SBIR-STTR Award

Biomass heating/cooking stoves in developing countries do not efficiently cook food or heat houses, while consuming too much fuel and emitting pollution resulting in respiratory illnesses, premature death, and climate change. Affordable technologies found in 1.) EPA approved heating stoves, 2.) DOE funded cooking stoves, and 3.) TEG (thermoelectric generation) lighting devices, improve heating, cooking, and lighting performance, reduce fuel use by 60%, and emissions of PM2.5 and CO by 95%. ASAT specializes in ating/cooking/TEG technologies and has developed super-clean biomass cooking stoves with DOE grants. ASAT proposes to develop an Integrated Stove that will be sold and replace traditional stoves in developing world markets. The Integrated Stove will heat homes and cook food much more effectively while lighting the kitchen, and charging cell phones and small appliances. The Integrated Stove will meet the ISO/IWA Tier 4 metrics, the 2015 WHO Intermediate Indoor Air Guidelines and the 2020 EPA Heating Stove PM2.5 standards. ASAT will sell the Integrated Stove in China through an existing one million stove per year distribution network, in ten developing world countries where ASAT has developed heating/cooking stoves, and in the USA through StoveTecStore.net, a commercially successful outlet owned and operated by ASAT.

Currently available biomass heating/cooking stoves in Asia and in the USA do not efficiently cook food or heat houses while consuming too much fuel and emitting pollution, resulting in respiratory illnesses and premature death. ASAT specializes in the development and manufacturing of clean burning biomass stoves. In SBIR Phase I, ASAT developed a low emission, fuel efficient Integrated Heating/Cooking Stove for market testing in China and in the USA. In SBIR Phase II, an optimized, lowest cost, 5W thermoelectric generator and an affordable catalytic converter begun in Phase I will be developed and manufactured. The addition of the thermoelectric generator and the catalytic converter completes a biomass fueled Integrated Stove that delivers clean heating, cooking, lighting, and charging of cell phones at an affordable, market ready price. The Integrated Stove prototype meets the 2015 WHO Intermediate Indoor Air Guidelines and the 2020 EPA Heating Stove PM 2.5 Standard. ASAT will market test and then sell the Integrated Stove in China through an existing one million stove per year distribution network, perhaps in Kenya and Africa with BURN Manufacturing, and in the USA through chain stores and StoveTecStore.net, a commercially successful outlet owned and operated by ASAT.