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Design Principles for Wood Burning Cook Stoves Aprovecho Research Center Shell Foundation Partnership for Clean Indoor Air The Partnership for Clean Indoor Air was launched by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other leading partners at the World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in September 2002 to improve health, livelihood, and quality of life by reducing exposure to indoor air pollution, primarily among women and children, from household energy use. Over 80 organizations are working together to increase the use of clean, reliable, affordable, efficient, and safe home cooking and heating practices that reduce people’s exposure to indoor air pollution in developing countries. For more information, or to join the Partnership, visit www.PCIA. This document was developed by Aprovecho Research Center under a grant from the Shell Foundation to provide technical support to household energy and health projects to ensure that their designs represent technical best practice. The principle authors of this booklet include: Dr. Mark Bryden, Dean Still, Peter Scott, Geoff Hoffa, Damon Ogle, Rob Balis, and Ken Goyer. Indoor air pollution causes significant health problems for the 2 billion people worldwide that rely on traditional biomass fuels for their cooking and heating needs. Over the last 30 years, awareness of the environmental and social costs of using traditional fuels and stoves and knowledge about how to reduce emissions from these stoves has grown. Yet the improved stoves currently available to poorer customers do not always represent best practice or an understanding of design based on modern engineering. The knowledge required to design cleaner burning stoves exists in centers of excellence in several locations around the world. Providing this information to those involved in promoting impr