In the present work, an attempt has been made to design and test the performance of box type solar cooker with cooking pots of different materials filled with latent heat energy storage mediums to perform the cooking in sun shine and off sun - shine conditions. | Design and testing of cooking vessels of solar box cooker for evening cooking International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Technology IJMET Volume 10 Issue 03 March 2019 . Article ID IJMET_10_04_196 Available online at http ijmet JType IJMET amp VType 10 amp IType 3 ISSN Print 0976-6340 and ISSN Online 0976-6359 IAEME Publication Scopus Indexed DESIGN AND TESTING OF COOKING VESSELS OF SOLAR BOX COOKER FOR EVENING COOKING Ajeet Kumar Rai and Sanjay Kumar Srivastava Mechanical Engineering Department VIAET SHUATS Prayagraj 211007 . India ABSTRACT In the present work an attempt has been made to design and test the performance of box type solar cooker with cooking pots of different materials filled with latent heat energy storage mediums to perform the cooking in sun shine and off sun - shine conditions. The box type solar cookers are not common in use due to limited availability of solar energy. Latent heat energy storage materials are used to store solar energy available in day time to use in evening and off sunshine hours. Paraffin wax is used as energy storage material PCM to improve the performance of the system in off sunshine conditions. PCM filled aluminium pots are suitable for day time cooking. It is observed from full load test that the water temperature in PCM filled steel pots are maintained above 950C for more than 3 hours than PCM filled aluminium pots in off sunshine conditions. Keywords Box Type solar cooker Latent heat energy storage cooking vessel. Cite this Article Ajeet Kumar Rai and Sanjay Kumar Srivastava Design and Testing of Cooking Vessels of Solar Box Cooker for Evening Cooking International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Technology 10 3 2019 pp. 1931-1938. http IJMET JType IJMET amp VType 10 amp IType 3 1. INTRODUCTION Energy is essential to sustain life on the earth. Energy is available in various forms on the earth. A major amount of total available energy is .
