DEVELOPMENT OF THE BIOMASS STOVE WITH AN AIR CONVECTION FOR HOUSEHOLD USING IN RURAL AREA

The energy crisis can be solved by the substitution energy from biomass that can easily be found around the rural area which surrounded the small and medium city. To convert the inner energy of biomass, we need a stuff that called a biomass stove. It can burn the unused biological material such as straw, leaves, twigs, wood, and rice husk and gives heat which can be used to household usage. The problem for burning the biomass is not simple to use and complicated in preparing the existing stove. This paper tries to develop the new biomass stove that has a good performance of thermal efficiency. Theoretically it can be achieved by increasing the supply of oxygen into the burning chamber. The stove is also easy to build by using the simple design and used the oil sheet metal drum that can easily be found. The performance of the stove is measured by Water Boiling Testing (WTB). The result shows that the stove has a moderate thermal efficiency performance (26.88%) and easy to use as long as the air supply is available.