Authors : Aashish Umakant Gandigude and Madhva V. Nagarhalli
Abstract: Cooking in areas with restricted electricity supply where the solely available fuel is wood has become a challenge. More people are recorded every day with respiratory disorders in large part due to smoke-producing carbon monoxide (CO), complex issues (PM) and other extremely hazardous compounds caused by improper combustion in the simplest fuelwood stoves. Hence an efficient, hot burning Rocket Stove has been deployed with fabric filters in the earlier days. However, the rocket stoves with fabric filter remove the PM content that is also in a small amount meanwhile considering CO, CO2 and other toxins remain the same in the emitted gas/smoke. To tackle these pollution issues, the proposed work innovates a Bi-folded Colander Framework which combines a Knapsack filter and simulated Carbon with a Cellulose Nanofiber filter to purify the exhaust gas/smoke. It is highly sensitive to filter the nanoparticles as well as the toxic compounds that exist in the exhaust smoke. Thus, our proposed methodology effectively reduces the pollutions with the novel framework and enhances the fuel efficiency of the rocket stove.
Aashish Umakant Gandigude and Madhva V. Nagarhalli, 2020. Systematic and Robust Air Cleanser for Cleaning Pollution Caused by the Rocket Stove. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 15: 3805-3823.