An investigation on the performance of microcontroller based solar cooker using PV evacuated tubes nichrome coil ZAE coating with an extension of energy storage materials

Abstract

Utilization of LPG and biomass for cooking led to health issues due newlineto toxic fumes and suspended particles. An indispensable solution and newlinereplacement for the usage of biomass made the researchers to develop cooking newlinestoves with clean technology. Significantly, solar cooking is the only available newlineclean technology in the present era. It is affordable, clean and low-cost newlinetechnology which makes major impact in global implications with less newlineconsumption of biomass. newlineMany designs of solar cooker have been designed, fabricated and newlinetested by various researchers throughout the globe and inferences have been newlinedocumented. Though the technology is viable for clean cooking; there are some newlineinconveniences such as less thermal efficiency of the system. The primary newlineobjective of the present work is to investigate the feasibility of integrating the newlineMicrocontroller PIC16F877A, PV panel, battery, evacuated tubes, nichrome newlineheating coil, ZAE coating and energy storage material into solar cooker to newlineanalyse the thermal efficiency of the proposed solar cooking system. newline