[Stoves] Peanut oil cooker?

[Traveller]

Bigger units will also likely have higher utilization rates and ability to
co-invest in backup.

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On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 8:50 PM, nari phaltan <nariphaltan at gmail.com> wrote:

> In 1976 we experimented with such a stove at University of Florida (it was
> an M.Tech thesis at UF). The peanut oil was heated by solar concentrator
> and then circulated in an oven. The experiment failed though the guy got
> his ME! The reason for failure was that at high temperatures all the
> vegetable oils break down and their thermophysical properties go hay wire.
> We even tried using nitrogen atmosphere and pressurization but that did not
> work. This was funded by DOE and I am sure there must be a thesis somewhere.
>
> Nowadays with excellent high temperature oils used in CPC we should have a
> viable solar cooking system. There are limitations of sizing in all such
> systems. For a household it will not work since two-three days of cloudy
> weather will make this system non-operational. Bigger units will have
> bigger heat storage capacity and that might be useful.
>
> All the best.
>
> Anil K Rajvanshi
>
> Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI)
> Tambmal, Phaltan-Lonand Road
> P.O.Box 44
> Phaltan-415523, Maharashtra, India
> Ph:91-2166-220945/222842
> e-mail:nariphaltan at gmail.com
>            nariphaltan at nariphaltan.org
>
> http://www.nariphaltan.org
>
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 1:56 AM, Traveller <miata98 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Crispin:
>>
>> You mentioned a "peanut oil cooker" by Mercedes. What is that?
>>
>> If it is the car company, I can imagine diesel engines running on peanut
>> oil. Where David Stein was, there were at least three top engineers
>> tinkering with coconut oil and diesel made from it. And then there was one
>> who knew coconut agronomy and the Pacific Islander culture deeply; he had
>> been a boat mechanic for over a decade and knew so many islands!
>>
>> Nikhil
>>
>>
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