Grant Awarded: £57,739.88
Funder: Innovate-UK, Defra-Small Business Research Initiative (2023)
Key researchers: Abhishek Tiwary, Neil Brown and Dani Harmanto
This Innovate-UK funded project developed an integrated solution to reduce pollutants resulting from domestic wood burning in indoor space (mainly particulate matter, PM and volatile organic carbons VOCs). The main highlight of our research is that it offers stove makers means of retrofitting current technology with minimal modification requirements. The project’s key objectives were to conduct the feasibility of two improvements to existing wood stoves, respectively for better heat distribution in the combustion chamber and heat recovery from the flue.
Throughout, the approach incorporated seamless co-operation with two UK solid fuel stove makers (sharing real-world experience and features of their products currently circulating in the market). While so doing, the technical design is meant to be adaptable to ensure future evolution of its beta-version to accommodate for lateral developments in sensor-based automation to improve its operability.
The following are the most significant outcomes of this project:
