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An improved solar cooker
Author(s) -
Malhotra K. S.,
Nahar N. M.,
Rao B. V. Ramana
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
international journal of energy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.808
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1099-114X
pISSN - 0363-907X
DOI - 10.1002/er.4440060303
Subject(s) - cooker , boiling , environmental science , materials science , waste management , engineering , chemistry , mechanical engineering , organic chemistry
An improved hot box type solar cooker (SC‐2) has been designed, developed and tested. It is an improvement on the solar cooker SC‐1 earlier developed at the institute. The cooking chamber has properly been optimized for cooking the food for a family of five persons. A rubber gasket has been provided at the boundary of the openable door to prevent the leakage of hot air, thus increasing the pressure in the cooking chamber. Different cooking trials like boiling, roasting and baking were successfully conducted and the cooker was found useful from 8.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m., even during a winter month. The efficiency of the cooker was found to be 41.2 per cent.