2026-05-31T02:36:03Zhttps://riuma.uma.es/rest/oai/requestoai:riuma.uma.es:10630/273402026-02-03T12:17:57Zcom_10630_2254col_10630_37959
Optical ray-tracing analysis of geometrical variations of a funnel solar cooker.
Carrillo-Andrés, Antonio
Apaolaza-Pagoaga, Xabier
Jiménez-Navarro, Juan Pablo
Rodrigues-Ruivo, Celestino
Cocinas (Aparato)
Energía solar
Ingeniería sostenible
Optica geométrica
Funnel solar cookers are simple, effective and have multiple advantages in practical use. The typology is wide but a large part of the existing designs are based on a 3D funnel-shaped concentrator assembled from a series of flat reflective panels. The optical performance of a funnel cooker design of this category has already been studied in a previous work. However, there are some interesting geometric aspects that have never been investigated before. The typical funnel geometry has two degrees of freedom to define its shape. This generates a family of variations from the base geometry. The influence of these variations on the cooker optical performance is unknown. This work uses the open source Soltrace ray-tracing tool to improve the understandig of these aspects. This knowledge may be of interest to designers and also to practical users of the funnel solar cooker.
2023-07-21T10:47:02Z
2023-07-21T10:47:02Z
2023-07-13
2023
conference output
https://hdl.handle.net/10630/27340
eng
CONSOLFOOD 2023 − International Conference on Advances in Solar Thermal Food Processing
A Coruña (Spain)
12 Julio 2023
open access