Country:
Nepal
Volume & Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2021
Page No:
808-810
Abstract:
Metallic Improved Cooking Stoves (MICS) are frequently used for cooking and space heating purposes in high altitude. Modification of design to increase its thermal efficiency keeps importance economically, socially and environmentally. Alternative Energy Promotion Center (AEPC) standard 2-pot MICS model has been evaluated and modified with thermal efficiency view point. Several stove configurations has been tested in the laboratory. Rectangular shape of the existing stove has been modified to a suitable curved shape to increase heat transfer and to enable stack effect in stove. Thermal efficiency has been decreased during opening of door of MICS in an average 3%. Thermal efficiency has been increased during modification of MICS by 4%.
