Industrial Development of Solar Cookers in Sudan

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Industrial Development of Solar

Cookers in Sudan

A Private Experience


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The Experience of SEEC

Solar Energy Enterprise Company

A private Sudanese company working in the R&D

of adapted technology products like rural water

filtration units, solar thermal products and

community development projects

Started business in 1985

Bread and butter earned from specialized workon heavy metal rolling and steel fabrication (fuel

tanks and depots, hangers, etc.)


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Workshop Facilities

Graduate Students

Designed Heating Unit for

Petroleum Skid Tanks


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Rural Water Filtration Units

A Useful Product Line


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The Solar Cooker Program

Using the workshop resources and the

innovation of the students sponsored, the

following product lines were developed:

Parabolic dish cookers

Community catering modules, based on the

Scheffler collector

All-metal box cookers developed for UNIDO


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The Three Products


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The Dish Cookers


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Well-trained Technicians

Good Production Capacity


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Dish cooker in use


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In the job


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Specifications

Aperture: (1.8 m diameter)

Tracking: Two axis; manual

Mirror: Stainless steel sheet (expensive version); or

consumed offset printing plates

Power to pot: 0.8 to 1.2 kW (thermal)

Pot size: Up to 14 liters

Carries out all cooking operations, including frying

Cooking time: 0.5 to 2 hours


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Community Kitchens

Based on the Scheffler collector.

Disseminations over the past 15 years:

A Hospital in Khartoum (5 reflectors)

A prison in Gadarrif (3 reflectors) A public restaurant in Fashir (5 reflectors)

A camp in Omdurman (2 reflectors)

A School in Dongola (4 reflectors)

Demonstration units with built-in cooking place (3modules)


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Demonstration Unit at Workshop


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Solar Kitchen Under Construction

(Gedarif Prison)


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Cooking Test


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Two Demonstration Units at the Africa

Industrial Day Show


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Box Cookers

Developed as a prelude to program for mass

production for use in Darfur

Innovative all-metal design No wood

Rugged - robust aesthetically appealing

Simple controls for opening and closing top

glass window and adjusting booster mirror


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Two Different Designs for Final Field Testing


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Workshop Equipment


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Personnel, with VT apprentices


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Personnel: master sheet metal technician


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The First Batch


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Testing the Cookers


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MSc Student Preparing a Cooking

Session


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Okra Stew and Rice


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Even Hamburgers


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Field Testing in Darfur


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FinallyWhat about the food itself?

Is it tasty?

During a cooking session, we were not aware of

somebody who was nose dropping when thefood aroma was in the air.

She was caught by the camera


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I want some food!


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WOW!

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