Abstract

The solar oven was designed to convert solar energy into useful heat energy within a confined space (oven chamber) which can be used for cooking and baking purposes. The oven was designed to a length of 707.5mm with a thickness of 33mm, having components like mild steel, tungsten, fibre, solar panel and a reflector to concentrate the solar radiation on the collector. The heat supply to the chamber is based on the continuous adjustment of the reflector and the solar radiation. The oven was tested for about 5hours to bake, and within the first 30minutes of putting the oven on, the heat within the oven space was at designed temperature (300 ⁰C), which is very suitable for baking. The oven was used to bake meat pie, cake and chin, all these were baked at different time interval and was very effective using solar energy. Charcoal was also used to bake for 2hours and immediately the charcoal started burning, the heat was distributed equally in the oven’s chamber and the heat was used to bake meat pie, chin chin. At the end of the day, its shows that solar and charcoal oven is very suitable for baking.