A seminar was held with the focus on the need of increasing efficiency of lPG and Bio-gas stove equipments
Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) organised an interactive seminar on “Need for inclusion of innovations in the standards of lPG and Bio-gas stove equipment.” The seminar was attended by over 56 participants from various stakeholders such as gas stove, gas water heater and bio-cook stove manufacturers, testing agencies, BIS licensees and officers of BIS.
RK Mittal, DDG while welcoming the dignitaries and participants briefed about the utility of standards for common man. He emphasised on a proactive approach to standardisation as various government programmes started by the Prime Minister for the betterment of the poor and disadvantaged like Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) under ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, National Biomass Cookstoves Programme under ministry of Ministry of New and Renewable Resources (MNRE) come under the scope of this committee.
In the technical session a presentation was given on “Failure Analysis of lPG stoves and vendor rating of lPG stove manufacturing units” in which the areas of improvement in stove manufacturing through adoption of good manufacturing practices like lean Manufacturing Practices, Poka-yoke and Kaizen were suggested. It was encouraged that the members work on increasing the efficiency of domestic and commercial gas burning appliances.