BPSU develops clean cookstove Posted on March 4, 2014 at 1:01 - TopicsExpress



          

BPSU develops clean cookstove Posted on March 4, 2014 at 1:01 am ABUCAY, Bataan — The Bataan Peninsula State University (BPSU) has developed a clean cookstove that responds to the problems of pollution. Engr. Jonathan E. Lacayanga, chairman of research and development of BPSU Abucay, invented the improved vertical fed biomass cookstove that responds to the problems of household air pollution or indoor air pollution. The invented cookstove also reduces smoke emissions inside the kitchen and lower fuel consumption. Lacayanga added that the cookstove he invented is safe, easy to use, durable, and adoptable for different cooking purposes. The cookstove has been recognized by the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC), a United Nations initiative, making BPSU one of the about 430 institutions in the world belonging to the alliance and the first in the Philippines. As member of GACC, BPSU becomes an implementing partner in realizing the vision of the alliance to provide and distribute 100 million clean cookstoves for biomass dependent households worldwide by the year 2020. BPSU Abucay campus Director Herminio Miguel, BPSU faculty member Engr. Walter Valdez, and Reynan Calderon, secretary general of consultancy firm WRJ Agriboize Incorporated collaborated with Lacayanga to develop the cookstove. Lacayanga is the registered inventor of the cookstove at the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines under Department of Trade and Industry. The cookstove has a registered utility model number. According to the World Health Organization 2009 report, 2.5 billion people in over 500 million homes worldwide use dirty and inefficient cookstoves. In developing countries like the Philippines, the use of open fire stove that burn biomass fuel inefficiently are noted to caused hazards to human health, environment, and problems on household energy requirement More than 80 percent households in the Philippines use biomass fuel like wood, corn cobs, coconut shell, animal manure, rice hull, sugarcane bagasse, and other crop residue. •Butch Gunio
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 05:37:37 +0000

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