The physical and proximate analysis of the fuel used during cooking was determined. The properties viz., moisture content fixed carbon, volatile matter, ash content was determined and the physical properties like bulk densities, resistance to water penetration and the shatter resistance of agro residue briquettes were determined to know the suitability of fuel for cook stove. The cook stove was fabricated as per designed specifications computed by considering the heat energy requirement of 8076 kcal per batch for the community food cooking with the feed rate of briquettes and the solid wood of kg/h and kg/h, respectively. The stoichiometric air required for the combustion process was worked out so as to ease in combustion of fuel in the cook stove. | Design and economic feasibility of community biomass cook stove 2017 6 2 1145-1162 International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN 2319-7706 Volume 6 Number 2 2017 pp. 1145-1162 Journal homepage http Original Research Article http Design and Economic Feasibility of Community Biomass Cook Stove . Kalbande . Patil and . Khambalkar Department of Unconventional Energy Sources and Electrical Engineering Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth Akola-444 104 Maharashtra India Corresponding author ABSTRACT The physical and proximate analysis of the fuel used during cooking was determined. The properties viz. moisture content fixed carbon volatile matter ash content was determined and the physical properties like bulk densities resistance to water penetration and the shatter resistance of agro residue briquettes were determined to know the suitability of fuel for cook stove. The cook stove was fabricated as per designed specifications computed by considering the heat energy requirement of 8076 kcal per batch for the community food cooking with the feed rate of briquettes and the solid wood of kg h and kg h respectively. The stoichiometric air required for the combustion process was worked out so Keywords as to ease in combustion of fuel in the cook stove. The thermal profile of the cookstove for Design Community the various temperature zones viz. outer temperature flame temperature exhaust air cook stove Air temperature was recorded during the experimentation. The burning rate of the developed requirement Sizing cookstove was worked out for the briquettes and solid wood fuels. The proximate analysis Power rating of the selected fuels like fixed carbon and the heating value showed that fuel selected for Economic. the cookstove was found suitable for combustion. The bulk density of briquette was found more than solid wood therefore it occupied
