Print Email Facebook Twitter Comparing Performance of Biomass Gasifier Stoves: Influence of a Multi-Context Approach Title Comparing Performance of Biomass Gasifier Stoves: Influence of a Multi-Context Approach Author Kersten, W.C. (TU Delft Design for Sustainability) Hong Long, N. (TU Delft Design for Sustainability) Diehl, J.C. (TU Delft Design for Sustainability) Crul, M.R.M. (TU Delft Design for Sustainability; NHL University of Applied Sciences) van Engelen, J.M.L. (TU Delft Design for Sustainability; Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) Date 2017 Abstract Millions of people worldwide die prematurely or suffer from severe health ailments due to cooking equipment that causes unhealthy doses of (household) air pollution. Many attempts to address this have fallen short because technology was not improved sufficiently or the way it was introduced constituted an ill fit with the broader “cooking eco-system”. In terms of technology, (biomass) gasifier stoves look promising on all three sustainability dimensions (people, planet, profit) but have not been adopted on a substantial scale across cultures and regions either. We therefore used a design approach that takes multiple contexts (target groups) into account and compared the performance of a gasifier stove that was developed following this multi-context approach with four previous gasifier versions. With the comparative assessment using criteria well beyond mere technological performance we found that it performed better than these versions as well as than what could be expected based on historical learning, while providing additional systemic advantages. These results encourage verification of the value of the multi-context approach in more settings while providing clues for refinement of the assessment method. Subject biomass gasifier stovesclean cookingperformancecontext variationAssessmentOA-Fund TU Delft To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:571d116a-1dc1-4eda-b5eb-777079107dc8 DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/su9071140 ISSN 2071-1050 Source Sustainability, 9 (7) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2017 W.C. Kersten, N. Hong Long, J.C. Diehl, M.R.M. Crul, J.M.L. van Engelen Files PDF sustainability_09_01140.pdf 901.93 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:571d116a-1dc1-4eda-b5eb-777079107dc8/datastream/OBJ/view