Data on Parabolic Dish Cooker
Description
This data presents Solar Radiation, Ambient Temperatures, Chamber Temperatures, Water Temperatures and Absorber Temperatures for a Parabolic Dish Cooker. The specification of the Parabolic Dish Cooker are as follows: Aperture diameter of the parabolic solar reflector=0.86m Aperture area of the parabolic solar reflector = 0.58mm2 Focal Length of the solar parabolic reflector = 0.42cm Rim Angle of the solar parabolic reflector = degree Surface area of the parabolic reflector = 1.04mm2 Absorber Area for the parabola = 0.05mm2 Concentrating ratio = 12.0 Campbell Scientific LTD Pyranometer of ET106 weather station The experimental investigations were carried out in Landmark University Engineering Workshop, Omu-Aran, Kwara State, North Central Nigeria from June, 2017 to April, 2018.
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Tests were started at around 10:00am and were stopped at around 5:00pm. The cookers were kept under shading before the start of the tests and brought to receive solar radiation simultaneously. Tracking of the cookers was done manually every ten minutes Thermocouples were attached to the center of the bottom absorber plate during the No-load (stagnation) test and were immersed into water during the boiling test. In the test, 1 litre of water divided equally between two identical pots was used at each start of the Load-test (Sensible test). Results are recorded every twenty(20) minutes.