Novel Design of Solar Cooker with Bottom Feed

Abstract:

Efforts for harnessing solar energy were made many decades ago. Solar cooking was opted worldwide as a convenient and economical method to cook food. Since then, several investigators have studied various aspects of solar cooking. The studies on solar cookers can be broadly classified into the following categories: (a) design, fabrication and testing of new types of solar cookers, (b) methods of boosting the solar energy on the cooker aperture using booster mirrors,(c) energy storage types of cookers, for use indoors and also during off sunshine periods, (d) tests on different types of cooking vessels and (e) modeling and simulation techniques.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 592-594)
• Pages: 2391-2395
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.592-594.2391
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: Sanyam Saxena*, Akhil Muralidharan
• Keywords: Bottom Feed, Box Type Solar Cooker, Central Cylindrical Cavity, Conventional Cylindrical Vessel, Cooking Cycle, Energy Utilization, Fins, Increased Efficiency

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