 | Boiling Point No. 36 - November 1995 |
 |  | Solar Energy in the Home |
| | New Prospects in Solar Cooking-The GTZ Solar Cooker manual |
|  | Theme articles |
| | Parameters for a Solar Cooker Programme by Richard C Wareham of the Sunstove Organisation |
| | The Sunstove Solar Box Cooker |
| | Sunstoves in the Republic of South Africa |
| | Gaining Ground in Solar Box Cooking in Kenya |
| | Solar Cookers - A Cause Worth Promoting |
| | Free Energy from the Sun |
| | A Solar Box Cooker with a Reflecting Lining |
| | The Solar Puddle - A New Water Pasteurization Technique |
| | Renewable Energy - A World Bank View |
| | Non-theme articles |
| | ESMAP study points toward village-level management of woodfuel resources in Chad |
| | Burning Charcoal Issues |
| | A Dangerous Trade: Saving Wood by Burning Coal |
| | Haiti's Domestic Fuel Project |
| | GTZ News |
| | R & D News |
| | Coal briquetting and clays for Zambian stoves |
| | Malawi Rural Stoves, Socio-economic Research |
| | Improving the three-stone fire |
| | Comparative tests of solar box cookers |
| | Parabolic Solar Reflector and Heat Storage Cooker |
| | An Affordable Parabolic Solar Cooker |
New Prospects in Solar Cooking-The GTZ Solar Cooker manual
There are so many publications about solar cookers that it would be impossible for Boiling Point to give a bibliography. Fortunately, GTZ has produced a comprehensive manual entitled New Prospects in Solar Cooking by Michael Grupp, SYNOPSYS, Route d'OImet, F-34700 LODEVE, France.
This can be obtained from GTZ/GATE, PO Box 5180, DG5277 Eschborn, Germany. Tel: +49 6196 79 3190 Fax: +49 6196 79 7352
This has three main sections:
• General options for solar cookers
• Classification and characteristics
• Catalogue of solar cookers
As can be seen from the contents list reproduced below, this 120 page publication deals with all aspects of solar cooking, technological and sociological, and in its main appendix gives a brief description of more than 100 different cookers classified by type. Each has a drawing or photograph or both and a reference for more details. The address list includes the names of the three organizations and people concerned with solar cookers throughout the world.
Anyone planning to 'invent' a new solar cooker would be well advised to study these descriptions
and address the question - what improvement would help to make the cooker more acceptable to the potential user?
New Prospects for Solar Cooking
Contents
Abstract and Introduction
1 Goals and Methods of Study
2 General Options for the Developments of Better Solar Cookers
Thermal Improvements
General Technical Improvements
User Related Improvements
Improvements in Production Technology
Dissemination and Maintenance
Financial Constraints
3 Solar Cooker Classification
4 Detailed Discussion of the Classification
Box Systems
Flat Plate Collector Systems
Vacuum Tube Collector Systems
Linear Concentrating Systems
Parabolic Concentrator and Similar Systems
Comments on the Cost Potential of Different Cooker Systems
5 Conclusions
Annex 1 Classification System
Annex 2 Solar Cooker Catalogue
Annex 3 Address List
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