فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Solar energy is the cleanest way of cooking food using a solar cooker. But it is inefficient, takes a long time to cook, relies on the weather, doesn't transmit heat well, has a restricted temperature range, is bulky, degrades with time, needs maintenance, and is not very popular with users. Numerous researchers devised new ways to make box-shaped solar cookers to overcome these difficulties and tested them. Henceforth, it is hard to find the latest, most energy-efficient design of a box-shaped solar cooker so that it can be improved further to bring it to the commercial level. This work presents a state-of-the-art review of box-type solar cookers to find the most energy-efficient design. Based on this review, a box-type solar cooker with energy storage is investigated as the best-performing design with figures of merit F1=0.23 and F2=0.27. The size of the absorber plate is the most crucial factor in figuring out how much a solar cooker will cost. To deal with this difficulty, a regression equation has been estimated to be "Absorber area (sq. m) = -1.134 + 0.00227 Max temperature (°C) + 0.0313 Cooking mass (kg) + 0.001541 Solar Irradiation (W per sq. m)."