Development of low cost reflective panel solar cooker

The paper presents the development and testing of low cost reflective panel type solar cooker. The construction of the base panel type cooker utilizes low cost materials. Two designs of the panel type cooker are tested vis-& agrave;-vis conventional box type cooker. Temperatures are measured in the solar cooker at various points and are compared with the box type solar cooker. The test results for the developed panel type cooker exhibit lower temperatures in the cooking pots as compared to that attained in the box type cooker. Nonetheless, with fewer modifications the panel type cooker can prove to be viable and low cost competitor to the available box type cookers. (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the International Conference on Advances in Materials Research-2019.

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The paper presents the development and testing of a low-cost reflective panel type solar cooker. The results show that the panel type cooker exhibits slightly lower temperatures in the cooking pots compared to the box type cooker, but with fewer modifications, it can become a low-cost competitor to the box type cooker.