Volume : IX, Issue : VI, June - 2019

To design and development of a parabolic solar cooker for cooking

S. N. Dalvi, S. R. Navale

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There are limitations on conventional energy sources like fossil fuel, coal oil and natural gas. The prices of conventional energy sources are surprisingly high. Therefore it is necessary to search alternative energy sources. The alternative energy sources must be non polluted, low cost, available to all and renewable one. The solar energy is renewable and it is free of cost. Most of part of energy goes for cooking in India. Fuel like firewood, dung cakes, coal, kerosene and agricultural waste are used. Everyone is suffering from energy crisis. The peoples of rural India are using conventional Chula. The Chula having very low efficiency (10 %) and also causes pollution. Most of people cannot find an adequate amount of gas to cook. To avoid this, efforts are being made to replace our existing cooking fuel with renewable energy source. As a result, use of solar parabolic cooker is a superior initiative. The crucial objective of designing the parabolic solar cooker is that it has many benefits as compare to other designs. Less time for cooking, high efficiency and low cost are few advantages of parabolic solar cooker. For that reason we designed, built and developed a low cost solar parabolic cooker from locally available material on the terrace of college building (Sangamner College). Parabolic solar cooker based on the principle of reflection and concentration of the solar radiations. The cooking of samples such Moong dal and Rice are tested. The cooked quality of moong dal and rice is good. Cooking is uniform and proper. Maximum temperature achieved at zenith position. The results obtained shows that the efficiency of parabolic concentrator for rice is 47.09% and for mug dal it is 35.08%

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TO DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A PARABOLIC SOLAR COOKER FOR COOKING, S.N. Dalvi, S.R. Navale INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-6 | June-2019

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