Cooking food is a necessity for human beings. However, it requires a significant amount of energy. Conventional fossil fuels are the most widely used in cities. This energy is expensive, polluting, and becoming scarce. In rural areas of the Sahel countries, in particular, wood biomass is the most widely used. The use of wood biomass for cooking causes significant deforestation and respiratory diseases. These (Sahelian) countries have significant solar potential. Harnessing this virtually free energy source is essential for cooking. Solar cookers are therefore a solution to reduce fossil fuel needs and deforestation. The objective of this work is to contribute to the development of solar cookers. A solar cooker with a parabolic trough collector is designed and studied in this work. This was an experimental study. We monitored the temperature changes in certain parts of the cooker and the water heated with the device. The cooker's thermal performance was also evaluated. The results show that temperatures at the focus can reach 222°C. The temperature distribution along the focal line is relatively uniform. The useful power at the focus reaches a value of approximately 225W with a maximum instantaneous thermal efficiency of approximately 0.32. The observed efficiency is acceptable but lower than what was expected with the concentrator user.
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Solar Cooker, Parabolic Trough Concentrator, Temperature, Performance
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Boureima, D., Aziz, B. A., Aboubakar, C., Joseph, B. D. (2025). Realization and Experimental Study of a Parabolic Trough Solar Cooker. Science Journal of Energy Engineering, 13(3), 129-134. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.sjee.20251303.13
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abstract = {Cooking food is a necessity for human beings. However, it requires a significant amount of energy. Conventional fossil fuels are the most widely used in cities. This energy is expensive, polluting, and becoming scarce. In rural areas of the Sahel countries, in particular, wood biomass is the most widely used. The use of wood biomass for cooking causes significant deforestation and respiratory diseases. These (Sahelian) countries have significant solar potential. Harnessing this virtually free energy source is essential for cooking. Solar cookers are therefore a solution to reduce fossil fuel needs and deforestation. The objective of this work is to contribute to the development of solar cookers. A solar cooker with a parabolic trough collector is designed and studied in this work. This was an experimental study. We monitored the temperature changes in certain parts of the cooker and the water heated with the device. The cooker's thermal performance was also evaluated. The results show that temperatures at the focus can reach 222°C. The temperature distribution along the focal line is relatively uniform. The useful power at the focus reaches a value of approximately 225W with a maximum instantaneous thermal efficiency of approximately 0.32. The observed efficiency is acceptable but lower than what was expected with the concentrator user.},
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Research Institute of Applied Sciences and Technologies, National Center for Scientific and Technological Research, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Renewable Thermal Energy Laboratory, University Joseph KI-ZERBO, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Physics Department, University Lédéa Bernard OUEDRAOGO, Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso
Renewable Thermal Energy Laboratory, University Joseph KI-ZERBO, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
