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    This document describes the design and construction of improved rocket stoves for school cafeterias in Haiti. Photos show the construction process, which includes a firebrick firebox and insulating layers of concrete or refractory materials to improve efficiency. The new stoves were put into action providing lunches with less smoke and fuel needs than the traditional three-stone fires.

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    This document describes the design and construction of improved rocket stoves for school cafeterias in Haiti. Photos show the construction process, which includes a firebrick firebox and insulating layers of concrete or refractory materials to improve efficiency. The new stoves were put into action providing lunches with less smoke and fuel needs than the traditional three-stone fires.

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    This document describes the design and construction of improved rocket stoves for school cafeterias in Haiti. Photos show the construction process, which includes a firebrick firebox and insulating layers of concrete or refractory materials to improve efficiency. The new stoves were put into action providing lunches with less smoke and fuel needs than the traditional three-stone fires.

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    Haiti rocket stoves

    Bob Fairchild
    solarbobky@yahoo.com
    ETHOS 2012

    School cafeteria kitchen

    School cafeteria stoves

    Three stone school cafeteria


    stoves

    Crude rocket prototype


    Firebox and throat of firebrick and insulating firebrick.
    Cement and vermiculite mortar for insulating shell.

    Concrete fill

    Looking into firebox

    Rotary skirt template layout

    Forming the skirt

    Finished

    With
    cookpot

    Improved school rocket


    workshop

    The hard
    core

    Hard firebrick floor, back wall,


    and pot supports
    Insulating firebrick firebox and
    throat

    Insulating layer
    form

    Split 30 gallon drum with


    hinges. Pull hinge pins to split
    form for removal

    Ready for insulating layer

    Insulating layer
    cement and perlite concrete

    With insulating castable refractory skirt

    Proud masons

    New stoves
    in action

    Lunch time!

    Household rocket hard core

    Wired, wedged and ready to


    pour

    Insulating
    layer

    Cement and
    perlite

    Skirt form layout

    Insulating castable refactory


    skirt

    With pot and


    channel

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