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Title: Experimental investigation and numerical simulation of solar cooker
Researcher: Krishnan V K
Guide(s): Balusamy T
Keywords: Engineering and Technology
Engineering
Engineering Mechanical
solar cooker
numerical simulation
University: Anna University
Completed Date: 2019
Abstract: Now a day s, Solar cooking is an inevitable source of energy harvesting due to fuel crisis throughout the world. Countries like India are looking for an alternate source of energy due to high population and also the demand for the fuel. The need of thermal energy for cooking in India is huge and people have spent a large amount of thermal energy for cooking. Solar energy is a kind of energy available at free of cost and abundant across the world. A suitable harvesting methodology and a cooking system is to identify in order to cope up the demand for fuels for cooking foods. People in Asian and allied countries already started to harvest the solar energy in a huge way by means of many methods such as solar collectors of various designs like parabolic, cylindrical, etc., and adopted various cooking systems like cooking vessels of different models with suitable heat transfer enhancement in order to improve the efficiency. The efficiency of the solar collector plays a vital role in harvesting the free energy effectively; meanwhile the cooking vessels also play a major role in utilizing the heat energy to cook the food efficiently. In this research work, an attempt has been made to design and fabricate two different models of solar collecting systems such as Box type and Parabolic type. Attempt was also made to investigate the heat transfer enhancement by designing cooking vessels with appropriate heat transfer enhancer such as fins, cavity and surface dimples. Experiments were conducted for different days and months of the year 2016 in order to prove that the designed and tested solar cooking systems are efficiently cooking throughout the year in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India with geographical locations of11.669437°N, 78.140865°E and at an average elevation of 278 m (912 ft) newline
Pagination: xvi, 114p.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10603/308807
Appears in Departments:Department of Mechanical Engineering

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