Numerical study on the effect of configuration of a simple box solar cooker for boiling water

• Published in: IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering Vol. 308; no. 1; pp. 12028 - 12034
• Main Author: Ambarita, H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 01.02.2018
• ISSN: 1757-8981; 1757-899X
• DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/308/1/012028

In this work, a numerical study is carried out to investigate the effect of configuration of a simple box solar cooker. In order to validate the numerical results, a simple a simple solar box cooker with absorber area of 0.835 m × 0.835 m is designed and fabricated. The solar box cooker is employed to boil water by exposing to the solar radiation in Medan city of Indonesia. In the numerical method, a set of transient governing equations are developed. The governing equations are solved using forward time step marching technique. The main objective is to explore the effect of double glasses cover, dimensions of the cooking vessel, and depth of the box cooker to the performance of the solar box cooker. The results show that the experimental and numerical results show good agreement. The performance of the solar box cooker strongly affected by the distance of the double glass cover, the solar cooker depth, and the solar collector length.