Development and Test Performance of a Three-Burner Wood-Fired Stove

A three-burner wood stove has been designed, constructed and its performance characteristics tested by computing the percentages of wood consumed and the quantity of heat utilized when three pots containing water were heated simultaneously in the three cooking compartments respectively. The result shows that the percentages of wood consumed and the heat energy used were 72.5% and 33.6% respectively. These indicate an improvement on the previous work, which gave the percentages of wood consumed and heat energy utilized to be respectively 61.8% and 10.4% for three-stone wood stove and 79.8% and 19.8% for a two-hole stove. Also the central heating compartment received more heat energy (465.4 KJ) than the side ones (336.3 KJ and 298.2 KJ) after 36 minutes so that the user could discriminate on their application with respect to the heat requirements of what is being cooked