Experimental Study on Solar Cooker Using Phase Change Materials

• Published in: Applied Mechanics and Materials Vol. 766-767; no. Advances in Materials and Manufacturing; pp. 463 - 467
• Main Authors: Kanimozhi, B., Kumar, Sandeep, Sanandharya, Kumar, Anand, Sumit
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Zurich Trans Tech Publications Ltd 01.06.2015
• Subjects: Boiling; Coconut oil; Cookers; Cooking; Foods; Heating; Phase change materials; Solanum tuberosum; Solar energy; Phase Change Materials; Solar Cooker; Coconut Oil; Concentrating Lens
• ISBN: 3038354759; 9783038354758
• ISSN: 1660-9336; 1662-7482; 1662-7482
• DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.766-767.463

The main objective of our project is to conserve the available solar energy and improve its utilization with the help of phase change material; here we have absorbed solar energy to prepare food especially for cooking rice, boiling potatoes and eggs. The use of PCM in the solar cooker has improved its efficiency over conventional solar cooker and cooking food hot in off sunshine hours. It is being eco-friendly and other than that it save fuel, gas, coal which are exhaustible source of energy. In the present article some of different phase change materials are studied for solar cooking and among them Coconut Oil (commercial grade) is found to be a good latent heat storage which is experimentally tested in a simple box type solar cooker and the comparison is made with and without PCM.Key word: solar cooker, coconut oil, concentrating lens, phase change materials.