Thermal performance enhancement on a box-type solar cooker using a triangular fin over a conventional cooking pot

Goyal, Ravi Kumar; Eswaramoorthy, M.

doi:10.1016/j.solener.2023.03.053

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“…12 The second reason is subject to development and improvement, which prompted many researchers to search and investigate to raise the performance of SBC. In addition to the traditional method of improving the performance of SBC by adding a reflector(s), the performance of SBC is also improved by modifying the cooking pot [13][14][15][16][17] or adding materials to the inside of the cooker. [18][19][20][21][22][23] The performance of SBC is evaluated by several parameters, including Performance Characteristics, First and Second figures of merit, Time Boiling, Parameter Index, Standard Cooking Power, cooker optothermal ratio (COR), Thermal efficiency, and Exergy efficiency.…”

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Enhancement the solar box cooker performance using steel fibers

Ibrahim,

Kadhim,

Ali

2024

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The use of fossil fuel and wood for cooking poses health, environmental, and economic challenges, especially with the growing population. This has led to an increase in the trend towards the use of clean and sustainable cooking sources, including solar cookers. This experimental study aims to contribute by enhancing the performance of a solar box cooker (SBC) according to the concept of porous media via adding steel fibers inside the box as a modified SBC and comparing it with a conventional SBC. The stagnation test to determine the first figure of merit and the load test to determine the second figure of merit, standard boiling time, and cooker optothermal ratio were conducted under the outdoor conditions of Baghdad city. Also, an energy and exergy efficiency analysis, and calculating the rate of heat loss by three water loads heating and cooling tests. The results revealed that the modified SBC has a higher thermal performance than the conventional SBC.

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