Cooking using biomass, which is commonly practiced in developing countries, causes rampant deforestation and exposure to emission. Hence, utilization of solar energy for cooking is a green solution. As solar radiation is not available at every hour of the day, thermal storage is essential for availing thermal energy at required time of use. erefore, this work investigates the e ciency of solar cooker with parabolic concentrating collector integrated with thermal storage using 1D nite di erence computational model. A cook stove on packed pebble bed thermal storage having 0.3 m diameter and 0.9 m height and a storage capacity of 40.1 MJ of energy during a clear day and 12.85 MJ energy was simulated for charging and discharging (cooking), under Addis Ababa climatic condition for days, with highest and lowest solar irradiance and thermal storage e ciency of 66.7%, cooker thermal e ciency of 45% during discharging of heat by forced convection, and 41% during discharging of heat by conduction, were obtained for the day with the highest solar irradiance. e overall e ciency of the cook stove with thermal storage was 30% and 22% for discharging by forced convection and conduction, respectively. For the day with lowest beam solar irradiance, the storage, thermal and overall e ciencies were 70.9%, 31.1% and 22.0%, respectively. Hence, it can be concluded that solar concentrating cookers with thermal storage can have an overall cooking e ciency between 22% and 30% on a clear sky day when the Sun is overhead in tropical areas.
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