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RocketStove Design Tool Instructions |
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NOTE: The design tool requires the Firefox web browser. The tool uses Java script commands not supported by Internet Explorer or Safari.
You can obtain a free copy of Firefox here .
Please make a suitable donation
for the use of the design tool. The funds generated from your donation
will be used to develop other rocket stove design tools for bread ovens
and household stoves.
This
page will allow you to select from three different types of possible
institutional rocket stoves. The hyperlinks on this page will take you
to a new page where you can input pot and material dimensions. After
entering all of the relevant information, a custom set of Rocket stove
plans will be produced .
The stove options are:
a fixed brick stove
a portable metal stove with circular combustion chamber
a portable metal stove with square combustion chamber
The metal portable stove is ideal if you need to place many institutional rocket stoves over a large geographical area (100 km+). For commercial stove producers especially , the portable metal stove is the ideal choice as the portable stoves can be mass produced at a central location and then delivered to the end user . A centralized production facility also allows commercial producers to maintain much higher levels of quality than with the fixed brick stove.
The brick stove is more
suitable if you plan to only construct a few stoves or many stoves in
a localized geographic area. The brick stove is usually cheaper to
build (depending on the local availability of bricks) and will last
longer than the metal stove. Quality control, however, is more
difficult to maintain with this stove, as each stove built is unique
and subject to ‘the design drift’ of each producer.
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