Solar cooker realizations in actual use: An overview

This paper deals with the recent advances in developments and the performance analysis of a solar cooker׳s technologies. The meticulous review on such technologies provides an overview on existing solar cookers developed during the past two decades, especially major geometry components that affect their performances such as the booster mirror, absorber tray, insulation, glazing system, cooking vessel, and thermal energy storage materials. The thermal performance parameters, such as figures of merit and cooking power used for testing and evaluating the performance of solar cooking, energy and exergy analysis, have also been addressed. The performance of both single- and double-axis tracking mechanisms applied in the cooker structure is also discussed. Attempt has also been made to summarize the CO2 mitigation potential through such devices.