A thermodynamic review on solar box type cookers

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3301-3318

  Saxena, Abhishek ^a   Varun, ^b   Pandey, S P ^c   Srivastav, G ^d  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering MIT   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c VIT Dadri   (India)

^d Ishan Institute of Technology   (India)

Author keywords

Cooking vessel; Heat energy; Performance; Solar box cooker; Solar oven

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; BOX TYPE SOLAR COOKER; CLIMATE CONDITION; COOKING PROCESS; FUEL SAVINGS; GLAZING SYSTEMS; HEAT ENERGY; PERFORMANCE; SOLAR BOX COOKER; SOLAR COOKERS; SOLAR COOKING; SOLAR OVEN;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; FUEL ECONOMY; GLAZES; HEAT STORAGE; OVENS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR HEATING; STOVES;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 79955911562     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2011.04.017     Document Type: Review

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