A ‘biomass gas stove’ is the combination of a micro-gasifier heat generator
(the combustion unit) and a structure for effective transfer of the generated heat into a cook-pot (e.g. the pot-holder).
It is a ‘‘gas-burning stove’’ that makes its own supply of gas from dry solid biomass. Gasifier stoves are currently the cleanest burning option to burn solid biomass in a cook stove (Mukunda et al., 2010;MacCarty et al., 2010).
As opposed to conventional stoves, in gasifiers the creation of combustible gases from the biomass takes place in a separate location from the subsequent combustion of the
gases. Thus both processes can be optimized to achieve efficient and clean utilization of the fuel.