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Institution Based Solar Steam Cooking Systems in India

R K Aggarwal1*

DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.15.2.07

Large amount of conventional fuels like coal, wood and LPG are being used for community cooking resulting emission of greenhouse gases. Concentrating type parabolic dish can generate temperature upto 350-4000C thus, suitable for cooking purposes. The solar steam cooking system can cook food for 50 - 25,000 persons daily. A number of solar steam cooking systems installed at various institutions have been presented. Keeping this in view, a solar steam cooking system for 1500 students is being proposed at Dr Y S Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry, Nauni campus. Design specifications and possible applications have also been presented.

Cooking; Fuel; Greenhouse Gasses; Solar; Steam

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Received: 26-05-2020
Accepted: 27-07-2020
Reviewed by: OrcidOrcidIssa Ahmed Abed
Second Review by: OrcidOrcidDiane Palmer
Final Approval by: Dr Gopal Krishan

Introduction

Approximately 27 million rural population rely on biomass for cooking.1薪材,液化石油气(LPG)和生物质wastes are being used for community cooking. Traditional fuels being used, release hazardous smoke. Use of traditional inefficient biomass burning cookstove causes poor air quality, affecting human health, deteriorating forest eco system, global warming and climate change. According to WHO, 1.5 million people die annually worldwide due to indoor air pollution.2-9

Renewable energy share is 12% of a total 200 GW of electricity produced in India. Due to rise in population, economic development, and changing lifestyles electricity requirement in India has been increasing despite of continuous rise in capacity.

India receives solar radiations ranging 3.0–6.5 kWhm-2per day.10Solar radiations can be utilized for cooking, heating, lighting and other applications. With the technology advancement and economical viability the SPV, SWH, solar desalination, solar drying and steam cooking system are popular practical applications of solar energy. Solar steam cooking (SSC) system is solar energy based technology used to cook food for large number of persons. In solar steam cooking system, the solar radiation falls on a solar concentrator, water become steam at high T&P, which is taken to the kitchen using insulated pipes.11-14The solar concentrators being propagated in the country are single axis TFFS dish and dual axis TFP (ARUN© Dish).(15,16)

社区规模的太阳能烹饪系统组成of number of automatically TPRs (Scheffler dish), assembled in series and parallel combinations to generate steam for cooking food for thousands of people twice a day without polluting environment with in short period of time.

In SSC, temperature of 350-4000C is generally achieved. A 7m2sized solar dish can cook the food for 50 people and large sized dish (16m2) can prepare meal for more than 50–100 person.17Traditional food such as chapattis, boiling or frying rice, vegetables, cereal, pulses, regional dishes etc. can be prepared. The JNNSM aimed to support solar based heating system that has set the ambitious target for domestic and industrial applications. The MNRE will install 20 million m2of collector/reflector area during phase III (2017-2022) under the mission.18Scheffler type dish is used as concentrator for cooking.19-21Because of simple design, the industrial & maintenance expenditure of a Scheffler dish is cheaper than the other concentrators.15,22-23

Components of Solar Steam Cooking System

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图1:太阳能蒸汽首席运营官的各种组件king system are presented in this section.

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Design and Dimensions of Solar Steam Cooking System

The design specifications of various components of SSC have been presented in this section.

Scheffler Dish

Wolfgang Scheffler initially developed Scheffler reflector in 1986 which is a parabolic dish in which single axis tracking is provided to move along with sun. Scheffler reflector has a fixed focal point, which makes cooking easily and temperatures, rises to 450° - 650°C. The Scheffler reflector system installed at Scheffler reflector system installed at Prajapita Brahma Kumaris Ishwariya Vishwa Vidhyalaya, Om Shanti Bhawan, Madhuban, Mount Abu Rajasthan, India in 1999 has capacity to cook food for 35,000 persons daily was a largest in the world. The Scheffler dish concentrates solar beam at concentration ratio of 100 at absorber to get steam.25

Dimensions

Diameter: 1 m

Reflector Material: Acrylic

Steam pressure: 10 bar

Steam temperature: 1800C

Absorber

The absorber is used to receive the concentrated solar radiation to convert water into steam.26

(a) Specifications

Capacity: 2 kg

Material: Aluminum

(b) Design Calculation:

Steam jacketed utensils

Initial temperature of rice, T1: 200C

Final temperature of rice, T2: 1000C
Equ1
Steam Jacketed Utensils

The steam from absorber is carried to kitchen using insulated pipe27.

(a) Specifications

Capacity: 2 kg

Material: Steel

(b) Energy Required in Solar Collector Energy for Cooking Rice:

M1: 2Kg
Dp: 1.8 KJ(KgoC)-1

Estimation of the useful energy required for cooking has been reported by.28-31

Energy Requirement for Water Boiling

M2: 2 Kg

Specific heat of Water: 4.187 KJ(KgoC)-1

Water temperature initially, T1: 20oC

Final temperature of water, T2: 100oC

锅所需能源

M3: 2 Kg

Specific heat capacity of Stainless steel: 0.510 KJ(KgoC)-1

Initial temperature, T1: 20oC

Final temperature, T2: 100oC

Energy for Water Vaporization

Mass of water (M4): 2 Kg

hfg = 2260 KJKg-1


Total Energy

The one-third of the required energy for cooking get lost

Loss

Total Energy Required for Cooking 2 Kg of Rice

Collector Area

Energy for cooking rice (2kg) = 7.5 MJ

Hourly GSR = 1.583MJm-2

Cooking time

Time required = 7.5/ 1.583 = 4.74 hours.
Collector area = 6 m2
Cooking time with 6 m2= 7.5/ (6 × 1.583) = 0.79 hours

Installation of Solar Cooking System

Due to high temperature achieved in the system, the cooking time has reduced by 45 minutes than conventional solar cookers.32The suitability of solar steam cooking in institute’s kitchen with SR was found by More.33Four dishes of 16 m2SR were used to cook food for 500 persons daily by generating steam of 230 kgd-1resulted in saving of 19 kg of LPG/day. A SSC system was installed at automobile department, Nehru College of Engineering and Research Centre, Kerala. The maximum water temperature at the outlet was 140.20C by using aluminum sheet reflector. GI sheet is not better option to cook food.34

A SSC system was installed at Sai Baba Shridi, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra for cooking 20,000 people per day during 2009. The system is generating 3,500 kg of steam daily, which resulted in saving of 100,000 kg of cooking gas.35The system cost was about Rs 133 lakh out of which 43% was paid by the government. TTD, Andhra Pradesh has set up a SSC system for preparing meal for 15,000 persons daily. The system generates around 4,000 kg of steam d-1at 1800C and ten kgcm-2that sufficient to prepare food two time for nearly15,000 devotees. It was modular and consisted of 106 automatic TPC arranged in series & parallel combination, each of 9.2 m2reflector area. The all concentrators were attached to a central steam piping connected to the kitchen. The system helped in saving of 1,18,000 liters of diesel annually amounting Rs. 0.23 million. The system cost was about Rs. 11crore with 5.5 crore paid by MNRE, rest was paid by the TTD trust.36A SSC system was installed at Golden Temple, Amritsar in 2017 for cooking food for 50,000 persons costing Rs. 17.25 million, which significantly reduced daily consumption of 600 LPG cylinders and 30,000 kg of firewood.37

A solar steam cooking system was installed at Shantivan Complex, Gyan Sarovar Complex and Madhuban campuses; Mount Abu in 1988 in collaboration with Switzerland based Wolfgang Scheffler, along with Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (BKWSU’s) for catering meal for 35,000 persons.38The roof consisted of 84 parabolic concentrators of 96m² size. The temperature reached to 500ºC at its focal point. It generates 3500 Kg of steam daily and cooking time for 50 kg of rice was 12-14 minutes. It saveda bout 200 liters of diesel, 1.2 tons of CO2每天每天和保存184公斤的液化石油气(环境岑ter on Human Settlement’s Hosted by School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi). Sarkari Kumar Chhatralay, Vyra has installed the Parabolic Dishes based Concentrated Solar Cooking System consisted of 4 concentrators of 16 m2each of collector area. The system was commissioned in 2011 costing Rs. 8 Lakh out of which Gujarat State Tribal Development Residential Educational Institutions Society (GSTDREIS) has granted Rs. 5.6 Lakh & MNRE granted of Rs. 2.4 Lakh as subsidy. The system is cooking 20 kg of rice, 10 kg of Dal and 10 kg of vegetables daily resulted in saving 120 of LPG/year. The Uttrakhand Renewable Energy Development Agency, Department of Renewable Energy GOI, Uttrakhand has installed solar steam cooking system at various locations which has been summarized in Table 1.

Table 1: Details of Solar Steam Cooking Systems installed/being installed in Uttarakhand39

S. No.

Name of Site/Beneficiary

Capacity

(sqm.)

No. of Systems

Year

1

Shantikunj, Haridwar for cooking of food to 1000 persons

160

1

2009-2010

2

GauTirth Ashram, Koteshwarpuram, Tehri for distillation of cow urine for medicinal use

16

1

2011-12

3

Jindal Refinery, Kashipur for 30,000 ltr. Of water heating to feed in boiler

480

1

2011-12

4

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee for cooking food in hostels

976

9

2012-13

5

Unique Hotel and Restaurant Pvt. Ltd., 97 Rajpur Road, Dehradun for water heating

80

1

2013-14

6

Swami Ramtirth Mission, Rajpur Road, Dehradun for cooking

16

1

2013-14

7

Rajiv Gandhi NavodayaVidyalaya, Shikarpur, Haridwar for cooking of food for 300 children

64

1

2014-15

8

Rajiv Gandhi NavodayaVidyalaya, Chaunoliya, Almora for cooking of food for 300 children

64

1

2014-15

9

Eco Gole Girls International School, Dehradoon

256

1

2015-16

10

M/s TTK Prestige Ltd., Roorkee. Non imaging concentrator

195

1

2015-16

Discussion

The study revealed that solar steam cooking system can be installed at community level for energy conservation in various institutions. It will help in reduction of CO2for mitigating climate change also. It reduces the consumption of LPG thus saving the fuel bill of the institutions. It will also reduce the cooking time and labour for cleaning of utensils as the washing of utensils is done using steam only. On the basis of successful functioning of solar steam cooking system at various locations, this university intends to install the similar system for 1500 students under a common mess for boys and girls.

Conclusions

It is evident from the above discussion that solar steam cooking system is suitable for cooking food for 50 to 50,000 persons thus, reducing the consumption of conventional fuels. It can also be used for water heating also. It will also reduce the cooking time without detouring indoor air quality. It will result in reducing the emission of greenhouse gases and mitigating the climate change. The number of LPG cylinder saved can be utilized for providing LPG to low income group families.

List of Acronym

GW

Giga Watt

SPV

Solar photovoltaic

SWH

Solar water heating system

CST

Concentrated Solar Thermal

GI

Galvanized Iron

kJ

Kilo Joule

DT

Temperature difference

JNNSM

Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission

MNRE

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy

T&P

Temperature and pressure

TFFC

Tracked fixed focus Scheffler

TFP

Tracked Fresnel paraboloid

TPRs

Tracked paraboloidal reflectors

TPC

Tracked parabolic concentrators

M1

Mass of rice

Dp

Specific heat of rice

M2

Mass of water

M3

Mass of steel

hfg

Latent heat of vaporization of water

GSR

Global solar radiation

SR

Scheffler reflector

TTD

Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam

Acknowledgement

The facilities provided by department of Environmental Science, Dr Y S Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry, Nauni are highly acknowledged.

Conflict of Interest

There is no conflict of interest of this paper.

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