Improved cookstove as an appropriate technology for the Logone Valley (Chad – Cameroon): Analysis of fuel and cost savings

• Published in: Renewable energy Vol. 47; pp. 45 - 54
• Main Authors: Vaccari, Mentore, Vitali, Francesco, Mazzù, Angelo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.11.2012; Elsevier
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Appropriate technologies; boiling; Cameroon; Chad; Controlled cooking test; cooking; cost effectiveness; Developing Countries; Economic data; Energy; energy costs; Energy economics; Energy efficiency; Energy. Thermal use of fuels; Equipments for energy generation and conversion: thermal, electrical, mechanical energy, etc; Exact sciences and technology; fuelwood; Furnaces. Firing chambers. Burners; General, economic and professional studies; Improved stove; international cooperation; Natural energy; people; rural areas; Solid and pulverized fuel burners and combustion chambers; Water boiling test; Chad; Cameroon; Africa; Controlled cooking test; Developing Countries; Energy efficiency; Water boiling test; Appropriate technologies; Improved stove

Access to modern energy services is still low in developing countries and this lack of access affects in particular the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and sub-Saharan Africa. The large majority of population in the Logone Valley at the border between Chad and Cameroon still relies on wood fuel bur...