Research Article
Performance Characteristics of a Cooking Stove Improved with Sawdust as an Insulation Material
Table 4
Thermal efficiency (%) of the fire stove using the selected biomass fuels.
| Biomass fuel | Cold start | Hot start | Simmer |
| Senna spectabilis | 35.5 ± 2.5 | 35.0 ± 2.6 | 23.8 ± 1.2 | Pinus caribaea | 19.3 ± 1.2 | 22.0 ± 1.0 | 34.3 ± 1.5 | Eucalyptus grandis | 25.7 ± 1.7 | 29.0 ± 2.0 | 29.7 ± 1.5 |
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