Solar cookers for outdoors and indoors

A.M.A. Khalifa, M.M.A. Taha and M. Akyurt

Energy, 1985, vol. 10, issue 7, 819-829

Abstract: The solar cooking process has been investigated to develop safe, simple, portable, and reliable solar cookers. The concept of insulated and vapor-tight pots has been introduced and applied to oven, point-focus and heat-pipe cookers. A new, flat-plate cooker with heat pipes has been developed. It requires no tracking and allows cooking to be done in the shade or indoors. Also, a novel-portable cooker, the Mina Oven, featuring a vapor-tight pot and an integral collector with reflector flaps, has been constructed and tested. A second portable cooker that has been developed is the Arafa Cooker, which comprises a parabolic dish focused at a glazed and insulated receiver. Experiments indicated that all cookers yielded satisfactory performance, with cooking times of 25–45 min per kg of food per m2 of solar collection area while operating from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(85)90115-X

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