People use solar cookers primarily to cook

food and pasteurize water, although

additional uses are continually being
developed. Numerous factors including
access to materials, availability of traditional
cooking fuels, climate, food preferences,
cultural factors, and technical capabilities
affect people's approaches to solar cooking.
We use materials available in daily life.
These include corrugated cardboard boxes,
black paper, aluminum foil, plastic
sheets, plastic canister etc.
We also use the following tools:white
glue, double-sided adhesive tape,
transparent adhesive tape, scissors, cutter,
ruler, magic marker etc
Our solar cooker is similar to the solar cooker
in this picture. In order to absorb more sunlight
we fix six collectors to collect more sunlight. This is
the design of our solar cooker.

The more directly the glass faces the sun, the
greater the solar heat gained. Although the
glass is the same size for box 1 and box 2, more
sunlight shines through the glass on box 2
because it faces the sun more directly. Note
that box 2 also has more area for heat loss.



Single or multiple reflectors bounce additional
sunlight through the glass and onto the solar box.
This additional input of solar energy results in
higher cooker temperature.

Design and construction skills
Solar cooker facing the sun at noon should be longer
in the east/west dimension to make better use of the
reflector over a cooking period of several hours. As
the sun travels across the sky, this configuration
results in a more consistent cooking temperature.
With square cookers or ones having the longest
dimension to the north/south,
a greater percentage of the
early morning and late
Afternoon sunlight is reflected
from the reflector to the ground,
missing the box collection area.

Greenhouse effect results in the heating of enclosed spaces into which
the sun shines through a transparent material such as glass or
plastic.
The light energy that is absorbed by dark pot underneath the pot is
converted into longer wavelength heat energy and re-radiates from
the interior materials. Most of this radiant energy,
because it is of a longer wavelength,
cannot pass through the
glass and is therefore trapped
within the enclosed space.


Application of physics principles
in the design
Conduction
Conduction is the process of heat flow from regions of
higher temperatures to regions of lower temperatures
through a medium. But conduction is not efficient in
insulator, so we can use the insulating material such
as :plastic and glass to trap heat inside the solar
cooker and heat energy cannot lose by conduction to
the air easily.


Application of physics principles
in the design
Convection
Heat can be transferred in a fluid by
convection in which the heated fluid expands,
rises and is replaced by the surrounding fluid.
So we should use something covering it up,
having the hot air trapped inside the solar
cooker to keep the temperature steady.
Thus we use glass to cover
it up.
Radiation
Energy is gained on absorbing infra-red radiation. Dull black surfaces are
good absorbers and good radiators of radiation. Silvery surfaces are poor
absorbers and poor radiators of heat. So we cover the outside with black
paper and use silvery paper inside.
Test of solar cooker-First Time
Time/
min.
0 5 10 15 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60
Temp
/
o
C
25 27 28 29 34 35 37 37 39 40 43 45
Test of solar cooker-Second Time

Time/
min.
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Temp./
o
C
20 21 21 21.5 22 22 23 24
Time/
min.
40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75
Temp./
o
C
25 25.5 26 26 27.5 28.5 29 29.5
Test of the solar cooker Third Time
Time/
min.
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Temp.
/
o
C
19 21 22 22 23 23.5 24 24
Time/
min.
40 45 50 55 60 65 70
Temp.
/
o
C
25 26 28 29 31 31.5 32
We have read a lot of books and search for
information in the internet. Each of us brings up
different opinion. Actually there are lots of ways
to make the solar cooker.We look for all sample
we think that is good. But Our solar cooker have
a big defect. The collector we used is difficult to
absorb sunlight in the evening. It is only suitable
for use when the light shines on top of our solar
cooker.
We thought that this project is very
interesting but our solar cooker is
not so good, If we can do it again
we think we must do it better.We
think we have learned a lot of
things about the solar energy
through this project. We also used
amount less than $30 to do this
project. This project is good for
students!
Group leader:Lau Chun Kin 4D (29)
Group member:Cheung Wai Pan 4D(21)
Choi Chi Hoi 4D (23)
Chu Wa Hung 4D (25)
Wong Kam Hong 4D (39)