International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT) ISSN: 2249 – 8958, Volume-8 Issue-6, August 2019 5115 Published By: Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication Retrieval Number F9563088619/2019©BEIESP DOI: 10.35940/ijeat.F9563.088619 Abstract: Amid numerous sources of energy, solar energy possesses calibre to combat energy requisite for various sectors. A lot of significant research work has been carried out on solar energy to maximize its applications and efficiency of available designs. Among many applications, cooking is the one of the dominant application of solar energy. Other than basic design of box type solar cooker, solar collectors are employed in solar cooking system for the feasibility of more effective cooking. This manuscript inhibits various cooking system based on solar collectors like FPC(flat plate collector),ETC (evacuated tube collector),PDC(parabolic dish collector), PTC(parabolic trough collector), fresnel lens based collector and scheffler reflector type collector. Solar collectors based cooker designs render compatibility of cooking regarding cooking load, cost, cooking type, ease of operation and cooking time. Keywords : Concentrating, Solar Collectors, Cooking Applications I. INTRODUCTION Pollution in our ecosystem has been increasing at alarming rate due to the emission of harmful gases resulted from the combustion of fossil fuels [1]. This condition is forcing the developing countries to search the new resources which are capable to fulfil the future energy requirements and also pollution free [2, 3].Only 14% of energy demand is fulfilled by renewable energy sources and has lot more potential for future needs [4-6]. Solar energy is the very viable alternative source than the other renewable sources of energy as the rate of power emitted by the sun is 3.8 × 1023 kW and power intercepted by the earth is 1.8 × 1014 kW [7]. Therefore, solar energy proved its potential for combating the various energy demands of the world as well as decrease in the harmful gases emissions. Fulfilment of global energy demand is feasible by solar energy as it is free of cost and abundant in nature[8] .Cooking of food is one of basic requirement of human being on earth which requires energy and that comes from burning of fuel which leads to CO2 emissions. Many countries in Africa and India are still utilizing a significant share of total available energy resource for their cooking needs [9, 10]. Amount of solar intensity in Revised Manuscript Received on August 25, 2019. * Correspondence Author Ranjan Chaudhary , Mechanical Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra,136118, INDIA rnjn.chaudhary@gmail.com Avadhesh Yadav, Mechanical Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra,136118, INDIA rnjn.chaudhary@gmail.com various developing countries of Africa and Asia is 5-7 kWh/m2 and sunny days available for around 275 days a year [11]. Due to this reason use of solar energy for cooking purposes find its place in upper shelf. Apart from the benefit of no use of fuel, solar cooking has other benefits such as high value of nutrition in food, high durability and capability to reduce drugdary [7]. Initially many researchers focused on box type solar cooker and evaluated its various designs experimentally as well as theoretically due to its simplicity [12]. But, other solar collectors also have significant potential in the field of solar cooking due to their countable advantages and feasibility according to the requirement. Kalogirou [13]stated the potential of various solar collectors in numerous thermal energy based applications. The focus of present review paper is to study the use of different types of solar collectors in solar cooking and their compatibility according to cooking load, cooking time, highest temperature achieved and cost. II. USE OF SOLAR COLLECTORS IN COOKING APPLICATIONS Solar collectors are the basic requirement for the utilization of enormous amount of solar radiations falling on earth for various applications. Solar cooking is one of the most prominent and feasible application to harness the solar energy. Previous researches on the solar cooking entails the use of various solar collectors having different cooking capabilities. Therefore, use of solar collector is a prime area of concern for the design and development of solar cooking device according to its cooking load, cooking time, initial cost, maintenance cost and ease of operation. Various solar collectors like evacuated tube, flat plate, parabolic dish, parabolic trough, fresnel lens and scheffler reflector are successfully being used for the purpose of solar cooking. 2.1. Flat plate collector based solar cooking systems It is the most simplest and primitive type of solar collector. It has been used as solar radiation collection medium for solar cookers. A solar cooking system was developed by Schwarzer and Silva [14] based on flat plate collector. It was comprised of storage tanks, cooking pots and reflecting surfaces as shown in figure 1. Authors developed cooking systems taking collector area for the range of 1-12 m2 and 250 in numbers. Vegetable oil of volume 100 litres was taken when collector area of 12m2 is used and vegetable oil acted as carrier of heat from collectors to cooking pots by thermosyphon phenomenon. The values of Compatibility of Concentrating and Non Concentrating Solar Collectors with Cooking Applications for Different Cooking Needs Ranjan Chaudhary, Avadhesh Yadav