Services

• Our Approach

  Our work is grounded in a user-centered, manufacturing-focused approach that brings together stove users, engineers, and local manufacturers. By engaging women who cook and workers who build the stoves, we ensure solutions reflect real cooking practices and production realities. This collaborative approach supports durable stove designs, scalable manufacturing systems, and lasting health, environmental, and economic benefits in the communities we serve.

• Cookstove Manufacturing Support

  BDL works alongside manufacturers as a technical collaborator to strengthen product performance and production systems. Each partnership begins with jointly defined product and manufacturing parameters, including performance, durability, cost, and scale goals. This is followed by a clear scope of work with milestones, timelines, and agreed commercial terms. Our aim is to build long-term capability and value, supporting partners as they grow and scale.

• Cookstove Design

  BDL works with cookstove manufacturers, distributors, and others to develop new cookstove designs and/or to improve on existing designs. We have expertise in rocket stoves, plancha stoves, charcoal stoves, and gasifier stoves. Burn Design Lab has extensive knowledge of the materials typically used in cookstove manufacturing.

• Independent

  Burn Design Lab is registered as a Regional Testing and Knowledge Center with the Clean Cooking Alliance (formerly known as the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves). Although we work closely with different cookstove manufacturers, BDL is an independent research, design and testing organization, that serves the needs of individual partners & clients.

• Cookstove Performance Testing

  BDL does complete cookstove testing, including efficiency, capacity, emissions (PM2.5, CO, & CO2), safety & durability. For emissions measurement, the testing laboratory at BDL includes both a LEMS (laboratory emissions monitoring system) and a combustion analyzer.

• Biomass Fuel Characterization & Assessment

  BDL is prepared to determine the suitability of any biomass material for use as a fuel for industrial, commercial, household, or other applications.

• User Research

  We can support the planning, coordination, & execution of user research as applied to cookstoves and fuels.