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A review of vacuum tube based solar cookers with the experimental determination of energy and exergy efficiencies of a single vacuum tube based prototype

Farooqui, Suhail Zaki - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 31 (2014) C, pp. 439-445

Solar cookers may be generally classified into direct and indirect types. The direct types include the box type and … Scheffer type solar cookers. Results have been compared to a number of other solar cooker types. …

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Development of cooking sector in rural areas in India—A review

Bansal, Mohit; Saini, R.P.; Khatod, D.K. - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 17 (2013) C, pp. 44-53

Energy for cooking is a major concern of consumers and policy makers in India. Most of the cooking in rural India is done using biomass. Traditional biomass stoves cause significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions due to formation of products of incomplete combustion. As far as urban population...

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An exergy based unified test protocol for solar cookers of different geometries

Kumar, Naveen; Vishwanath, G.; Gupta, Anurag - In: Renewable Energy 44 (2012) C, pp. 457-462

It is beneficial for the consumer to have solar cookers of various varieties in terms of geometrical designs … parameters can lead to development of unified test protocol for solar cookers of diversified designs. … cookers irrespective of their geometrical construction. In this paper, four exergy based parameters, are proposed for solar …

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Multi-criteria evaluation of cooking devices with special reference to utility of parabolic solar cooker (PSC) in India

Pohekar, S.D.; Ramachandran, M. - In: Energy 31 (2006) 8, pp. 1215-1227

Multi-criteria decision making is an emerging technique for evaluation and policy formulation for renewable energy technology promotion. In this paper, the case of the parabolic solar cooker (PSC), which is a relatively recent innovation, is evaluated with respect to eight prevalent domestic...

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Using renewable energy technologies for domestic cooking in India: a methodology for potential estimation

Purohit, P; Kumar, A; Rana, S; Kandpal, T.C - In: Renewable Energy 26 (2002) 2, pp. 235-246

An attempt has been made to estimate the potential of using biogas plants, solar cookers and improved cookstoves for … is around 29 million. The potential of improved cookstoves is estimated at about 90 million and that of solar cookers is …

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Design, development and testing of a double reflector hot box solar cooker with a transparent insulation material

Nahar, N.M - In: Renewable Energy 23 (2001) 2, pp. 167-179

solar cookers in developing countries. …

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Solar thermal applications in the West Indies

Headley, Oliver St.C. - In: Renewable Energy 15 (1998) 1, pp. 257-263

have also been deployed and solar collectors have been used to power solar cookers and adsorption chillers. Compound …

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