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Thermal Energy Storage Using Phase Change Materials: An Overview
Published in Amritanshu Shukla, Atul Sharma, Pascal Henry Biwolé, Latent Heat-Based Thermal Energy Storage Systems, 2020
Abhishek Anand, Amritanshu Shukla, Atul Sharma
A solar cooker is a device that utilizes the solar energy to cook the food in a daytime. But its use is limited due to no sunlight in the evening and night time. That’s why solar cooker cannot cook the food in the late evening. That drawback can be solved by the storage unit associated within a solar cooker. Therefore, in this section, an attempt has been taken to summarize the investigation of the solar cooking system incorporating with PCMs.
Thermal Energy: Solar Technologies
Published in Brian D. Fath, Sven E. Jørgensen, Megan Cole, Managing Air Quality and Energy Systems, 2020
A solar cooker or solar oven harnesses solar energy to cook food. The solar cooker was first developed by a Swiss scientist Horace de Saussure in 1767.[7] Solar cookers are now being used in many countries across the world, especially in remote areas of poor countries. Solar cookers accomplish free cooking with environment friendliness as they only capitalize solar energy. Solar cooking can be very helpful in reducing the deforestation and pollution that originate from consumption of wood, and animal and agricultural residues for cooking in remote areas that lack access to electricity and gas. Solar cookers are capable of performing various types of cooking phenomena, i.e., frying, baking, and boiling. The maximum achievable temperature depends on the intensity of the available solar radiation and the design and size of the solar cooker. Solar cookers come in a wide range of designs, which can be categorized under the following three major types.
Thermal Energy Storage Systems for Solar Applications
Published in Eduardo Rincón-Mejía, Alejandro de las Heras, Sustainable Energy Technologies, 2017
Aran Solé, Alvaro de Gracia, Luisa F. Cabeza
The solar cooker can offer a viable option in the domestic sector to reduce the use of fuel and wood, especially in developing hot climatic countries (Li et al., 2016). The intermittency of solar radiation limits the application of solar cookers in cloudy conditions or evenings unless TES is integrated (Figure 10.8). Both sensible and latent TES units have been investigated for application in solar cookers. Regarding the sensible heat storage systems, different designs and materials have been explored such as pebbles (Schwarzer et al., 2003), used engine oil (Nahar, 2003), and sand (Ramadan et al., 1988). The use of PCM in solar cookers got the attention of the scientific community as it reduces the volume of storage, delivering the stored heat at a given temperature. Sharma et al. (2000) recommend that the melting temperature of the PCM should be between 105°C and 110°C.
Binary salt phase change material for concentrated solar cooker: storage and usages
Published in Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, 2022
C.V. Papade, A.B. Kanase-Patil
Energy is measured as a key negotiator in the cohort of capital and a noteworthy aspect of monetary growth (Schwarzer and Vieira da Silva 2003). India is a country where most of the people belong to the rural area dependent on the conventional energy for cooking (S. D. Sharma et al. 2000). For that, non-conventional energy emerges as an effective solution (Woh 2010). A solar cooker is a device that uses solar energy to cook environment-friendly without fuel consumption (Obaid et al. 2013). There are different types of solar cooker systems are available in the market such as box type, concentrating type (Liu, Saman, and Bruno 2012), etc. However, the biggest disadvantage of such a system is that solar cookers cannot be used at night or in cloudy conditions. (Karunamurthy, Murugumohankumar, and Suresh 2012). So, there is a need of saving the solar energy to use in the off-period. This is achieved by using the PCM with additional energy-storing than the sensible heat-storing materials (Papade and Kanase-Patil 2021).
Energy and exergy based study on a box type solar cooker coupled with a Fresnel lens magnifier
Published in International Journal of Green Energy, 2023
Gulsavin Guruprasad Engoor, S. Shanmugam, A. R. Veerappan
The standard of living in a community is greatly improved by solar cookers, as they provide foods rich in nutrients and an environment-friendly atmosphere (Panwar, Kaushik, and Kothari 2012). There are different varieties of solar cookers to meet the needs of the society, out of which box-type solar cookers play a prominent role in meeting the community and domestic requirements (Nahar 2001). The great demerit associated with the BTSC is its slow heating. The time to cook food is more when compared to the other solar cookers. However, the performance of these cookers is much better in harsh conditions of high heat loss, low ambient temperature, and cloudy days than the other category of solar cookers (Funk and Larson 1998).
Life cycle assessment analysis, embodied energy evaluation and economic aspect study of double mirror reflector box type solar cooker for NEH region of Sikkim
Published in International Journal of Green Energy, 2022
Bivek Chakma, Lenjachung Serto, Sudhir Kharpude, Pradip Narale, Mahendra Singh Seveda
Sun being a free of cost source of energy utilized and which does not need any other fuel, solar cooker is promoted as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuel and biomass-based cooking in India and other developing countries. (Aremu and Akinoso 2013; Cuce and Cuce 2013; Jain et al. 2010; Muthusivagami, Velraj, and Sethumadhavan 2010; Panchal, Patel, and Chaudhary 2019) The sustainability of the use of solar cookers has been paid little attention to as it may provide an environmentally and economically viable alternatives to the current fuel options. The 3E’s, i.e., environmental, economic, and energetic viability of every single device needs to be verified for claiming any device is sustainable or not?