<div dir="ltr">Bigger units will also likely have higher utilization rates and ability to co-invest in backup. <div><br></div><div>N</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px"><br>--------- </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="georgia, serif">(US +1) 202-568-5831<br><i> </i></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 8:50 PM, nari phaltan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nariphaltan@gmail.com" target="_blank">nariphaltan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75">All the best.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75">Anil K Rajvanshi</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-4602300326399563185gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI)<br>Tambmal, Phaltan-Lonand Road<br>P.O.Box 44<br>Phaltan-415523, Maharashtra, India<br>Ph:91-2166-220945/222842<br><a href="mailto:e-mail%3Anariphaltan@gmail.com" target="_blank">e-mail:nariphaltan@gmail.com</a><br> <a href="mailto:nariphaltan@nariphaltan.org" target="_blank">nariphaltan@nariphaltan.org</a><br><br><a href="http://www.nariphaltan.org" target="_blank">http://www.nariphaltan.org</a></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 1:56 AM, Traveller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:miata98@gmail.com" target="_blank">miata98@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Crispin: <br><br>You mentioned a "peanut oil cooker" by Mercedes. What is that? <br><br>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!<br><br>Nikhil<br> <br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-4602300326399563185m_5989182103120333399gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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