Experimental study on multifunctional biomass cooking stove

This paper presents the performance enhancement of multifunctional cooking stove with thermal energy storage. The stove consists of cooking pot and thermoelectric generator attached on wall the stove with thermal storage unit on the hot side. An experimental is conducted and found the efficiency of the biomass stove as 20% and combined mode 50%. It is concluded that the proposed system can be used as standalone power generation system to meet power demands at isolated rural house and it will reduce the burden to conventional grid suppliers.