Proposal of a non-linear curve for reporting the performance of solar cookers

Celestino Rodrigues Ruivo, Xabier Apaolaza-Pagoaga, Gianluca Coccia and Antonio Carrillo-Andrés

Renewable Energy, 2022, vol. 191, issue C, 110-121

Abstract: Performance parameters of solar cookers have conventionally been determined by assuming a linear trend between the cooker power and the difference between load temperature and ambient air temperature. This approach may not be convenient for some solar cooker designs. In the present work, the suitability of a non-linear regression derived from fitting the measured load temperature to a second order exponential polynomial was investigated and compared with the linear regression. Both regressions were compared with the corresponding experimental curves of a panel cooker and a box cooker. In the case of the panel cooker, the linear trend of the experimental plot was confirmed over a large period of the conducted test. Minor deviations from the experimental data were observed only at the beginning and at the end of the test. On the contrary, in the box solar cooker, significant deviations between the linear regression plot and the experimental points were observed, while smaller deviations were obtained using the non-linear regression. Thus, the proposed method can be seen as a promising approach that should be considered when updating the existing procedures for testing and reporting the performance of solar cookers.

Keywords: Solar cookers; Experimental test; Linear performance curve; Non-linear performance curve; Performance evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2022.04.026

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