tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43015089280308202922024-02-19T08:48:47.400-08:00For Clean Cooking Solution in NepalUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301508928030820292.post-5284299689375891492016-10-18T22:29:00.001-07:002016-10-18T22:32:38.701-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301508928030820292.post-33841258761920259782016-10-18T22:29:00.000-07:002016-10-18T22:58:05.941-07:00Regional Testing and Knowledge Centre (RTKC), Nepal updates in 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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RTKC has been implementing research projects and involved in standardization of the technology this year 2016. It’s current involvements include: </div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">RTKC’s Capacity Development activities through Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves 2nd phase grants are completed. The quality Assurance plan for testing centers has been developed and RTKC has enhanced service menu with Black Carbon monitoring along with calibration of the sensors using the cal gas mixing chamber.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">USEPA funded Global Map of Faceable Residential Solutions, Emphasizing Stoves with Space Heating Uses – Nepal Section with objective to study the fuel consumption and emission patterns over the seasons in the hilly regions of Nepal executed by University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The four seasons field monitoring has been over with the final/summer season monitoring done during April 2016. Documentation and knowledge product development has been going on.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">The World Bank Funded Product Development and Labelling of clean cook stoves and fuels in the Nepalese Market through its DISC initiative in coordination with Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) with basic aim to promote standardization and labelling of clean cooking and heating stoves and fuels with added options. The first phase with basic understanding of cook stoves sector in Nepal has come to an end and second phase involving product development and labelling has been going on.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">RTKC developed its first business plan with support from I-Dev International and Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves for its sustainability which has been into practice as the guiding document for business operations with RTKC services.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">RTKC has been supporting national and International initiatives on standardizations of clean cookstoves through various involvements such as participating in conversations and building consensus along with expertise service as a member of ISO TC 285: Clean Cook stoves and Clean Cooking Solutions. It is also the member of Nepal National Mirror Committee and advocating and supporting the formation of Nepal Interim Benchmarks on Cook stoves (NIBC 2014) and its revision currently taking place based on stakeholders needs.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">RTKC has been providing enhanced research and development services to the national and International clients. This year RTKC’s service was entertained by Filament Engineering Pvt. (For Muspana stoves) from Dhaka Bangladesh, Pure Flame Cookstoves (for Ganesha Stoves) from Colorado Boulder USA. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Prof. Tami C Bond, the director of CACHE at University of Illinois visited CRT/N and also some remote households along the Kathmandu Rasuwa highway to observe the energy use situation.</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301508928030820292.post-87955668079309579112014-11-18T02:16:00.001-08:002014-11-18T02:16:37.787-08:00Summary of ICS Regional Knowledge Sharing Workshop 18-20 August 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Workshop, 18-20 August 2014 at Hotel Himalaya, Kathmandu Nepal has been one
important intervention in bringing together the south Asian Cookstoves testers
and related stakeholders to discuss on the issues of biomass cookstoves testing
and setting up the ground for the outline of the ISO TC 285 Field Testing
Guidance Document (Working Group III). It was participated by about 13 expert
delegates from the region and about 45 from Nepal. The first day
inauguration and policy session in general was participated by over 80
participants specially the people from related ministries of Government
of Nepal and associated stakeholders including colleagues from RTKCs from
China, India, Cambodia and invitees from Bhutan, The World Bank
representatives, Clean Energy Development Bank, GIZ among others organization
in Nepal. The remaining two days were with the specific testing centers and
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<span style="font-family: "Futura Std Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Nepalese policy makers on the
first day - inauguration session spoke about the context and its importance
especially in Nepal with their commitments for providing friendly environments
regarding ICS promotions by generating national and international
cooperation’s. The need for updated, firsthand data availability on ICS and
related Indoor Air pollution was highly emphasized and was committed by Nepal
Planning commission Vice Chair Prof. Dr. Govind Raj Pokhrel (chief guest of the
event) to incorporate these issues seriously in the upcoming plans. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Futura Std Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The second session, the policy
session was related to understanding the ICS and standardization
policies/practices of China, India and Nepal. The success and failures of some
policies in India, Nepal and China were highlighted with updates on the status
of their existing policies/testing standard activities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Futura Std Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">It was then followed by the panel
discussion on “Development Partner’s Perspectives on ICS Programmes and ICS
Testing Issues”. Panel Consisted of the representatives of The World bank, USA,
UNDP Bhutan, SNV Nepal, ENERGIA The Neatherlands and SE4ALL UNDP Nepal.
The discussion was based on the pre-framed questions such as: the</span><span lang="EN-SG" style="font-family: "Futura Std Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-SG;"> organization's definition of program effectiveness;
main criteria in choosing stoves for the program; What priority is given to
tested stoves and which metrics do they use.. (efficiency, air quality…);
perception on user acceptance through stove testing results.. If laboratory
performance was significantly different from field performance, would that make
a difference to the program's decisions.. etc.. The overall impression was that
there is still lack of well-coordinated evaluation modalities for the
cookstoves programmes and need to have one that addresses the needs of all the
players – donors, ground users, implementers, policy people etc. Different
Organizations has their own way of evaluating effectiveness while the test
methods and results have not been considered seriously.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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RTKCs (Nepal, India, China, Cambodia) – purposes/methods/results/ relationship
with ISO IWA/ How do they support National Policies.. were some of the topics
of presentations and discussions. </span><span style="font-family: "Futura Std Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Role of key parameters and standard
units for evaluation of biomass cookstoves was presented along with Nepal
Benchmarks of Clean Cookstoves were also presented on the same session. The
testing experiences from the RTKC’s depicted the importance of Quality
Assurance as one of the important aspect that has not yet been taken care
seriously. Both the lab tests and field test are essential for the cookstoves
programmes as well as Research and Development of technology, but there should
be a mechanism to link up field test and lab test results. Question of
durability testing was unanswered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Futura Std Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The late afternoon session dealt with
</span><span lang="EN-SG" style="font-family: "Futura Std Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-SG;">Group Breakouts into five, each with 7-10 people to
discussion on Integrating Stakeholders Perspectives on National Policy
Framework. Each group contained development partners, RTKC representatives,
policy makers. Each came up with certain issues to share as an outcome of their
discussions at the end. The overall impression of the group discussion was that
every programmes are to compliment national policies while there still exists
gaps in between the international programmes and national policies specially in
Nepal. National Policies needs more reviews to make it flexible to the
private sectors. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Futura Std Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Day two Sessions were based on
the field testing issues- began with sharing on Field Testing Experience –
methods used; results obtained; use of results by 4 testing centers and
followed by group discussions on : </span><span lang="EN-SG" style="font-family: "Futura Std Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-SG;">Field
Testing Protocols - Do we have all the protocols we need? How can we gain
confidence that field performance reflects design performance? The general
outcome was that we do not have a concrete protocol that address all the needs
and need one that has it all. Linking the lab results with field has been a
long standing issues with the presently available/followed field testing
methods. Incorporating user acceptance, durability would add to the field
testing guidelines to be worked on in future. Certain projects with CDM
requires just efficiencies of stoves in the field where WBTs in the field has
been the basis. The issue is the efficiencies in the lab and field using same
protocol gives significant variations and we need to address this issue
in the protocols as well. These were some of the issues being raised including
others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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‘performance and usage metrics to be examined in the field’. Programme needs
and user acceptance were important parameters to be included while the
performance matrices should have easily comparable units and identities.
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Group III- with questions to answer such as: what facets are required? Who can
participate? Etc. It took quite some time to let people know what is going on
in the ISO TC 285 and the next WG meeting in Guatemala. And then the issues of
field information as required depending on the programme/project scope were
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Strength, Weakness, Challenges, and Opportunities of Stoves Testing. Five
testing centers presented opening discussion questions to the floor. Some of
the important issue rose regarding the topics were the GACC supported RTKC have
been well capacitated for conducting tests while the sustainability issue has
been overlooked. Especially in the developing countries people/stoves
entrepreneurs are not willing to get their stoves tested unless they are
required by the programmes or projects. R & D has not been so much
emphasized by the programmes/projects but need to be done that can be one of
the means of sustainability to RTKC. The challenges incorporating
calibration issue was important one where the equipments and instruments available
in the neighboring countries like India would reduce this problem to some
extent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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associated with the in fractures for ICS Design and Testing Quality Assurance
and clearifying the concept of Round Robin Testing initiated by GACC. The
infrastructure for Stove Development units was shared by RTKCs having the
separate unit for development of stoves. The Round Robbin Testing by GACC was
clarified to the participants and views discussed on this initiatives urging
all the testing centres to participate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dinner. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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participants were encouraging and way forward for building on collaboration among
the South Asian RTKCs and other development partners. It was commonly agreed
that knowledge sharing activities as such should be organized periodically so
that everyone could be aware of the developments of each other and position
themselves in the pool that could help further development of the sector. Programme
Effectiveness needs to be well defined with appropriate modalities and methods.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301508928030820292.post-69876603316218642792014-07-25T02:41:00.000-07:002014-07-25T02:42:25.103-07:00ICS Regional Knowledge Sharing and Networking Workshop Kathmandu Nepal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Regional Cookstoves Testing and Knowledge Centre (RTKC) Nepal activities have been commencing since November 2012 at Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal (CRT/N) with support from Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC). Establishment of RTKC in Nepal has been considered an important intervention to Nepalese cookstoves testing and knowledge service market. RTKC have also been serving as a facilitator to link up Nepalese cookstoves issues with the global networks such as GACC and serving national authorities such as Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) and National Bureau of Standards and Metrology (NBSM) to initiate the national standards on cookstoves and develop/improve testing protocols suitable to Nepalese context with reference to IWA. </div>
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ICS Regional Knowledge Sharing and Networking Workshop aims to bring together Biomass Testing laboratory representatives from South Asian region and share the ICS testing issues amongst all and discuss on the strength, weakness, opportunity and challenges of the participating testing centers. The workshop will also aid for brainstorming on the field testing guidance document as the New Work Item Proposal (NWIP) for field testing guidance has been passed and will be added to the TC 285 Program of Work by the Committee Secretariats.</div>
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The workshop will be organized jointly by RTKC at Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal and Nepal Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (NACC) in coordination with Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC), under Ministry of Science Technology and Environment (MoSTE), Government of Nepal (GoN) and with support from Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC) and University of Illinois, Urbana-Campaign.</div>
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Expected participants are stove testing laboratory representatives, stoves testers, researchers, ICS designers, manufacturers and other ICS related stakeholders from the South Asia Regions: China, India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Mongolia, Cambodia, Indonesia and other interested countries.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Kathmandu 44600, Nepal27.7 85.33333300000003927.5875385 85.171971500000041 27.812461499999998 85.494694500000037tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301508928030820292.post-81738037730002666402014-03-03T03:05:00.000-08:002014-04-20T23:11:58.999-07:00RTKC Nepal Calls for Research Proposals from Graduate Students from Universities and Colleges in Nepal <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Regional Cookstoves Testing and Knowledge Centre (RTKC) at
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Due to overwhelming requests the deadline for submission of concept paper have been extended to April 15, 2014.</b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal
(CRT/N) is a partner of Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC), a public
–private initiative led by United Nations Foundation (UNF) to save lives,
improves livelihoods, empower women and preserve the environment by creating a
thriving global market for clean cooking solutions. Regional Cookstoves Testing
and Knowledge Centre (RTKC) an initiative of GACC roofed under CRT/N has been functioning
since November 2012 providing testing and knowledge services in line with Government
of Nepal’s ambitious mission of ‘Clean Cooking Solution for all by 2017’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Establishment of RTKC has been
considered an important intervention to Nepalese biomass energy sector with the
first biomass stoves testing laboratory of its kind in Nepal. Besides, RTKC has
been well recognized by stakeholders and have been offering testing orders to
RTKC since its inception. RTKC has also been serving as a facilitator to link
up Nepalese cookstoves issues with the global networks and serving national
authorities to initiate the national standards on cookstoves and
develop/improve testing protocols suitable to Nepalese context with reference
to International Workshop Agreement (IWA), 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">RTKC under its student support
programme aims to prepare fresh graduates to develop interest and build up competency
in the future job market for which it announces grant that will help produce
quality research for their thesis work and contribute to the biomass energy
sector. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Throughout the country, preferably in the remote areas of Nepal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Eligibility:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Masters Final Year Students, preferably environmental
science, related engineering (including B.E. 4<sup>th</sup> year), energy
studies or any other related fields. Meritorious women and candidates from
socially and geographically marginalised communities will be given preference.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Intensive Training Workshop for Regional Testing and Knowledge Centre was </span><span style="font-family: "Futura Std Book","sans-serif";">organized to strengthen the global consortium collaborating on testing and
improving clean cooking technologies, as a follow up to the Intensive Training
Workshop held in January 2013 in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
This event aimed to foster the testing capacities of RTKCs, and to ensure
quality and uniformity in their services. Topics/activities covered included
establishing a laboratory, quality assurance, data management and integration,
field testing, field visits and lab observation, round robin testing, among
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workshop was organized by Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC), a
public-private partnership under the umbrella of United Nations Foundation. The
Alliance, in an effort to serve its goal of enabling 100 million households
round the world to adopt clean and efficient cooking technologies by 2020 has
supported establishment of Regional Testing and Knowledge Centres (RTKCs) in
many different countries. As such, the alliance has also been working on
capacity development of and collaboration between the RTKCs. Zamorano
University hosted the programme and facilitated associated activities. It has a dedicated Stove Unit and also
hosts RTKC for Honduras. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Ranyee (GACC) and Tim (ZU) opening the floor with<br />Introduction of participants at the Opening dinner at Zamorano Cafeteria</i></td></tr>
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program brought together participants from various RTKCs and relevant academic,
governmental and non-governmental organizations like the US EPA, University of
Illinois, Approvecho Research Centre, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group etc. from Asia,
Africa, and North, Central and South America.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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presentations, demonstrations and site visits were employed in the workshop to
disseminate pertinent information and for demonstration of facilities and
infrastructures, practices, services and practical application of knowledge.
Discussions were integrated within these means to foster interactive
environment, and separate discussion sessions were held for certain topics. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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performed during the workshop are outlined in the next section.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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workshop enhanced the participants' (particularly from RTKCs) awareness
regarding stove testing and provided techniques for other aspects like quality
assurance, data management, uncertainty calculations etc. Moreover, it also
provided means for RTKCs from all over the world to come together and share
their experiences. The programme paved a way for collaboration among all RTKCs
for sharing of plans, results and to ensure uniformity in practices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tentative plan was formed for the Round Robin Test, through rigorous
discussions among the Interim Committee at first and among all participants
later. The prototype of base stove model to be tested, fuel and operation
methods were determined. Participants also agreed upon means to share related
information amongst all associated to make the testing a huge success. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Prof. Rajendra Prasad (Teri, India) discussing with (Gracia, ZU) <br />on the fire starter at the Zamorano Stove Lab </i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Futura Std Book","sans-serif";">Demonstration
of new innovations and more readily available technologies gave participants
knowledge on recent development in the field of stove testing. Observation of
Zamorano Stove Centre's facilities, infrastructures and equipment provided
information about their lab, services etc. Site visits provided insight into
the scenario of cooking sector in rural households in Honduras.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301508928030820292.post-43516664291927324632013-10-26T22:29:00.004-07:002014-03-02T02:48:22.255-08:00Background Paper For Clean Cooking Market Place 2013, Nepal <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Out of 5.43 million families in Nepal, 4.50 million (83%) live in rural areas
and most of them have no access to any clean cooking energy. These households
are using fuels like firewood, cattle dung or agrowaste in traditional
three-stone or metal tripod stoves. Roughly 1.78 million households are using
some kind of clean cooking energy like Improved Cookstoves (ICS), biogas,
kerosene, LPG and electricity. This figure is obtained by adding an estimated
450,000 households using ICS and around 1.33 million households using cleaner
fuels like biogas (131,596), kerosene (55,610), LPG (1,140,662) and electricity
(4,523)1, as primary cooking fuel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Futura Std Book","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Thus, roughly 3.65 million rural
households are cooking in traditional stoves with fuel like firewood, dung and
agrowaste and almost 2.85 million households may qualify only for ICS at least
in short term and some 800 thousand households may qualify for domestic biogas,
particularly those currently using cattle dung for cooking(563,126)2. Of
course, solar cookers can be promoted as cooking energy solution in some
mountain districts,where firewood is really scarce and biogas is also not
feasible.</span><span style="font-family: 'Futura Std Book', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Source: nepalcookstoves.org</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Futura Std Book', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Futura Std Book","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Author: Saroj Rai, Senior Renewable
Energy Advisor, SNV</span><span style="font-family: 'Futura Std Book', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301508928030820292.post-64777204165593851952013-10-01T01:37:00.001-07:002013-10-03T03:24:08.389-07:00Controlled Cooking Test (CCT) Training concludes at RETS premises<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>CCT Team at the end of the training</i></td></tr>
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tools to get insights of the improved stoves to traditional ones. This tool is
used to compare the efficiencies, emissions and other stoves parameters of two
different stoves in completely controlled conditions in the field.
Comparatively CCT is quite often not preferred as to WBTs and KPTs as it is
quite lengthy and needs a precise controlled environment.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>CCT being carried out under the PEMS hood at RETS</i></td></tr>
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CCT training took place during 15-19 September 2013 at the
Renewable Energy Test Station (RETS). The training was provided by Mr. Alex
Seidel and Mr. Dean Still from Aprovecho Research Centre (ARC), Origon
USA. All together 8 participants (5 from
RTKC, 2 from RETS and 1 from AEPC) benefited from the training, including 3
local cooks. 3 cooks cooked 18 same meals, 3 in each stove (traditional three
stone fire and CRT/N’s improved rocket stove.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301508928030820292.post-33267388281368989612013-09-23T02:59:00.001-07:002013-10-03T03:52:21.455-07:00Stove Design and Performance Testing Workshop 9-13 September 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Alternative Energy
Promotion Center (AEPC), Center for Rural Technology, Nepal (CRT-N) and
Renewable Energy Test Station (RETS) jointly hosted a 5-day Training on Cook Stove
Design and Performance Testing at RETS Premises, Nepal Academy of Science and
Technology (NAST) Compound in Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal from 9-13 September,
2013. The training was sponsored by
Winrock International and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and was led
by Aprovecho Research Center. Altogether
41, including 10 female and 31 male, participants from 26 organizations involved
in improved cooking stove (ICS) development, dissemination and testing participated
in the training.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Trainees conducting CCT with modified stoves</span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The primary
objective of this capacity building training was to equip the organizations
with cook stove design principles and cookstove testing knowledge to inform and
improve stove design, performance and use. Participants in the training had the
opportunity to learn how to test, evaluate and improve their stove models that use
solid biomass as a fuel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">More than 4 million
households in Nepal continue using solid biomass as the usual type of cooking
fuel. So far, with the involvement of a number of organizations, AEPC has
successfully disseminated more than 744,000 ICS, nearly 300,000 biogas and 600+
solar cookers in the country. In January this year, while celebrating Renewable
Energy Week 2013, Government of Nepal made an ambitious announcement
"Clean Cooking Solutions for all by 2017 (CCS 2017) thereby ensuring
indoor air pollution free Nepal" with aims to provide cleaner cooking
technologies to more than 3 million households by 2017. In addition, as more
than 3 billion people around the world use solid fuels for their home cooking
and heating, Nepal’s experience, expertise and achievements will contribute to
the goal of 100 million homes using clean and efficient stoves by 2020. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The hosting
organizations believe that this training will help in designing and selecting
quality stoves suitable for Nepalese context and hence support in the
dissemination of better quality stoves in the country ultimately supporting the
mission of CCS 2017.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301508928030820292.post-50686990281981091842013-09-22T03:07:00.001-07:002013-09-23T03:10:50.081-07:00RTKC Organizes Training and Capacity Building Workshop on Cookstoves Programme Effectiveness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Training and Capacity Building Workshop on Cookstoves Programme Effectiveness – took place during 22-24 July 2013 at Yala Maya Kendra, Patan under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Tami Bond. The event was also supported by Winrock international Nepal. It was participated by 17 Core trainees (13 CRT/N- 3 from field offices, 3 AEPC, 1 RETS). The training workshop was organized to develop the capacity of staffs working in biomass sector at CRT/N and few other related organizations to use testing protocols and develop other tools to evaluate the effectiveness of cook stove programme.<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301508928030820292.post-50383754885981930702013-09-22T03:07:00.000-07:002013-09-23T03:14:11.602-07:00RTKC’s Participation at Clean Cooking Market Place (CCMP 2013)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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RTKC participated the event organized by AEPC along with various stakeholders during 10-12 July 2013 at United Trade Centre, Thapathali. The event included Seminar, Expo and Field Visit. Centre for Rural Technology Nepal (CRT/N) being one of the supporters of the event had participated actively in the mission. Products, Services and Partnership opportunities were showcased by CRT/N with highlights on Regional Cookstoves Testing and Knowledge Centre (RTKC) establishment that provide cookstoves testing services with precise efficiency and accuracy. The test results of some of the stoves were pretty interesting to visitors. The other highlight of CRT/N was the Improved Cookstoves Programme with Carbon Finance (ICF) in which the two rocket stoves viz: Rocket stove with Metallic Combustion Chamber and Metallic Top Plate (RS1.1) and Rocket Stove with Ceramic Combustion Chamber and Metallic top plate (RS3.1) being promoted in the far-western development region were showcased. One another attraction was the Business Model ICS (Institutional Rocket Stove with Chimney, IRSC) recently developed by Rural Energy and Technology Service Centre (RETSC) team at CRT/N. <a href="http://trackingmydays.blogspot.com/2013/09/crtns-participation-at-ccmp-2013.html">For more </a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301508928030820292.post-56559186113145244082013-09-22T02:52:00.001-07:002013-09-25T01:40:19.745-07:00GACC Technical Manager, Dr. Ranyee Chiang Visits RTKC Nepal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Dr. Chiang from Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC) on her mission to south Asian region visited CRT/N on 14 and 15 August 2013. During her visit several fruitful discussions took place. RTKC activities and GACCs views were clarified during the meetings. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Dr. Ranyee Chiang in interaction session with CRT/N collegues; </i><br />
<i>Mr Lumin Kumar Shrestha, Officiating ED; Mr Subarna Kapali; </i><br />
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Taking advantage of Ranyee's expertise <b>Idea Shearing on Improving Testing Protocols</b> – was organized jointly by RTKC CRT/N and AEPC at AEPC Conference hall in the afternoon of 14 August 2013 in the special presence of Dr Ranyee Chiang. The outcome of National Workshop on Standards and testing of Cookstoves were shared and discussion took place on improving testing protocols among the number stakeholders of GoN, individual testing centres including NGOs, INGO etc. in the context of GoN’s mission of “Clean Cooking Solutions for all by 2017” and biomass experts. Over 35 participants participated in the programme.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>At Idea sharing workshop on testing protocols - at AEPC. Mr. Upadhyay </i><br />
<i>Sharing on the out comes of National Workshop on Standards</i><br />
<i> and Testing of Stoves held on 25 July 2013</i><br />
<i><a href="http://trackingmydays.blogspot.com/2013/09/gacc-representative-visits-crtn.html">Also read</a></i></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301508928030820292.post-18300828034424402372013-09-22T02:51:00.002-07:002013-09-25T21:17:45.910-07:00Prof. Dr. Rajendra Prasad from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) visits RTKC Nepal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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– Prof. Dr. Rajendra Prasad from IIT India visited CRT/N RTKC on 11 July 2013. RTKC Nepal’s activities and vision/mission were shared. Prof. Prasad did share on the National Standards of Cookstoves Testing in India and envisioned us on the latest developments on the stoves testing tools in the global arena. His presence also as a RTKC coordinator at IIT, India helped RTKC Nepal built up the smooth relation among the RTKCs supported by GACC. His willingness to support and move ahead in a collaborative manner had been an encouraging factor for RTKC Nepal.<br />
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RTKC took place on 6 June 2013 in the special presence of Prof. Dr. Govinda Raj Pokharel, Executive Director Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC), Government of Nepal (GoN) and Renowned Cardiologist Dr. Mrigendra Raj Pandey. Representatives from various organisations - government bodies, INGOS, NGOs were invited.<br />
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In the programme RTKC vision and mission with activities were shared and various delegates spoke on the necessity of a wel equipped biomass laboratory in Nepal. They also congratulated CRT/N for such initiation.<br />
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The main speakers were Mr Bim Prasad Shrestha, HOD, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Kathmandu University; Prof. Dr. Govinda Raj Pandey, Executive Director of Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC); Dr. Mrigendra Raj Pandey, Chairman of Mrigendra Memorial Trust and renowned cardiologist; Mr. Hari Gopal Gorkhali, RTKC Lab supervisor; Mr. Ganesh Ram Shrestha, Executive Director, Centre for Rural Technology (CRT/N)<br />
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Laboratory Emissions Monitoring System (LEMS) Setup and WBT Training – a ten days training on LEMS setup and Introductory WBT Training was conducted at its renovated laboratory at CRT/N under the guidance of Mr. Alex Seidel, Emission Engineer at ARC lab during 8-18 April 2013. LEMS was setup and CRT/N RTKC along with Renewable Energy Testing Station (RETS) participants under Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) also benefited form the training. RTKC lab came into operation from May 2013 with makeup tests for sharpening the testing ability of RTKC staffs.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Dr. Bim Prasad Shrestha,</i><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> HOD Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Kathmandu University</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Dr. Ramesh Man Singh</i><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">, Vice Chair, Centre for Energy and Environment Nepal</span></li>
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Professor Smith from University of California Berkeley visited CRT/N on 15 January 2013 on his visit to Nepal. Professor Smith was invited to CRT/N as a resource person to update its staffs on the Global perspectives on Indoor Air Pollution (IAP) and Cookstoves related developments. In the mean time RTKC benefited with hands on knowledge of wide range of IAP instruments developed by Berkeley Air Monitoring Group and helped us identify the instruments needed for RTKC. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301508928030820292.post-7722967663902198002013-09-22T02:50:00.000-07:002013-09-23T02:00:23.695-07:00RTKC Nepal Materialized - The Initiation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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RTKC - an initiative to improve technology, communicate performance and promote sales and adoption of clean cooking devices promoting research and development of cookstoves in Nepal and the region is funded by Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC) and hosted by Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal (CRT/N). The RTKC is developing into an independent and internationally recognized stove testing service provider moving ahead with the mission of establishing itself into a cen<o:p></o:p></div>
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With necessary supports from Associate Professor Dr. Tami Bond, University of Illinois an International Consultant for RTKC Nepal and Aprovecho Research Centre (ARC), Oregon the equipments were identified and processed for procurement during the first few months of inception. Laboratory Emission Measurement System (LEMS) a product of ARC was ordered.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mr. Hari Gopal Gorkhali, RTKC Supervisor attended the EPA Intensive Training for Cookstoves Testing at Triangle Park North Carolina during 28 January to 1 February 2013 on GACC’s invitation along with 40 stove testers, researchers, developers and implementers from sixteen different countries. The training was focused on extensive formal and informal discussions on laboratory set‐up, maintenance, calibration and management; laboratory safety; quality assurance project plans; fuel measurements; field equipment set‐up; strengthening collaboration and knowledge sharing between testing centers; data processing and analyses. This had really been fruitful to start up the project at CRT/N.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301508928030820292.post-83612903092697948712013-09-22T02:49:00.000-07:002013-09-23T03:39:23.177-07:00RTKC hosts National Workshop on Standards and Testing of Cookstoves in Nepal <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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National Workshop on Standards and Testing of<b> </b>Cookstoves – took place at Hotel Himalaya on 25 July 2013. The event was organized in collaboration with AEPC, GoN in association with Kathmandu University, Centre for Energy and Environment Nepal (CEE-N), Practical Action/ Indoor Air Pollution and Health Forum, Renewable Energy Test Station (RETS) under Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), Centre of Energy Studies (CES), Institute of Engineering (IOE), Tribhuvan University.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The event was actively participated by over 80 participants representing different players such as National Bureau of Standards and Testing (NBSM) GoN, Smart Urja Pvt. Ltd., World Bank, UNDP/RERL, WWF, ICIMOD, RECAST, NAST, CRT/N, ENPHO, ECCA, FOST Nepal, Min Energy, NEEP/GIZ, Nepal Services Pvt. Ltd, Swastha Chulo, Winrock International, Subha Biomass Pvt. Ltd, Global Peace Association, IUCN among others.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Delegates on the dice: (from right) Mr Lumin Kumar Shrestha, Officiating ED, CRT/N; <br />Mr Gaanesh Prasad Pathak, Sr. Division Engineer, NBSM;<br />Mr. Nawa Raj Dhakal, Assistant Director, NRREP/AEPC; <br />Dr. Tami Bond, Assistant Prof. University of Illinois; <br />Mr. Prem Bahadur Basnet, General Manager, RETS</i></td></tr>
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The consensus of the workshop was that providing clean energy (cooking solutions) to people who needed is the main goal and standard benchmark and protocol are the tools for achieving this. The priority of the time is setting up the benchmark keeping in mind the GoN’s ambitious mission of “Clean cooking Solutions for all by 2017” and revise the interim protocol 2009 for testing standards and create uniformity in testing procedures for all the testing centres in Nepal by obtaining accreditation from NBSM to ensure quality.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301508928030820292.post-44734744945104732982013-09-02T01:55:00.000-07:002013-10-03T03:51:09.631-07:00Regional Cookstoves Testing and Knowledge Centre (RTKC) Nepal Down the Lane<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mr. Hari Gopal Gorkhali, RTKC Supervisor attended the EPA Intensive Training for Cookstoves Testing at Triangle Park North Carolina during 28 January to 1 February 2013 on GACC’s invitation along with 40 stove testers, researchers, developers and implementers from sixteen different countries. The training was focused on extensive formal and informal discussions on laboratory set‐up, maintenance, calibration and management; laboratory safety; quality assurance project plans; fuel measurements; field equipment set‐up; strengthening collaboration and knowledge sharing between testing centers; data processing and analyses. This had really been fruitful to start up the project at CRT/N.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Prof. Kirk R. Smith’s CRT/N Visit –</b> Professor Smith from University of California Berkeley visited CRT/N on 15 January 2013 on his visit to Nepal. Professor Smith was invited to CRT/N as a resource person to update its staffs on the Global perspectives on Indoor Air Pollution (IAP) and Cookstoves related developments. In the mean time RTKC benefited with hands on knowledge of wide range of IAP instruments developed by Berkeley Air Monitoring Group and helped us identify the instruments needed for RTKC.<o:p></o:p></div>
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RTKC took place on 6 June 2013 in the special presence of Prof. Dr. Govinda Raj Pokharel, Executive Director Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC), Government of Nepal (GoN) and Renowned Cardiologist Dr. Mrigendra Raj Pandey. Representatives from different government bodies, INGOS, NGOs, biomass entrepreneurs and related stakeholders were present in the occasion. Since then some fixed type rocket stoves have been tested and reported to clients.<br />
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<b>Prof. Dr. Rajendra Prasad’s visit to CRT/N</b> – Prof. Prasad from IIT Delhi visited CRT/N RTKC on 11 July 2013. RTKC Nepal’s activities and vision/mission were shared. Prof. Prasad did share on the National Standards of Cookstoves Testing in India and envisioned us on the latest developments on the stoves testing tools in the global arena. His presence also as a RTKC coordinator at IIT, India helped RTKC Nepal built up the smooth relation among the RTKCs supported by GACC. His willingness to support and move ahead in a collaborative manner had been an encouraging factor for RTKC Nepal.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Idea Shearing on Improving Testing Protocols</b> – This event was organized jointly by RTKC CRT/N and AEPC at AEPC Conference hall in the afternoon of 14 August 2013 in the special presence of Dr Ranyee Chiang. The outcome of National Workshop on Standards and testing of Cookstoves were shared and discussion took place on improving testing protocols among the number stakeholders of GoN, individual testing centres including NGOs, INGO etc. in the context of GoN’s mission of “Clean Cooking Solutions for all by 2017” and biomass experts. Over 35 participants participated in the programme.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr. Ranyee Chiang, Technical Manager at Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves visited CRT/N on 14 August 2013. Mr. Lumin Kumar Shrestha Officiating ED
welcomed her with brief introduction to CRT/N with its brief history and role
it has played in the country’s renewable energy sector. Then, Mr. Basudev Upadhyay,
RTKC Coordinator at CRT/N continued the CRT/N’s strategic functions in the
renewable energy sector along with information on the organizational assets and
initiatives. This was followed by RTKC milestone presentation. RTKCs up to date
activities were shared coupling with associated discussions and clarifications
in between. The chronological updates of RTKC activities were appreciated. Collaboration
aspect of CRT/N as a whole and RTKC specifically was briefed by officiating supervisor,
Mr. Subarna Kapali. The role of partners at various levels of stove
implementation process and collaboration among various testing centers were the
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During the conversation several quarries were raised by
Ranyee. Among them the future activities of the grant period were discussed for
their purpose and scope. For the first years remaining activities, ICS Regional
Network Building Workshop was the major topic of discussion. The purpose should
not just be limited to sharing on what RTKC’s around the region have been
doing. Some kind of research papers presentation along with training on some
specific topics (to be identified..) would be more meaningful and interesting.
Not necessary to follow the time line activities as they were proposed in the
proposal. The activities can be reframed depending on the present necessity to
achieve the overall goal of RTKC. In this regard RTKC team has agreed to
discuss within the team and propose through email. Our multi-partner workshop
recently concluded was highly appreciated. In the meantime RTKC’s 5 year road
map was also briefly shared.In this regard, Ranyee has agreed to connect some
Knowledge Management related people at GACC. One important issue Ranyee raised
was on sharing the test results from the laboratory that purposively depends on
the clients’ interest. Prior to sharing we need to have consent from the
clients. Besides Testing, Ranyee also figured out that RTKC can become
the leading knowledge partner for the Government of Nepal’s Energy sector. So
activities relating to research and development should be prioritized that can
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mentioned the testers in the lab are women which was the exception among other
RTKC’s. Sharing experience of her visit to other RTKC’s around the globe,
Bolivia and Honduras have similar issues of Nepal and it would be fruitful to
link up with them regarding protocol developments and testing on the high
altitude stoves (Bolivia) and fixed types of stoves (Honduras). IIT Delhi is
well equipped in context to laboratory set up and would be good to visit it.
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The programme started with welcome remarks from AEPC ED,
Prof. Dr. Govinda Raj Pokhrel where he highlighted the role of AEPC and CRT/N
on materializing the ambitious mission of clean cooking solution for all by
2017. This was continued by the presentation on Recent Development in Nepal on
Cookstoves Sector and Importance of Testing and quality assurance in NRREP
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The following was the presentation on the National Workshop
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2013 by RTKC coordinator, Mr. Basudev Upadhyay. With the brief introduction of
the workshop main issues and responses were presented with the conclusion on
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developments on standards and Testing of cookstoves. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This was followed by discussions. The unanswered issues of
the workshop were put forth for discussion. Some of the issues that came up
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Weather Nepal should try to propose its own protocols and
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For instance follow the international guidelines and opt for
their own protocols and standards once enough knowledge and expertise is gained
in near future. We still have long way to go to provide our feedback to
international community like ISO.<o:p></o:p></div>
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NBSM strongly advocated for the National standards and that
is possible to attain through National stakeholders support. The testing centers
should put forth the requirements and suggest NBSM to work on it as NBSM
doesnot have enough knowledge and expertise on the cookstoves sector. But
jointly it can be developed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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of the programme by Mr. Nawaraj Dhakal.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301508928030820292.post-1658370813319096802013-09-01T03:50:00.002-07:002013-10-29T21:09:53.061-07:00CRT/N’s Participation at CCMP 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As a part of promoting clean cookstoves, Alternative Energy
promotion Centre (AEPC) organized an international event "Clean Cookstoves
Market Place 2013 (CCMP 2013)" from July 10th -
12th 2013 in Kathmandu with the purpose of exploring and showcasing
successful national and international cookstoves designs and business models
along with creating a conducive environment for collaboration between
cookstoves entrepreneurs and financing institutions. Nepal Alliance for Clean
Cookstoves <a href="http://nepalcookstoves.org/">website</a> was officially lunched
as a national level alliance that works as an affiliate of Global Alliance for
Clean Cookstoves.<o:p></o:p><br />
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The event included Seminar, Expo and Field Visit. Centre for
Rural Technology Nepal (CRT/N) being one of the supporters of the event had
participated actively in the mission. Products,
Services and Partnership opportunities were showcased by CRT/N with highlights
on Regional Cookstoves Testing and Knowledge Centre (RTKC) establishment that provide
cookstoves testing services with precise efficiency and accuracy. The test results of some of the stoves were
pretty interesting to visitors. The other highlight of CRT/N was the Improved
Cookstoves Programme with Carbon Finance (ICF) in which the two rocket stoves
viz: Rocket stove with Metallic Combustion Chamber and Metallic Top Plate
(RS1.1) and Rocket Stove with Ceramic Combustion Chamber and Metallic top plate
(RS3.1) being promoted in the far-western development region were showcased.
One another attraction was the Business Model ICS (Institutional Rocket Stove
with Chimney, IRSC) recently developed by Rural Energy and Technology Service
Centre (RETSC) team at CRT/N.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Besides these several public/private organizations
entrepreneurs from different part of the world (chiefly from India, China, and
Nepal) working in clean cooking solutions participated in the event. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301508928030820292.post-29709872116212585362013-08-20T03:12:00.000-07:002013-09-23T04:11:34.598-07:00National Workshop on Standards and Testing of Cookstoves took off at Hotel Himalaya on 25 July 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A draft report on the outcomes of the "National Workshop on Standards and Testing of Cookstoves in Nepal"</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Regional Cookstoves
Testing and Knowledge Centre (RTKC) Nepal under Centre for Rural Technology,
Nepal (CRT/N) organized a one-day workshop on 25<sup>th</sup> July 2013
entitled “<b>National Workshop on Standards
and Testing of Cookstoves in Nepal” </b>in collaboration with Alternative
Energy PromotionCentre (AEPC), in association with </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Renewable Energy
Testing Station (RETS), </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Kathmandu University, Department of Mechanical
Engineering (KU), Centre for Energy and Environment-Nepal (CEE-N), </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Practical
Action Nepal/Indoor Air Pollution and Health Forum (IAPH) and </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Centre</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"> for Energy Studies,
Institute of Engineering (CES, IOE)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The workshop was
organised to share on stove testing practices including stove testing
protocols, methodologies and operation of measuring devices existing in various
cookstoves testing centres in Nepal to perform efficiency and indoor air
emissions measurements and discuss on the policy issues on stove testing protocols
and standards including collaboration/coordination aspects among the existing
stoves testing and related organisations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The event was divided
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Technical
Session (Morning Session): </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">to discuss on
collaboration/coordination aspects among different stoves and related
organizations and also touch base on standards and protocol they have been
following. All together six centres including RTKC Nepal presented on their
centre goals and their activities in the morning session. This was followed by
interactive discussion sub-session where the views and questions were shared
among the participants based on the presentations and followed by Brainstorming
Session: discussion on a point question on collaborative approach among various
stakeholders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The major issues raised
and common responses were:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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test stoves?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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addition/marketing, branding<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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receive grant for thesis writing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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intervention <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">to find the appropriate stove for a
particular area/ user acceptance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fuel other than fire-hoods<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Common testing protocols will help
compare the results and make easy for the choice of stoves for dissemination<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Pros and cons of
different stoves testing parameters: CCT, KPT and WBT<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Depends on time and budget, availability
of trained professionals, and purpose of carrying out the test. WBT is
preferred in the laboratory while CCT is preferred in the field.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with IWA tier referencing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Depends on need. Should aim for the best
say ‘Tier 4’ for all parameters but depends on requirements for example the
stove promoted for space heating in the mountainous regions cannot be assumed
disqualified for safety reason.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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use and priority of aspects can be assigned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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type of stove testing clients to ensure their stoves being tasted<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have provision for financial support like the stove subsidy to private
manufacturers and other concerned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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testing centers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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assurance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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accreditation from NBSM to be a certified testing agency<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Mechanism of monitoring and evaluation of the accredited
labs should be developed and materialized by government authority like NBSM,
AEPC <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and the developer itself cannot be a biased free certifying agency for own
stoves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Policy
Session (Afternoon Session): </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">to discuss on
the policy issues of standardization of stoves testing protocols, test results
and stoves among different stove related public/private organisations and
government bodies. Remarks by delegates and presentations and discussions were
the attractions of the session.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Session began with the
cooking status in Nepal through GoN’s ambitious programme of distributing clean
cookstoves to 3M households by 2017. AEPC’s initiative on stove quality
assurance on ICS Testing and Dissemination was concerned with ways of selection
of new models of cookstoves to disseminate and the procedures of quality
assurance of stoves through testing. AEPC’s KPT and CCT results were also summarized.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Presentation on Bio-energy
Research Activities at NAST for Evidence Based Policy Formulation was more
based on the technical session’s guidelines that highlighted on objectives and
activities of Bioenergy Lab and possible avenues on bioenergy sector.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This was followed by
presentation from NBSM focusing on the process of Nepal Standard development.
The process of obtaining accreditation was briefed with calling on testing
centres to enrol in the list.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The presentations were
followed by discussion. Some of the major issues and concerns were:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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developing any standards and compliance testing at NBSM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If any product which is as per National
Standard (NS) and if the government think that is mandatory, can commence issue
order and comply. There are 12 such products including cement. If the products
have no NS mark then they can’t be sold in Nepal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The existing labs recognised by NBSM will be
considered for standards<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">What is the point
of having stove standards?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For Nepal Standard ‘NS’ Mark<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stoves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Setting up a benchmark for institutional
stoves is necessary and qualified design should get subsidy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Scientific and Global perspectives on stoves testing standards, a
presentation by Associate Professor Ms Tami Bond briefed on the history of
stoves testing and highlighted on the programme effectiveness of the global
stoves programmes stating that in an effective program the full performance of
the technology is achieved, poorly performing technology should be displaced
and a large fraction of users adopt better technology. Accordingly, possible
reasons for loss of effectiveness is due to not accepting the technology by
users, don’t use the technology and users don’t adopt the technology (cost,
other motivation). On her presentation she also clarified on the IWA details.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">It is very difficult to set up standards as every place is different in
terms of stoves, fuels, foods, cooking habits, and uses despite the fact that
every place is same for the emissions that have effects beyond household and health
effects of PM is similar around the
world. Regarding IWA -International Workshop Agreement (IWA) is a temporary <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Workshop agreement (that provides stoves rating until the next standards
are formed) held in The Hague, Netherlands, Feb 2012 which was participated by
over 80 participants (including 3 from Nepal).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">One of the important issues of the discussion of the presentation was
the Research gap and standards between USA and Nepal and the challenge and the common
response was that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Nepal has special challenges because of
landscape and type of combustionsources may vary, however pollutants are almost
same all over the world. One of the main reasons is the technology that widens
the research gaps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of target of project/programme. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This was followed by another
discussion for which one of the core questions and discussion is outlined below:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">“Does Nepal need its own stove standards and testing
standardization? <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">Nepal
needs stoves standards to sell or promote stoves. Setting up the clear
benchmark/standards referring to the Tier systems set by IWA can be considered.
Tier ZERO may be acceptable in some parameters. Setting up bench mark also
should consider the situations like cooking indoor or outdoor and geographical
conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Senior Scientist, Dr. Rabindra Dhakal, National Academy of Science <br />and Technology (NAST) <br />speaks his thoughts on 'does Nepal need its own Testing Standards!'</i></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Nepal
has much more to do to have National Standards on cookstoves and this is the
good initiation. Interim stove testing protocol need to be updated which was
prepared in 2009based upon the available equipment and existing situation of
that time. Technology upgrading and HR development are two major components to
be considered for upgrading interim protocol and setting up standards.Nepal is
not the voting member of ISO yet but NBSM is upgrading and working on to obtain
a full membership.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The
existing IWA standards are to guide the testing standards while Nepal need to
set up the bench mark as guiding mechanism to choose a stove for promotion and
dissemination. Also there should be a mechanism of reward and penalize on the
stoves manufactured/promoted. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">Conclusions:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Providing
clean energy (cooking solutions) to people who needed is the main goal and
standard benchmark and protocol are the tools for achieving this. The priority
of the time is setting up the benchmark keeping in mind the GoN’s ambitious
mission of “Clean cooking Solutions for all by 2017” and revise the interim
protocol 2009 for testing standards and create uniformity in testing procedures
for all the testing centres in Nepal by obtaining accreditation from NBSM to
ensure quality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: red;">Your valid comments are appreciated as we are in the very early stage regarding Cookstoves testing and cookstoves standards.</span></span></div>
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