TY - JOUR
T1 - Design and validation of a Cooking Stoves Thermal Performance Simulator (Cook-STePS) to simulate water heating procedures in selected conditions
AU - Lombardi, Francesco
AU - Colombo, Luigi
AU - Colombo, Emanuela
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Laboratory protocols based on water heating procedures represent the most widespread tool for the evaluation of Improved Cooking Stoves (ICSs) thermal performance. Nevertheless, the performance of the cooking system can vary substantially when the boundary conditions – ambient conditions, burn sequence – differ from those experienced in a specific lab. Consequently, we developed and experimentally validated a Cooking Stoves Thermal Performance Simulator (Cook-STePS), based on a 1-D heat and mass transfer model and implemented in an Excel® and VBA environment, in order to provide additional information about how the performance of a cooking system would change, in selected conditions, as compared to the baseline laboratory performance. The study shows how the tool can be effectively applied to a generic cooking system through a two-steps procedure, based on (i) a preliminary set of experimental tests in controlled conditions and (ii) the simulation of performance in the desired conditions.
AB - Laboratory protocols based on water heating procedures represent the most widespread tool for the evaluation of Improved Cooking Stoves (ICSs) thermal performance. Nevertheless, the performance of the cooking system can vary substantially when the boundary conditions – ambient conditions, burn sequence – differ from those experienced in a specific lab. Consequently, we developed and experimentally validated a Cooking Stoves Thermal Performance Simulator (Cook-STePS), based on a 1-D heat and mass transfer model and implemented in an Excel® and VBA environment, in order to provide additional information about how the performance of a cooking system would change, in selected conditions, as compared to the baseline laboratory performance. The study shows how the tool can be effectively applied to a generic cooking system through a two-steps procedure, based on (i) a preliminary set of experimental tests in controlled conditions and (ii) the simulation of performance in the desired conditions.
KW - Cookstove
KW - Heat transfer
KW - Improved cooking stove
KW - Performance
KW - Simulation
KW - Thermodynamic model
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85034770687&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.energy.2017.11.045
DO - 10.1016/j.energy.2017.11.045
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85034770687
SN - 0360-5442
VL - 141
SP - 1384
EP - 1392
JO - Energy
JF - Energy
ER -