How to Build a Solar Oven out of Scraped Materials
This is a brief guide-line on how to build a solar oven - based on experiences with building a homemade solar ovens, at the lowest possible cost, with simple tools and using scraped materials. It is aimed to reduce the need for fire wood and other fuels in refugee camps.
Series: Practical Answers
Published: 2025
Pages: 16
eBook: 9781835768914
| 1. Introduction. | |||
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| 2. Solar ovens can be used for. … | |||
| 3. Various designs of solar ovens. | |||
| 4. The window. | |||
| 5. Three ways, by which the oven might lose heat. | |||
| 5.1. The heat lost by conduction… | |||
| 5.1.1. One of the physical contacts between the inner and the outer box… | |||
| 5.5.2. Another conduction loss… | |||
| 5.1.3. A third – potential – conduction loss… | |||
| 5.2. The heat lost by convection… | |||
| 5.2.1. The raised bottom of the inner box. | |||
| 5.2.2. The adjustment screws. | |||
| 5.3. The power radiated… | |||
| 5.3.1. Using aluminium foil in the oven. | |||
| 5.4. When using the solar oven as a hay box… | |||
| 6. Maintaining the distance between the inner side of the outer box and the outer side of the inner box. | |||
| 7. The adjustment of the oven to face the sun. | |||
| 8. The handles. | |||
| 9. The scrap materials, which I found and used for this solar oven. | |||
| 10. Merging boards into plates. | |||
| 11. Organizing and calculating how to cut the wooden plates for the outer box (o) and the inner box (i). | |||
| 12. Layout for the cutting of the plates for the inner- (i) and outer (o) boxes. | |||
| 13. Using aluminium foil in the oven. | |||
| 14. Miscellaneous notes. |
Steen Carlsen
Steen Carlsen is an electronics engineer, and founder of Carlsen Power Electronics.
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