Rocket stove experiment

Hi, my name is Emmanuel, I am carrying out a project on efficiency of a stove. I am an electronics engineering student, please can anyone help with ways in which an efficiency of a stove could be measured. The supervisor said my stove will have a flue pipe attached to it at the top, and I should come up with different concepts of which I will control the air flow in and out of the stove, how it will affect the overall stove efficiency. The dilemma I am having in this project is how to go about it in an electronics concept, what kind of sensors will be needed and what measurements are to be taken ? I will appreciate if someone gives a hint or have an answer to my question as its very important to me, thanks.

Go to donkey32's board. There was à guy who iirc, set many sensors in his rocket, with the idea of connecting it to an arduino. I think a batch rocket would be more suited to your project.

Hi Satamax,

Please can you link me the donkey32's board ??

As far as testing equipment goes, efficiency is most easily measured with a Testo or something equivalent. However, they are very expensive (~$1500.00). The Testo actually pumps a little bit of the exhaust through and counts the PPM of CO and % of Oxygen, etc.

How can your professor ask you to measure something which takes such a piece of equipment?

Thanks a lot Satamax for the line. Hi Cindy, the sensors to be used shouldn't be that expensive as am only doing a prototype for the stove efficiency. They want me to come up with small sketch of a stove connected to a flue pipe and say how I will control the air flow in the stove.