USING THERMAL CONCENTRATOR FOR PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT OF SOLAR BOX COOKER

Abdel-Salam, M. F.; Atia, M. F.

doi:10.21608/mjae.2018.96054

USING THERMAL CONCENTRATOR FOR PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT OF SOLAR BOX COOKER

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

M. F. Abdel-Salam ¹
M. F. Atia ²

¹ Assist. Prof. of Agric. Eng. Dept., Fac. of Agric., Ain Shams University, Egypt.

² Lecturer of Agric. Eng. Dept., Fac. of Agric., Ain Shams University, Egypt.

10.21608/mjae.2018.96054

Abstract

The study aims to construct, develop and evaluate the performance of solar box cooker viz non-modified and modified. A box-type solar cooker was constructed, and the cooker was supplied with a solar concentrator with dual tracking system to improve the gained heat. The tests have been carried out in Shubra El-Kheima, Egypt (Latitude 30 ^o 11’ N, Longitude 31^o 24’ E). The solar cookers were not loaded, and loaded with 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 liter of water. The modified box was filled with different volumes of rice and 210 g of biscuit. The thermal performance was evaluated by using first figure of merit F1, second figure of merit F2 and energy efficiency. The calculated values of F1 was 0.108 and 0.087 oC.m2/W for modified and non-modified cooker, respectively. The value of F2 was 0.262 and 0.089 for modified and non-modified cooker, respectively. The modified cooker achieved a higher temperature than the non- modified cooker by about 23% at the maximum water mass of 2 l. The total required time was about 255 min for cooking a 1000 g of rice, and 90 min for baking a 210 g of biscuit. The cost of the modified cooker saves about 20.8 % of the operation cost of the traditional gas cooker. The maturity of cooking of solar-cooked rice and biscuit was checked, the values of hardness for cooked rice and baked biscuit was agreed with the references values.

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Main Subjects

Processing Engineering of Agricultural Products

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