Design, construction and testing of parabolic solar cooker for rural households and refugee camp

Ahmed, S.M. Masum; Al-Amin, Md.; Ahammed, Shakil; Ahmed, Foysal; Saleque, Ahmed Mortuza; Rahman, Md. Abdur

doi:10.1016/j.solener.2020.05.007

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“…Various components of the solar cooking system were designed using the following parameters (Stine and Diver, 1994;Sup et al, 2015;Hafez et al, 2016;González-Avilés et al, 2018;Babu et al, 2019;Noman et al, 2019;Ahmed et al, 2020). Parabolic concentrator's aperture area.…”

Section: Parabolic Concentratormentioning

confidence: 99%

Design, Fabrication, and Thermal Evaluation of a Solar Cooking System Integrated With Tracking Device and Sensible Heat Storage Materials

Komolafe

Okonkwo

2022

Front. Energy Res.

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Energy need for cooking in both the rural and urban areas all over the world is increasing every day as a result of an increase in population. The consequence of global warming due to the usage of fuels such as fossil fuel, firewood, and other biomass products for cooking necessitates innovative techniques that will improve the standard of living of people. In this study, the design, fabrication, and thermal evaluation of a solar cooking system integrated with an Arduino-based tracking device and sensible heat storage (SHS) materials was investigated. During the water boiling trials with black oil sensible material (BOSHSM), the obtained maximum temperatures for water, cooking box, and sensible heat storage material at 14:00 h when the solar radiation attained its peak value of 881.2 W/m2 were 64,52, and 54°C, respectively, while at 14:00 h with Black coated granite sensible heat storage material (BCGSHSM) at the solar radiation peak value of 890.4 W/m2, the maximum temperatures for water, cooking box, and sensible heat storage material were 73.5, 76, and 59°C, respectively. The maximum cooking power and thermal efficiency obtained from the water boiling trials were 48.4 and 56.4 W, and 31.6 and 35.8% respectively. Also, the results from the cooking of edibles revealed that the cooking power values ranged between 42.5 and 58.2, while that of efficiency ranged between 34.5 and 40.3% respectively. The maximum solar radiation during the cooking trial period was 986, 975, 956, and 953 W/m2. In general, from the results, the developed solar cooking system is a viable alternative to cooking with traditional/open burning of wood or other biomass products that pose a serious environmental and health-related threat to the people living in developing countries.

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Section: Parabolic Concentratormentioning

confidence: 99%

Design, Fabrication, and Thermal Evaluation of a Solar Cooking System Integrated With Tracking Device and Sensible Heat Storage Materials

Komolafe

Okonkwo

2022

Front. Energy Res.

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“…Solar concentrating cookers have also been used for intermediate to high-temperature applications using different test fluids [25,26,27,28,29]. However, these studies do not consider the incorporation of thermal energy storage into these cookers for off-shine cooking.…”

Section: Concentrating Solar Cookersmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of parabolic solar cookers with thermal energy storage

Lentswe¹,

Mawire²,

Owusu³

et al. 2021

Heliyon

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Biomass and fossil fuels are mostly used in rural areas of developing countries for cooking. These energy resources have negative impacts on the environment and human health mainly due to deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions. A cleaner and environmentally-friendly form of cooking is solar cooking using the sun's energy. Parabolic solar cookers perform better than other solar cookers such as box solar cookers since higher temperatures are achieved in a shorter duration. These higher temperatures allow most types of cooking processes such as; boiling, frying, roasting, and baking to be possible. The major problem with most conventional solar cookers is that cooking is not possible during off-sunshine periods. Integrating solar cookers with thermal energy storage (TES) makes cooking during off-sunshine periods possible. This paper presents a comprehensive review of parabolic solar cookers with TES which is a sustainable cooking solution for developing countries. Previous work on both parabolic trough and parabolic dish solar cookers with TES is presented. Solar cookers with storage are classified according to the two main types of TES technologies which are; sensible heat thermal energy storage (SHTES) and latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES). The main conclusions of the review are that; parabolic dish solar cookers with TES are more common than parabolic trough cookers, more studies have been done using latent heat storage as compared to sensible heat storage, limited modelling work has been presented, most of the parabolic cookers used aluminum sheets as the reflecting material, large scale experimental studies are limited and fewer studies tackled the techno-economic and socio-economic aspects. The review also highlights research gaps on parabolic solar cookers with TES in terms of the modelling, combined TES (sensible and latent heat), different reflector materials, large-scale experimental setups, and techno-economic and socio-economic analyses. Other important aspects to consider for parabolic solar cookers with TES include; the choice of sensible or latent heat storage materials, environmental impact, types of food to be cooked, and social acceptance.

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“…Lee and Rao constructed the three main types of solar cooker and discovered that the parabolic solar cooker achieved the highest temperature at 86.5°C. Moreover, different technologies regarding parabolic solar cookers are being developed throughout the world [52][53][54][55].…”

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Design, Construction, and Evaluation of the Performance of Dual-Axis Sun Trucker Parabolic Solar Cooker and Comparison of Cooker

Tibebu

Hailu

2021

Journal of Renewable Energy

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Energy demand is increasing due to population increment and industrialization. To meet this energy demand, technologies that use renewable energy such as solar energy are being developed. A parabolic solar cooker is one of the main solar cookers, which can cook food and boil water at a high temperature within a short period. This study aimed to design, construct, and evaluate the performance of the constructed parabolic solar cookers. Moreover, this study aimed to compare the constructed cooker with firewood, charcoal, kerosene, and electricity in terms of cooking time and energy cost. The cooker was constructed using different materials such as old satellite dishes, tyres, steel, and aluminum foil. The aperture diameter, aperture area, receiver diameter, receiver area, depth of the parabola, focal length, rim angle, circumference of the circle, surface area, length of the circumference, and concentration of the cooker were 1.8 m, 2.54 m2, 0.16 m, 0.02 m2, 0.3 m, 0.67 m, 67.38°, 5.76 m, 2.81 m2, 5.76 m, and 123.46, respectively. The cooker can track the sun from north to south and from east to west. The performance of the cooker was evaluated by calculating the efficiency and power. The output energy, input energy, and average upcoming solar radiation of the constructed parabolic solar cooker were 0.182 kW/m2, 1.691 kW/m2, and 0.665 kW/m2, respectively. The efficiency and power of the cooker were 10.75% and 0.3 kW/hr, respectively. The constructed parabolic solar cooker relatively showed better performance in cooking different foods. A family, which has five members, was considered to compare the constructed cooker with other fuels in terms of energy cost of cooking. Since the parabolic solar cooker does not have any energy cost, it can save the energy cost of cooking foods. Therefore, parabolic solar cookers have a great advantage for developing countries including Ethiopia.

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Design, construction and testing of parabolic solar cooker for rural households and refugee camp

Cited by 62 publications

References 13 publications

Design, Fabrication, and Thermal Evaluation of a Solar Cooking System Integrated With Tracking Device and Sensible Heat Storage Materials

Design, Fabrication, and Thermal Evaluation of a Solar Cooking System Integrated With Tracking Device and Sensible Heat Storage Materials

A review of parabolic solar cookers with thermal energy storage

Design, Construction, and Evaluation of the Performance of Dual-Axis Sun Trucker Parabolic Solar Cooker and Comparison of Cooker

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