Solar cooking innovations, their appropriateness, and viability

A Saxena, B Norton, V Goel, DB Singh - Environmental Science and …, 2022 - Springer
The successful use of solar energy for cooking requires the systems adopted not only to
have technical attributes that conveniently address specific cooking requirements but also …

Thermo-physical properties of heat storage material required for effective heat storage and heat transfer enhancement techniques for the solar cooking applications

RK Goyal - Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 2023 - Elsevier
An increase in population needs more hydrocarbon fuel (ie, LPG, coal, or firewood) for the
cooking of food and process heat applications. Combustion of hydrocarbon fuels with air …

A fully analytical model of a box solar cooker with sensible thermal storage

S Verma, S Banerjee, R Das - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
A box-type solar cooker supplemented with a sensible heat storage medium (for nocturnal
cooking) has been analytically investigated. Unlike other available analytical studies where …

Optimum selection of phase change material for solar box cooker integrated with thermal energy storage unit using multi-criteria decision-making technique

BC Anilkumar, R Maniyeri, S Anish - Journal of Energy Storage, 2021 - Elsevier
Various thermal energy storage (TES) materials are used to increase the efficacy of solar
cooker in off-sun hours. For the past few decades, phase change materials (PCMs) used as …

An experimental comparative analysis of the appropriateness of different sensible heat storage materials for solar cooking

A Saxena, SK Joshi, P Gupta, V Tirth… - Journal of Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar energy is a significant energy source of outstanding sustainability, mainly used for
heating and power production. There are numerous energy storage materials through which …

Cooking performance assessment of a phase change material integrated hot box cooker

A Kumar, A Saxena, SD Pandey, A Gupta - Environmental Science and …, 2023 - Springer
Previous research on solar box cookers focusing on the bulk usage of energy storage
materials is a costly technique for performance enhancement. Bulk energy storage materials …

Thermal performance enhancement on a box-type solar cooker using a triangular fin over a conventional cooking pot

RK Goyal, M Eswaramoorthy - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The thermal performance of existing box-type solar cookers is limited and to improve the
performance many research works reported on modification of solar cooker sub-systems ie …

Experimental Investigation of Parabolic Dish Solar Collector using Nanofluids for Steam Cooking

A Bekele, S Dereje, V Pandey, IA Badruddin - Arabian Journal for Science …, 2024 - Springer
Environmental degradation, harmful emissions, and an increase in the prices of fuel and
electricity are driving factors for the need of renewable energy sources such as solar energy …

Advances in indoor cooking using solar energy with phase change material storage systems

S Balachandran, J Swaminathan - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
One of the key areas of the UN's sustainable development goals is growing affordable and
clean energy. Utilizing solar energy that is now accessible will significantly lessen the …

Box-Type Solar Cookers: An Overview of Technological Advancement, Energy, Environmental, and Economic Benefits

N Misra, A Anand, S Pandey, K Kant, A Shukla… - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Being one of the major energy consumers, cooking is a necessary part of daily life. Non
renewable cooking fuel sources, such as wood or cow dung cause hazardous pollution and …