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Classification and Therminology of Solar Cookers:
Terminology and Classification of solar cookers
To help myself and maybe others too to get things straight, I have made a proposition for some terminology to classify solar cookers. I know there are some classifications out there already, but the subject is far from clear in my opinion. Some cooker take their name from the cooking pot, others take their names from the type of reflector they are using, again others take their name from how the reflector is curved, if it is a deep curve of shallow curve. A cooker with a very shallow reflector would normally be called a solar grill. A cooker with a deep curve would sometimes be more of a cooker. This dicussion should contiune, but here anyway my 10 cents. To simplify I limit the scope to cathegories depending on type of reflectors and cooking spot. The reflector in the other hand is divided into four cathegories depending on shape, curve and the shape and size of the elements of reflections.
In my view, the solar cooker could take its names from many different cathegories depending the type of specification. I am giving three examples here of well known solar cookers, and indicating what specifies each one of them. As you probably see, more than one yes, in each cathegori, indicates sub variations and gives a possibility to classify these variations.
Number of variations based on the standard Solar Grill will normally be:
2* 1 * 4 * 2 *2 = 32 variations. A possibility to name each variations should then be possible.
Many more types than the standard three mentioned below, and could probably be classified according to this therminology and system. It should also be possible to find and evaluate new types of solar cookers based on this classification.
Note: this is not a final classification, but more a proposition open to discussion and change.
You find my proposition for classification in the pdf file below.
To help myself and maybe others too to get things straight, I have made a proposition for some terminology to classify solar cookers. I know there are some classifications out there already, but the subject is far from clear in my opinion. Some cooker take their name from the cooking pot, others take their names from the type of reflector they are using, again others take their name from how the reflector is curved, if it is a deep curve of shallow curve. A cooker with a very shallow reflector would normally be called a solar grill. A cooker with a deep curve would sometimes be more of a cooker. This dicussion should contiune, but here anyway my 10 cents. To simplify I limit the scope to cathegories depending on type of reflectors and cooking spot. The reflector in the other hand is divided into four cathegories depending on shape, curve and the shape and size of the elements of reflections.
In my view, the solar cooker could take its names from many different cathegories depending the type of specification. I am giving three examples here of well known solar cookers, and indicating what specifies each one of them. As you probably see, more than one yes, in each cathegori, indicates sub variations and gives a possibility to classify these variations.
Number of variations based on the standard Solar Grill will normally be:
2* 1 * 4 * 2 *2 = 32 variations. A possibility to name each variations should then be possible.
Many more types than the standard three mentioned below, and could probably be classified according to this therminology and system. It should also be possible to find and evaluate new types of solar cookers based on this classification.
Note: this is not a final classification, but more a proposition open to discussion and change.
You find my proposition for classification in the pdf file below.
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