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: Received: 17 October 2022 / Approved: 18 October 2022 / Online: 18 October 2022 (03:21:26 CEST)
How to cite:
Safdar, I.; Zahid, M.; Mian Qaisar, S.; Waqar, A.; Tag Eldin, E.; Ilahi, T.; Zahid, T.; Alsharabi, N. A Comprehensive Empirical Analysis on Performance Assessment of Different Solar Cookers. Preprints2022, 2022100244. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202210.0244.v1
Safdar, I.; Zahid, M.; Mian Qaisar, S.; Waqar, A.; Tag Eldin, E.; Ilahi, T.; Zahid, T.; Alsharabi, N. A Comprehensive Empirical Analysis on Performance Assessment of Different Solar Cookers. Preprints 2022, 2022100244. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202210.0244.v1
Safdar, I.; Zahid, M.; Mian Qaisar, S.; Waqar, A.; Tag Eldin, E.; Ilahi, T.; Zahid, T.; Alsharabi, N. A Comprehensive Empirical Analysis on Performance Assessment of Different Solar Cookers. Preprints2022, 2022100244. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202210.0244.v1
APA Style
Safdar, I., Zahid, M., Mian Qaisar, S., Waqar, A., Tag Eldin, E., Ilahi, T., Zahid, T., & Alsharabi, N. (2022). A Comprehensive Empirical Analysis on Performance Assessment of Different Solar Cookers. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202210.0244.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Safdar, I., Tausif Zahid and Naif Alsharabi. 2022 "A Comprehensive Empirical Analysis on Performance Assessment of Different Solar Cookers" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202210.0244.v1
Abstract
The environmental impact and associated health issues have been seen as a significant global challenge. Efforts have been made to make solar cookers efficient to reduce the health risk and environmental impact of traditional cooking energy supplies used in rural areas. The solar cookers effectiveness for cooking purposes must be assessed in a specific area before installation. In essence, this paper assesses the experimental efficiency of German Scheffler, small mirror pieces, and aluminum foil based solar cookers. The solar cookers performances are evaluated at international standards by analyzing the figure of merits such as standard cooking power, sensible heating time, and exergy efficiency by using 1.7652 kg water and 1-liter oil as a heating material. The regression analysis is also performed to observe experimental data compliance with regression line. The time required to attain a water temperature of 95˚C by German Scheffler and small mirror pieces is 25 min and 1 hour with their exergy efficiency of 48.51% and 19.16% respectively, while the aluminum foil solar cooker achieves maximum water temperature of 74˚C within 2 hours and 5 minutes with 13.47% exergy efficiency. Similarly, the highest oil temperature of 275˚C is observed for the German Scheffler solar cooker. From experimental and regression results, it is revealed that German Scheffler possesses more cooking power relative to other solar cookers and their performances are highly dependent on following factors such as solar radiations, ambient temperature, environment (dust particles concentration and wind speed), radiation reflective material, aperture area, and heat losses respectively.
Keywords
Cooking power; Solar energy; Solar radiations; Sun tracking.; Emperical Analysis
Subject
Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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