This is a measure of how efficient a specific fuel can be converted to use to cook, expressed as a proportion of a unit of the given fuel.
Used to calculate:fossil fuels consumed and biomass fuels consumed
Varies by: fuel
| Used | fuel | Reference | Location: Ecosystem (study period) |
Value | Units | Notes |
|---|
| * | Biodiesel | Assumed | New York City: Urban Area () | 0 | % (0 - 100) | This fuel is not used for cooking. |
| * | Coal | IARC 2010- Household Use of Solid Fuels | global: rural (1990-2003) | 25 | % (0 - 100) | This value represents the energy efficiency of bituminous coal for cooking. |
| * | Diesel / light fuel oil | Assumed | New York City: Urban Area () | 0 | % (0 - 100) | This fuel is not used for cooking. |
| * | Electricity | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1998- Technical Support Document for Residential Cooking Products | US: urban landscape () | 73.7 | % (0 - 100) | This value refers to the energy efficiency of electric coil cooktop stoves. |
| Electricity | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1998- Technical Support Document for Residential Cooking Products | US: urban landscape () | 74.2 | % (0 - 100) | This value refers to the energy efficiency of electric smooth cooktop stoves. | |
| * | Ethanol | Assumed | New York City: Urban Area () | 0 | % (0 - 100) | This fuel is not used for cooking. |
| * | Gas-electric hybrid | Assumed | New York City: Urban Area () | 0 | % (0 - 100) | |
| * | Gasoline | Assumed | New York City: Urban Area () | 0 | % (0 - 100) | |
| * | Geothermal | EIA 2010 - Geothermal Heat Pump Manufacturing Activities 2009 | US: All () | 4.025 | % (0 - 100) | Due to a lack of geothermal cooking efficiency information, we have assumed the same efficiency for cooking as for heating. This is the average COP (Coefficient of Performance) of the heating efficiencies of the four different 2009 model types listed. |
| * | Hydroelectric | Assumed | New York City: Urban Area () | 0 | % (0 - 100) | |
| * | Hydrogen | Assumed | New York City: Urban Area () | 0 | % (0 - 100) | |
| * | Jet fuel | Assumed | New York City: Urban Area () | 0 | % (0 - 100) | |
| * | Kerosene | IARC 2010- Household Use of Solid Fuels | global: rural (1990-2003) | 55 | % (0 - 100) | This value represents the energy efficiency of pressurized kerosine for cooking. |
| Kerosene | IARC 2010- Household Use of Solid Fuels | global: rural (1990-2003) | 35 | % (0 - 100) | This value represents the energy efficiency of kerosene for cooking when transferred through a wick flame. | |
| * | Municipal solid waste | Young & Khennas 2003- Feasibility and Impact Assessment of a Proposed Project to Briquette Municipal Solid Waste for Use as a Cooking Fuel in Rwanda | Rwanda: all (2001-2003) | 50 | % (0 - 100) | This value represents the energy efficiency of MSW briquettes as a cooking fuel compared with charcoal, wood, kerosene, and LPG. |
| * | Muscle | Assumed | New York City: Urban Area () | 0 | % (0 - 100) | |
| * | Natural gas | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1998- Technical Support Document for Residential Cooking Products | US: urban landscape () | 39.9 | % (0 - 100) | |
| Natural gas | IARC 2010- Household Use of Solid Fuels | global: rural (1990-2003) | 60 | % (0 - 100) | ||
| * | Natural gas compressed (CNG) | IARC 2010- Household Use of Solid Fuels | global: rural (1990-2003) | 60 | % (0 - 100) | This value represents the energy efficiency of natural gas for cooking. |
| * | Natural gas liquefied (LNG) | IARC 2010- Household Use of Solid Fuels | global: rural (1990-2003) | 60 | % (0 - 100) | This value represents the energy efficiency of natural gas for cooking. |
| * | Nuclear material | Assumed | New York City: Urban Area () | 0 | % (0 - 100) | |
| * | Propane / LPG | IARC 2010- Household Use of Solid Fuels | global: rural (1990-2003) | 60 | % (0 - 100) | |
| * | Residual fuel oil | World Bank 2007- Introduction to Oil and Gas | global: all () | 0 | % (0 - 100) | This fuel is not used for cooking. |
| * | Solar | Pohekar & Ramachandran 2004 - Multi-criteria evaluation of cooking energy alternatives for promoting parabolic solar cooker in India | India : All () | 57.5 | % (0 - 100) | This is the average of the range (55-60%) of thermal efficiency given for a parabolic solar cooker (PSC). |
| * | Steam | Assumed | New York City: Urban Area () | 0 | % (0 - 100) | Although there are commercial steam cookers, typically they use another fuel (like natural gas or electricity) to generate steam to cook the food. For example, http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=find_a_product.showProductGroup&pgw_code=COC. |
| * | Wind | Assumed | New York City: Urban Area () | 0 | % (0 - 100) | |
| * | Wood and other biomass | Ballard-Tremeer et al. 1996- Comparison of Five Rural, Wood-Burning Cooking Devices: Efficiencies and Emissions | South Africa: rural (1996) | 14 | % (0 - 100) | This value represents the efficiency of wood for cooking over an open fire. |
| Wood and other biomass | Ballard-Tremeer et al. 1996- Comparison of Five Rural, Wood-Burning Cooking Devices: Efficiencies and Emissions | South Africa: rural (1996) | 24 | % (0 - 100) | This value represents the efficiency of wood for cooking using a two-pot ceramic stove. |