Presented by:

Shubha Laxmi Shrestha

Sr. Officer and Program Manager

Biomass Energy Sub-Component

National Rural and Renewable Energy Program (NRREP)

Alternative Energy Promotion Centre(AEPC)

Standard and Labeling: Nepalese Context

Clean Cooking Forum 201510- 13 Nov 2015, Accra Ghana

Alternative Energy Promotion Centre

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Established in Nov 3, 1996

National Executing Agency – Renewable energyprogrammes & projects

Government Institution under MoEST- Semiautonomous status; Board represented by publicsector, private sector & financial sector

Mandate: Policy and plan formulation, resourcemobilization, program execution, technical support,M&E, quality assurance & coordination

Alternative Energy Promotion Centre

Promoted Renewable

Energy Technologies

Solar (Thermal & PV)

Biogas (HH and Institutional)

Solid Biomass (ICS ,Gasifiers)

Hydro (Micro, Mini, IWM)

Wind Biofuel

Scenario on ICS dissemination in Nepal

TCS in a Gurung HH: Ilam

More than three million people in Nepal are still using TCS

No direct subsidy provided in Mud ICS

GoN subsidy provided in Metallic ICS

PRS

• Provide policy makers, donors, stove programs and other stakeholders with a credible basis for comparing stove performance and safety.

• Help all stakeholders have a common set of terminology [Clean, Efficient, Safe, Durable] for communicating and understanding stove performance.

• Give stove makers affirmation of product quality.

• Let stove users know that they are making a worthwhile investment.

• Drive innovation in the industry.

• Subsidy provision based on the stove performance and type.

……. and most importantly, to set demarcation line for differentiating truly improved stove form those that needed

further improvement before dissemination ……

Combustion EfficiencyWhy Benchmarking for Biomass Cookstoves in Nepal?

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Test Protocol, Facilities and Benchmarking for Cookstoves in Nepal

Testing Protocol/methods recommended in NIBC

- ISO-IWA recommended Water Boiling Test Version 4.2.2 and aboveshall be followed for testing the biomass cookstoves (excluding batchfeeding type cookstoves and charcoal, briquette burning stoves). Thestoves shall be tested under high power and low power phases.

- BIS recommended IS 13152 standard testing procedure shall befollowed for Thermal Efficiency test of batch fuel feeding type biomasscookstove (including charcoal stoves, briquette burning cookstoves andgasifiers).

- Biomass Stove Safety Protocol - Version 1.1 (developed at Iowa StateUniversity and recommended by ISO-IWA) shall be followed for safetyperformance measurement.

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Types of stoves Efficiency/ Fuel use PM 2.5

Emissions

CO

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Indoor emissions*

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CO

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Chimney Stove

(Natural Draft)

≥20 ≤0.045 ≤979 ≤8 ≤16 ≤0.20 ≤0.42* ≤2

Chimney Less

(Natural Draft)

≥25 ≤ 0.039 ≤386 ≤4 ≤11 ≤0.13 ≤0.62 ≤17

Forced Draft for

all stoves

≥35 ≤0.028 ≤168 ≤ 2 ≤9 ≤ 0.10 ≤0.49 ≤8

Nepal Interim Benchmark for solid biomass Cookstoves (NIBC,2014)

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Forced Draft for all

stoves≥30 ≤0.034 ≤277 ≤ 3 ≤10 ≤ 0.12 ≤0.56 ≤13

Reduced values based on local manufacturers feedback for promotional interim period.

Test Protocol, Facilities and Benchmarking for Cookstoves in Nepal

Nepal Interim Benchmark for solid biomass Cookstoves (NIBC,2014)

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Minimum criteria for stove material to be included in the next revision to assure physical quality / life of the stove.

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Progress towards Standardisation and Labeling of stoves

Piloting of ceramic and fixed imported models

Massive dissemination of limited stove models developed by AEPC

Large scale dissemination of various stove types developed by AEPC

Dissemination of stove models fulfilling NIBC, stove model open for individual branding with patent rights.

NIBC,2014 categorized stove based on the type and performance, as an early stage for product labeling and standardisation.

- Developing Improved Solutions for Cooking (DISC) program, implemented by the World Bank has recently selected the consultant for conducting “Produced Development and Labeling of Clean Cookstoves and Standardized Biomass Fuels for Nepali Market”

- GIZ/NEEP-II has been supporting AEPC for capacity development of biomass stove testing laboratory at RETS and NIBC revision.

Testing Facilities Available in Nepal

Renewable Energy Test Station (RETS)Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST)Khumaltar, Lalitpur

Testing and certification

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Laboratory Test:WBT Performance TestEmission Test (PM2.5. CO)Black carbon emissionSafety analysis

Field Test:WBT performance testEmission Test (PM2.5. CO)CCT test

Test report certification

Stove design and performance analysis support to clients

Field Testing using PEMS

Testing Facilities Available in Nepal

Regional Cookstoves Testing and Knowledge Centre, Nepal (RTKC),

Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal (CRT/N)

Testing and product development

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Various types of Improved Cooking Stoves tested for design listing and dissemination

Addressing Earthquake Victims need with stove relief package under defined quality criteria

Type of biomass improved cookstove

No. of Stove to be supported

Supporting Organisation/ service delivery process Progress

Portable HH Metallic body stove with one pot hole

20,000 AEPC GoN core budget/ National bidding process for selection of service including supply, installation and after sales service.Quality Requirement as per 3 specific NIBC criteria:Thermal Efficiency: ≥ 25 %PM2.5 Emission: ≤ 386 mg/MJdCO Emission: ≤ 11 g/MJd1 year replacement warranty

Bidder evaluation process ongoing

Portable HH Metallic body stove with one pot hole

20,000 AEPC/ NRREP budget/ National bidding process for selection of service including supply, installation and after sales service.Quality Requirement as per 3 specific NIBC criteria:Thermal Efficiency: ≥ 25 %PM2.5 Emission: ≤ 386 mg/MJdCO Emission: ≤ 11 g/MJd1 year replacement warranty

Bidding process in Pipeline

Addressing Earthquake Victims need with stove relief package under defined quality criteria

Type of biomass improved cookstove

No. of Stove to be supported

Supporting Organisation/ service deliveryprocess

Progress

Portable HH Metallic body stove, gasifierstove, institutional stove, cooking and heating stove

15,000Subsidisedas per GoNsubsidy policy

AEPC/NRREP/ disseminated through AEPC listed stove suppliers/ installers under subsidy provision.

Quality requirement as per NIBC mandatory criteria under applicable stove categories.

Continuous process based on demand

Metallic hood stoves and portable improved cook stoves/ institutional stoves

10,000 hood stoves, 20,000 portableclean cook stoves

Practical Action/ dissemination at 5 districts under result based financing model through enlisted compaQuality Requirement as per 3 specific NIBC criteria:Thermal Efficiency: ≥ 25 %PM2.5 Emission: ≤ 386 mg/MJdCO Emission: ≤ 11 g/MJd

Stove manufacturer and model listing process under final evaluation process