Gama Stove: Biomass Stove for Palm Kernel Shells in Indonesia

Indonesia is the largest palm oil producer. The current total plantation areas are approximately 8 million hectares. There are opportunities to exploit palm oil waste to replace fossil fuels. This paper presents the design of biomass stove with palm kernel shells. Stove performance testing includes combustion air flow, combustion temperature and water boiling test. The stove performance test shows the stove with combustion chamber diameter of 20 cm, height of 25 cm and burner air opening at 75% has good fuel efficiency and combustion temperature. It has efficiency of 66,63% and average combustion temperature of 682,590C.