A Study on the Performance and CO 2
Mitigation Potential of an Advanced
Micro-gasifier Cookstoves
for Sustainable Development
D. Sakthivadivel, P. Ganesh Kumar, G. Praveen Kumar, P. Raman,
Ranko Goic, and S. Iniyan
Abstract Cooking is an essential part of life as food is indispensable for the persistence of human beings. Cooking of food requires heat energy and which can be
met through electric cookstoves and LPG in developed countries. But the developing
countries still depend on the combustion of biomass fuels such as wood, crop residues,
dung cake, charcoal to meet up with their cooking and heating demands. The biomass
is abundantly existing everywhere in the world and can be burnt directly in the cookstoves. Attention has been increased all over the globe in dipping the consumption
of household energy and indoor air pollutants. Advanced micro-gasifier cookstoves
(AMGCS) has been a topic of recent research, but still, 3 billion people cook over
inefficient means of cookstoves though the number of initiatives has been taken
by the government and non-government agencies to encourage the energy-efficient
D. Sakthivadivel (B) · G. Praveen Kumar
School of Mechanical Engineering (SMEC), Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore,
Tamil Nadu, India
e-mail: sakthi2energy@gmail.com
G. Praveen Kumar
e-mail: praveen2energy@gmail.com
P. Ganesh Kumar · S. Iniyan
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
e-mail: selgan.cad@gmail.com
S. Iniyan
e-mail: iniyan777@hotmail.com
P. Raman
The Energy and Resources Institute, Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex,
Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India
e-mail: raman03@gmail.com
R. Goic
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture,
University of Split, Split, Croatia
e-mail: rgoic@fesb.hr
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license
to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
N. Gascoin and E. Balasubramanian (eds.), Innovative Design, Analysis
and Development Practices in Aerospace and Automotive Engineering, Lecture Notes
in Mechanical Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6619-6_13
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Mitigation Potential of an Advanced
Micro-gasifier Cookstoves
for Sustainable Development
D. Sakthivadivel, P. Ganesh Kumar, G. Praveen Kumar, P. Raman,
Ranko Goic, and S. Iniyan
Abstract Cooking is an essential part of life as food is indispensable for the persistence of human beings. Cooking of food requires heat energy and which can be
met through electric cookstoves and LPG in developed countries. But the developing
countries still depend on the combustion of biomass fuels such as wood, crop residues,
dung cake, charcoal to meet up with their cooking and heating demands. The biomass
is abundantly existing everywhere in the world and can be burnt directly in the cookstoves. Attention has been increased all over the globe in dipping the consumption
of household energy and indoor air pollutants. Advanced micro-gasifier cookstoves
(AMGCS) has been a topic of recent research, but still, 3 billion people cook over
inefficient means of cookstoves though the number of initiatives has been taken
by the government and non-government agencies to encourage the energy-efficient
D. Sakthivadivel (B) · G. Praveen Kumar
School of Mechanical Engineering (SMEC), Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore,
Tamil Nadu, India
e-mail: sakthi2energy@gmail.com
G. Praveen Kumar
e-mail: praveen2energy@gmail.com
P. Ganesh Kumar · S. Iniyan
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
e-mail: selgan.cad@gmail.com
S. Iniyan
e-mail: iniyan777@hotmail.com
P. Raman
The Energy and Resources Institute, Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex,
Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India
e-mail: raman03@gmail.com
R. Goic
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture,
University of Split, Split, Croatia
e-mail: rgoic@fesb.hr
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license
to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
N. Gascoin and E. Balasubramanian (eds.), Innovative Design, Analysis
and Development Practices in Aerospace and Automotive Engineering, Lecture Notes
in Mechanical Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6619-6_13
123