Public sector oil marketing major Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. has developed LPG and PNG stoves with the highest thermal efficiency in the world.
The LPG stoves have already been launched with 74 percent efficiency which is six to seven percent more efficiency than the traditional gas burners. If all the households adopt the Bharat Hi Stoves, the oil companies can save 1.7 million tonnes of LPG worth Rs 7,000 crores annually, Chief General Manager in-charge (R&D) of the Corporate R&D Centre, Ravi Kumar V said, adding, as many as 70,000 users have adopted these stoves.
The BPCL has also developed an energy efficient PNG burner with 70 percent fuel efficiency as compared to the 55 percent efficiency of the traditional burners.