Stove Parabola

Although this type of solar cooker can cook as good as conventional stoves, but the stove was difficult to make. Parabolic cookers are capable of achieving high heat and cook quickly, but always require regulation and supervision in order to operate safely. The numbers in the whole world around a few hundred thousand pieces, mostly in China. This device is particularly useful for large-scale institutional cooking.

Surya bowl is convergence technologies (solar light) is typically used by the Solar Kitchen in Auroville India. Unlike convergence technologies (solar light) which use the reflection system must follow the movement of the sun, using solar bowl-shaped reflector plate static concave half round work in a different way.

Solar bowl mounted above the kitchen with Auroville, Kitchen Surya. Pemusat round sunshine, 15 m in diameter, installed and integrated with the slanting roof Solar Kitchen. Buffer structure formed from the 96 bowls of fruit segments ferro-cement ready-pairs, the interior is coated with 11 000 pieces small mirror. The walls are made of solid brick supporting the entire structure. A receiving device mounted tracking the sun hanging above the bowl, which are automatically regulated by a computer mechanism for sun always be at the focal point. Surya cup capacity produces 75 kW of heat, which in turn produces enough steam to cook 1200 meals on a sunny day. This system has two diesel heater as a backup when the day overcast.