New Delhi, Dec 13 (FN Bureau) An innovative fuel efficient domestic cooking stove for Piped Natural Gas (PNG) has been developed by the Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA) in collaboration with the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research and Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP) Dehradun. This is the first such product in the country, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Rameswar Teli informed Rajya Sabha.
The entire combustion system including burner, mixing tube, venture has been customized in this new stove to handle PNG. The stove has been optimized to have the highest thermal efficiency. The newly developed PNG stove has a thermal efficiency of around 55% in comparison to the maximum efficiency of 40% for the modified LPG stoves presently being used on PNG by the domestic households. The newly developed PNG stove has a cost almost similar to normal LPG stove and the PCRA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Energy Efficiency Services Limited under Ministry of Power for developing and implementing a model for marketing this new PNG stove by EESL for PNG customers on pan India basis.