomass Fuels

General Cooking Practices

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

Extra/ Bonus tracks

Cooking Energy in Refugee Situations

Space Heating with Stoves

Glossary

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