A zonal model to aid in the design of household biomass cookstoves

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This thesis develops a computational model of a household biomass cookstove for use by the 2.7 billion people currently cooking with biomass in developing countries. This traditional practice results in a number of detrimental effects to health, ecosystems, and global climate, including indoor air pollution, which is responsible for 4 million premature deaths per year and represents the second leading cause of death for women globally. Despite several decades of engineering improved biomass cookstoves, to date there has been relatively little research regarding the computational modeling of such widely used devices. Development of a flexible, comprehensive, computationally inexpensive, and coupled model with detailed experimental validation will allow the design of cookstoves to benefit from the same engineering tools used in design for the developed world. Through investigation of techniques employed in the literature, a flexible steady-state model is developed for a single pot, natur

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