Enabling sustainable energy access in decentralized sectors and communities: A proposal for opto-thermal analysis for rating community solar cookers

Yasser Aldali, Basim Belgasim, Atul A. Sagade, Mohammed A. BinNasir, Hamad Alhossdy and Mahmood Abdelhadi

Energy, 2025, vol. 314, issue C

Abstract: Community solar cookers (CSCs) hold significant promise for addressing energy poverty and promoting sustainable development. However, existing methods for evaluating CSCs performance are primarily reported in low-temperature applications. This study addresses this gap by proposing a Cooker Opto-Thermal Ratio (COR) based performance evaluation approach for CSCs operating at intermediate temperatures (120–300 °C) for the first time. The big parabolic dish concentrating solar collector (3.801 m2 aperture area) acts as a CSC, which holds a cooking load (test fluid) of ∼13 kg in a cooking pot.

Keywords: Community solar cookers; Solar concentrators; Clean energy access; Rating and grading of solar cookers; Energy poverty; Sustainable development goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2024.134194

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