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Photovoltaic Cooking

Antonio Lecuona-Neumann, Jose ´ I. Nogueira, Mathieu Legrand
Departamento de Ingenierı ´ aTe ´rmica y de Fluidos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid,
Madrid, Spain

CHAPTER OUTLINE
1. Introduction ....................................................................................................... 403
1.1 Energy and Cooking............................................................................. 404
1.2 Cooking With Wood and the Associated Health Problems ........................ 405
1.3 Cooking With Wood and the Associated Environmental Problems............. 406
1.4 Cooking With Solar Energy ................................................................... 406
2. Solar Cooking Possibilities................................................................................. 407
3. Fundamentals of Cooking.................................................................................... 409
4. Thermal Model of a Photovoltaic Cooker ............................................................. 409
4.1 Some Results of the Model .................................................................. 411
5. Heat Storage (Thermal Energy Storage) With Solar Cooking.................................. 414
5.1 Sensible Heat Thermal Energy Storage.................................................. 414
5.2 Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage..................................................... 416
6. Photovoltaic Solar Cookers................................................................................. 416
7. Conclusions....................................................................................................... 421
Acknowledgments................................................................................................... 421
References ............................................................................................................. 421
Further Reading ...................................................................................................... 425

1. INTRODUCTION

Cooking is essential for humankind. Raw food is difficult to eat and digest and can
be insecure. Only some vegetables and fruits are appropriate to be eaten raw if prop-
erly manipulated [1]. In wide areas of the world, water for drinking needs to be
boiled. This is essential to avoid deadly infections, mainly in developing countries
and where nontreated water is used. Preparation of sanitary hot water (SHW) is
also needed to fight illnesses. This means that thermal energy is essential in human
life.

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