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Sunil K Somani

• Design of solar dryer with turboventilator and fireplace

  The author has been using solar dryers for food processing especially for making amla candy, for the last five years. Solar dryer is an innovative design with combined draught, natural and induced with fan.

  • 01/10/2009

  • Akshay Urja
  • • Food Process Industry
    • Solar Energy
    • Energy
    • Solar Dryers
    • India

• Development of solar community dish cookers

  Based on very encouraging experiences with SK-14 cookers, Prof. Ajay Chandak designed solar community cookers of 2.0 m and 2.3 m diametres. After removing few teething problems, a number of agencies were trained to manufacture these community solar cookers.

  • 01/12/2009

  • Akshay Urja
  • • Energy
    • Energy Technology
    • Solar Cookers
    • India
    • Maharashtra
    • Akshay Urja
    • Ajay Chandak
    • Sunil K Somani
    • Rahul Kulkarni