Box type solar cooker with thermal storage: an overview

Vishwakarma, Ajay; Sinha, Sunanda

doi:10.1007/s12667-022-00512-9

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“…The box solar cooker is the most common type of solar cooker produced for personal use (Kimambo, 2018;Vishwakarma and Sinha., 2022). It can be built from cardboard, wood, or plastic boxes, as shown in Figure 2 (Vengadesan et al, 2021).…”

Section: Box Solar Cookersmentioning

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A Solar Cooking Workshop for Low-Income Communities: A Social and Environmental Initiative

Silva

Araújo

et al. 2023

Rev. Bras. Geog. Fis.

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Brazil is a tropical country which has an average of 250 sunny days per year. Unfortunately, very little solar energy is used for both heating water and for food cooking with solar cookers. Traditional cooking process demands fuel consumption while solar cooking takes advantage of the abundant, free solar energy. This article proposes the use of affordable panel solar cookers, with a sustainable design, based on waste materials, such as cardboard and potato chips metallized plastic bags as alternative materials to commercial reflective aluminum foil or reflective plastic films. Our work is an example of the feasibility of simple, fast and low-cost solar cooking apparatus and techniques dissemination among underprivileged communities.

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Section: Box Solar Cookersmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Solar Cooking Workshop for Low-Income Communities: A Social and Environmental Initiative

Silva

Araújo

et al. 2023

Rev. Bras. Geog. Fis.

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“…In their study, solar cookers were categorized into three; (i) solar box cookers (ii) solar panel cooker (iii) solar parabolic cooker. Among all these types, solar box cooker is the most widely used solar cooker (18,19). Cooking with solar box cookers has gained much research interests, and it is a well-established solar cooking technique (20).…”

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Design, Construction, and Performance Testing of a Collapsible Parabolic Dish Solar Cooker for Temperature Control

Mwinisin,

Yeboah,

Annin

2024

ECS Trans.

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This paper proposes solar energy as a viable alternative to biomass fuels for cooking, introducing a collapsible parabolic solar cooker designed to regulate heat production. The collector is divided into three sectors, with a specific condition for effective convergence of reflected radiation. The total concentration ratio is 89.4, with the primary sector covering 42%, while sectors 2 and 3 occupy 29% each. In the analysis ASAE protocol was employed. The results obtained from the ASAE S580.1 test revealed a range of cooking power values, with a minimum of 215.5 W and a maximum of 280.9 W. The single measure of performance of the cooker was gauged at 234.17 W. Regarding the Standard Stagnation Temperature, it was observed that a reduction of the collector area by 0.343݉ଶ resulted in a temperature decrease of 59.5℃. The highest recorded SST for the entire solar cooker (when all three sectors were expanded) reached 279℃.

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“…An overview of box-type solar cooking with a heat storage unit based on earlier experimental and analytical research studies is reviewed and presented by Viswakarma and Sinha [21]. Panchal et al [22] developed the solar cooker to examine both the sensible and latent heat storage mediums.…”

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Conjugate Radiation and Convection Heat Transfer Analysis in Solar Cooker Cavity Using a Computational Approach

Sarangi

Sahoo

et al. 2023

Energies

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The heat loss caused by radiation and persistently laminar natural convection in a solar cooker cavity that has a rectangular cavity or a trapezoidal cavity are computationally explored in this paper. The hot bottom and the adiabatic side wall are both taken into account. Two possibilities are considered for the top wall: first, a cold wall, and, second, losses from wind-induced convection and radiation. The parameters of heat loss in various depth cavities have been investigated along with a variety of external heat transfer coefficient values above the glass surface were simulated. The emissivity of the bottom surface, the absolute temperature ratio, on heat loss from the considered geometries, are also calculated. Analysis of the cavity’s flow pattern and isotherms at different depths has been conducted, and it is discovered that the total rate of heat transfer from the top wall increases as the bottom wall’s emissivity, the absolute temperature ratio, the Rayleigh number, and the external Nusselt number all increase. While radiation heat transfer increases monotonically, convective heat transfer rates shift slightly as these values rise at different emissivities of the bottom, and the opposite occurs when Ra increases at the same emissivity. Furthermore, it has been discovered that as the aspect ratio of the cavity increases, the overall Nusselt number decreases. A trapezoidal cavity has a faster rate of heat transfer than a rectangular cavity for the same parameters. Generic empirical correlations were developed for the total average Nusselt number concerning all influencing parameters.

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Box type solar cooker with thermal storage: an overview

Cited by 6 publications

References 79 publications

A Solar Cooking Workshop for Low-Income Communities: A Social and Environmental Initiative

A Solar Cooking Workshop for Low-Income Communities: A Social and Environmental Initiative

Design, Construction, and Performance Testing of a Collapsible Parabolic Dish Solar Cooker for Temperature Control

Conjugate Radiation and Convection Heat Transfer Analysis in Solar Cooker Cavity Using a Computational Approach

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