Performance parameters, design considerations, social adoption, and computational techniques for solar box cooker development: current status and future possibilities

Abstract

Practical utility of solar cookers is on rise nowadays. However, due to certain technological challenges this is not catching very fast. Present review paper encompasses studies and future possibilities for solar box cooker research. Various aspects like thermal performance param-eters, various phases of designs improvements, social acceptability issues and computational methods of analysis have been discussed in relation to Solar box cookers so that technical difficulties may be minimized. This paper discusses about introduction to solar box cookers, advantages, disadvantages, various practical considerations that are key factors for any SBC. Further, there is a handsome discussion on the various computational techniques like Com-putational fluid dynamics, Artificial intelligence techniques, IoT etc. Introduction, review of applications till date, and future possibilities related to research using application of these computational techniques have been presented. Emphasis has been given to future possibili-ties for solar box cookers development so that it could be a well-accepted future technology.

Keywords

• Solar Box Cooker (SBC)
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
• Internet of Things (Iot)
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Renewable Energy

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