[Stoves] Peanut oil cooker?

[nari phaltan]

Quite true.

Anil

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On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Traveller <miata98 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> http://www.nariphaltan.org
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>> On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 1:56 AM, Traveller <miata98 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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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