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Institutional Solar Thermal Cooking Stove
A thermal solar cooking system for institutional cooking within schools and hospitals.
Designed for institutional users such as rural and peri-urban schools in Kenya, the Solar Thermal Cooking Stove system delivers a solution to both cook and heat water without using any firewood.
About
Addressing the lack of electricity, reliable supply and sustainable energy sources, this solution developed a tailor-made cooking system with the same capacity as the wood fuel stoves, using only the sun's rays as fuel. Apart from a minor demand of power for solar tracking, sustained by a small PV panel, the system requires no electricity or other fuel, storing heat for morning cooking. The institutional solar stove consists of a number of solar collectors (2 to 6, depending on application type, location and need for input heat), a heat storage component and an adequate number of cooking units, for school and larger-scale cooking - referred to as sufuria heaters. The heat is transferred between each component by means of thermosiphons, which are tubes, filled with water and at a slight sub-pressure. The solution helps to reduce cooking cost, deforestation, indoor pollution and improve the workplace environment for the cooks.
Key Benefits
From 510 to 680 tons of CO2e emissions per school can be reduced annually