Triple Cone Stove Burning Ricehulls & Woodsmoke

by Herman Johannes of the Solar Energy Research Centre, Gadjah Mada University,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 1986

The triple cone ricehull stove reported here is claimed to be an improvement on previous
designs. It is composed of three clay components: the outer cone A, the central cone B and
the upper cone C. The stove may be operated as a pure ricehull stove or as a hybrid stove
burning ricehulls and woodsmoke while producing charcoal.

Fig 1 - A Stove Used to Burn Ricehulls Only

Ricehulls are poured through the 3cm slit between cone A. and cone B. When woodshavings
or other combustible material are dropped on this surface and ignited then this layer of hulls
will catch fire and burn. Cone B. becoming incandescent will scorch the hulls in contact with
it. Smoke from the burning hulls together with outside air will be sucked into B and bum off.
The cooking pot may be placed on B's mouth without using cone C, but a better thing to do
is to seat cone C in the mouth of A and place the cooking pot on C's mouth. In this case
smoke generated outside cone B and eventually not sucked into it will be compelled by cone
C to flow to the top of B and bum off.