Design and Development of Concentrated Solar Cooker with Parabolic Dish Concentrator

Abstract

Renewable source is a green system for power generation without any impact on environment. In recent trends, the applied solar energy devices become more popular near couple of decades. The main objective of the current research is to design and develop a concentrated solar cooker with a parabolic dish concentrator system at cheaper cost in order to save the environment by preventing burning of fossil fuel for cooking food. A parabolic solar concentrated cooker with capacity of cooking 645 g of rice in 5 h at peak solar has been proposed. The thermal efficiency of the cooking system has been evaluated and performance was studied in Visakhapatnam geographical location in southeast India. The experimentation is done in normal clear sky atmosphere on dated February 27, 2019, in the area of Visakhapatnam located in latitude 17.68° N, 83.2185° E. The cooking procedure has been done in three cycles from 9.30 am to 3.30 pm.