Vertical fed biomass cook stove to be presented in Cameroon

     Engr. Jonathan E. Lacayanga, Chairman, Research and Development of the Bataan Peninsula State University Abucay campus, invented the improved vertical fed biomass cook stove that responds to the problems of household air pollution or indoor air pollution.

   Aside from Calderon, BPSU Abucay campus Director Herminio Miguel and BPSU faculty member Engr. Walter Valdez collaborated with Lacayanga to develop the cook stove. The vertical fed biomass cook stove was already presented in Cambodia and China.

   The team of Lacayanga, Miguel, Valdez, and Calderon has also just presented the clean cook stove in the supertyphoon Yolanda-ravaged communities of Eastern and Western Visayas.    

   The cook stove has been recognized by the Global Alliance for Clean Cook stoves (GACC), a United Nations initiative, making BPSU one of the about 430 institutions in the world belonging to the alliance and the first in the Philippines.

   As a member of GACC, BPSU becomes an implementing partner in realizing the vision of the alliance to provide and distribute 100 million clean cook stoves for biomass dependent households worldwide by the year 2020.

   Lacayanga has been seeking for the commercialization of the cook stove.