International Research Journal of Education and Technology

The purpose of the project is to replace old wood fuel stoves with an eco-friendly solar stove .A solar stove is a device which uses the energy of sunlight to heat food or drink or to sterilize it.the vast variety of the solar stove presently in use are cheap ,low tech devices.becausethey use no fuel and cost ,nothing to operate ,they reduce air pollution and deforestation. Solar cooking is a form of outdoor cooking and is often used in situations where minimal fuel consumption is important, or the danger of accidental fires is high.Alternate source of energy is always a green approach of energy consumption, in the time of crises of energy and global warming. Use of solar energy for cooking is a better solution, but still not established as user friendliness and economic aspect. Food is the basic need of human beings. Food can be cooked with conventional fuels like wood, cow-dung, kerosene, Liquid Petroleum Gas and electricity. Solar stove is a clean and eco-friendly energy device for cooking. There are a large number of solar stovesdesignedanddeveloped by scientistsandresearchersall overthe worldbutstill the utilization of solar stoves is not sufficient. There are many reasons for the insufficient use of a solar stove like, its bulky size, heavy weight, lack of open space, slow cooking, fixed timing for cooking, less awareness etc. In these paper different solar stoves like solar panel stoves, solar parabolic stoves, solar box type stoves and hybrid solar stoves etc. are discussed in detail. Still a lot of modifications are required to make the solar stoves user friendly, lighter in weight, smaller in size and still economical. Development of a photovoltaic and thermal hybrid solar stove has started a new horizon in the field of solar stove as the cooking is faster than conventional box type solar stove and can be used at a user's convenient time. The stove wasconvertedintoasolar dryer by small modification and was used fordrying vegetables. Still lots of scopes are there for research in solar stove especially for small size domestic solar stove.

Keywords– Induction stove, magnetic field, heatingperformance, coil.