Standards Development

Scope

This document will provide testing methods to evaluate performance, emissions, safety and durability of institutional cookstoves with capacity of more than 150 litres.

This document is intended to:

1. provide quantitative and qualitative measurements performance and safety of institutional cookstoves. These measurements include uncontrolled and controlled cooking tests

2. provide guidance for measurements of air pollution and personal exposure to PM2,5 and CO.

3. Provide guidance for prioritizing measurements that balance comprehensiveness and feasibility.

This document will not cover household cookstoves and stoves covered in ISO19867-1:2018 and ISO 19869:2019.

Purpose

Institutional stoves are stoves used to prepare food and/or hot water for large groups of people in establishments such as schools, prisons, commercial eating-places, refugee camps, school programmes, agro-food processing small-scale enterprises like fish smoking, local brewery, etc. Most of these stoves are between 150 litres to 300 litres. The published ISO standards cover stoves, which are up to 150 Litres leaving out the majority of the institutional cookstoves.

Institutions serve hundreds of people on a daily basis and use large amounts of fuel, mainly fuel wood to prepare such meals. Most of them do not make efficient use of the fuel they buy due to their stove designs. In addition, the health hazards such cookstove users are exposed to can be graver compared to household users since it involves far more than one person in such kitchens.

The main objectives of this proposal is to develop an international standard that can be used to assess the thermal efficiency, emissions and power of institutional cookstoves, provide technical advice to stove manufacturers and entrepreneurs, and to quantify the performance of stoves to enable comparison.

Whereas ISO19867-1:2018 and ISO 19869:2019 are very useful standards, they provide no guidance on how to test cookstoves bigger than 150 litres which are common in institutions especially prisons, schools, refugee camps, hospitals etc. yet these are the largest fuel consumers. With this gap, it is important that a standard specific to these stoves be developed.