Context The Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas recently informed that a novel fuel efficient domestic cooking stove for Piped Natural Gas (PNG) has been developed by Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA) in collaboration with CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP) Dehradun.
Key takeaways
This is the first product of its kind in the Country.
Entire combustion system has been customised in this new stove to handle PNG.
The stove has been optimised to have the highest thermal efficiency of around 55% in comparison to the maximum efficiency of 40% for the modified LPG stoves
It has a cost almost similar to a normal LPG stove.
