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Project Report On

Solar Cooker
Submitted to

Board of Technical Education, Jodhpur

In Partial fulfillments of the requirement for the Award of the diploma of Polytechnic Diploma In Mechanical Engineering

Session: 2012-13 Submitted by: Laksh Sharma Madhur Jain Jitendra Kumar Yadav Manish SomvanshiAlwar Prakash Sharma MohitNagpal LIET (Polytechnic) Alwar Department of Mechanical Engineering, Laxmi Devi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chikani, Alwar Supervised by: Mr.Juhoor Khan Department of ME(HOD) LIET (Polytechnic)

PREFACE
The addition of project in the curriculum of the engineering final year by the Board of Technical Education is an appreciable act which enables us to learn to work in a team & where we have to stress during the course of project development. The Solar Cooker is in fact the honest work as per the spirit of the minor project. There are many methods of transmission but this method is also superior one. While working on this project we come to know how to face the difficulties & to cooperate within a team.

We do not claim the originality of the materials presented in this report. We have taken assistance from a large no. of books & literatures for presenting the Report.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whole work in this Project is done by my whole team & its Credit goes to all of them.

We also extend our thanks to our Head of DepartmentMr Juhoor Khan who guided us well & provided us the great opportunity to complete this project. We also express our deep gratitude to Laksh Sharma, Madhur Jain, Jitendra Kumar Yadav, Manish Somvanshi, Prakash Sharma and MohitNagpal for the precious suggestions that they provide during the making of this project. We are also thankful to lab staffs that were always receptive & helpful whenever approached, without their approach this project might not have been completed with so much ease.

We would also like to thanks all our colleagues, who made their suggestions for the betterment of the project.

CANDIDATES DECLARATION

We Laksh Sharma, Madhur Jain, Jitendra Kumar Yadav, Manish Somvanshi, Prakash Sharma and MohitNagpal students of Mech. Engg. Final Year of L.I.E.T (Polytechnic) Alwar hereby declares that the all information written in this project file is true.

We have worked on the project Solar Cookerin duration of our Final Year of LIET (Polytechnic). We were permitted by our H.O.D Mr Juhoor Khan. We did not do any illegal work for the completion of our project.

INDEX
1.0Solar Energy1 1.1 Need to use Solar Energy.2 1.2 Basic Principles.2 1.3 Factors to considering Solar Energy2 1.4 Measuring Solar Energy..3 1.5 Application of Solar Energy4 2.0Solar Cooker.4 2.1 Basic principles of Solar Cooking...5 2.2 Advantages and limitations of using a Solar Cooker...5 3.0Types of aSolar Cooker..6 4.0Box type Solar Cooker....6 4.1 Features..6 4.2 Construction..7

4.3 Specification..9 4.4 Uses9 4.5 Precautions to take.9 4.6 Raw material used for Fabrication...10 4.7 Standard testing process and quality control.10 4.8 Maintenance and servicing of Box Solar Cooker.10 4.9 Costumer education...11 5.0 Multi reflector or concentrating type Solar Cooker...12 5.1 Features...12 5.2 Specification..14 5.3 Uses14 6.0 Parabolic disc concentrator type Solar Cooker14 6.1 Description...14 6.2 Design15 6.3 Material required for fabrication16 6.4 Other requirements16 6.5 Maintenance and servicing of dish solar cookers..16 6.6 Customer education.17 6.7 Working Principle of Parabolic Solar cooker17 7.0 How to Make a Solar Cooker.18 7.1Design: Focus and Concentrate Solar Energy..19 7.2 Design: Trap Solar Energy...19 7.3 Use Inexpensive or Recycled Materials.20 7.4 Tools and Safety.20 7.5 Construction...21 7.6 More about the Top and Bottom22 7.7 Creases...23 7.8 Glue the Foil.24 7.9 Avoid Wrinkles and Scratches on the Foil24 7.10 Construct the lid rectangle25 7.11 Construct the Lid26 7.12 Assembly: Using Rubber Bands..26 7.13 Put the Box Together.27 7.14 Attach the Lid.27 7.15 Test solar heating..28 7.16 Test and Use Your Solar Cooker28 7.17 Cook with Your Solar Cooker.28 8.0 Testing Methodology.29 8.1 Results and Discussion.29 8.2 Analysis from cooling curve31 8.3 Analysis from heating curve32 8.4 Cooking Test..32 8.5 Instruments used for testing...34