Design and Performance Analysis of Biomass Cook stove with Thermoelectric Generator

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to design and evaluate the performance of an energy efficient biomass combustion store fitted with thermoelectric generator to produce both thermal energy and electrical energy from a single fuel source. The combustion chamber in the stove is designed in a way to utilize the primary and secondary air to provide complete combustion by not using any external source such as blower. Due to complete combustion process the stove never produces smoke which causes asthma and other respiratory diseases for women and children. The cook stove is fitted with a light and electric charger arrangement. This stove can be used in rural and hilly regions for producing thermal, light and electrical energy. The new design in the cook stove have been made for the better usage of sustainable energy and reducing worst impact of climate change on environment. Biomass cook stove is a combustion device which liberates a lot of lot of thermal process during cooking process. In the newly developed TEG biomass cook stove the liberated waste heat energy is utilized for the generation of electricity with the help of thermoelectric generator and the electrical energy is stored in a li-ion battery which is used for lighting a led light and charging a mobile phone. Water boiling test which ic used to measure the performance of cook stove was carried out in this stove and the stove is found to be efficient in the conversion of biomass fuel into thermal and electrical energy. This cook stove has been deployed in the rural areas to check its usability, viability, electrical and thermal performance under the umbrella of clean combustion.