Table 2.

A summary of parabolic solar concentrating cookers with sensible heat thermal energy storage (SHTES).

Author	Type of concentrator	Application	Type of study	Storage material	Maximum cooking/storage temperature (oC)	Heat transfer fluid/Working fluid	Test load
Mishra et al. [57]	Parabolic trough	Baking	Experimental	Duratherm 600	168	Duratherm 600	Dough
El Moussaoui et al. [58]	Parabolic trough	Frying	Experimental	Thermal oil	260	Thermal oil	Potato chips(Fries)
Asmelash et al. [59]	Parabolic trough	Cooking	Experimental	Soya bean oil	119	Soya bean oil	Water, eggs and potatoes
Dianda et al. [60]	Parabolic trough	Cooking and frying	Experimental	Vegetable oil	∼110	Vegetable oil	Water, potato and mixed rice with ingredients
Mohan and Vasanthakumar [61]	Parabolic trough	Steam cooking	Experimental	Water	150	Water	Potatoes
Hassen et al. [62]	Parabolic trough	Baking	Experimental and Numerical	Shell Thermia-B oil		Shell Thermia-B	Injera (sour flatbread)
Yilmaz et al. [64].	Parabolic trough	Cooking and water heating	Experimental	Fuchs Renotherm 320	100	Fuchs Renotherm 320	Wheat
Arunachala et al. [65]	Compound parabolic collector	Cooking	Experimental and Numerical	Engine oil	110	Engine oil	Rice
Goytom [63]	Parabolic trough	Baking	Numerical	Thermia-B oil	220	Thermia oil B	Injera (sour flatbread)
Noman et al. [66]	Parabolic trough	Cooking	Numerical and Experimental	Water		Water	None
Akayleh et al. [29]	Parabolic trough	Baking	Experimental	None	85	None	Dough
Widjaja et al. [67]	Parabolic trough and compound parabolic concentrator	Process heating	Numerical	Water	75	Steam	Milk
Bandyopadhyay [68]	None	Cooking and frying	Numerical	Therminol 55	202	Therminol 55	Vegetables and roti
Abd-Elhady et al. [69]	parabolic trough	Cooking	Experimental	Mobil-Therm 605	165	Mobil-Therm 605	None
Agrawal and Yadav [70]	Parabolic dish	Cooking	Experimental	sand, stone pebbles, iron grits and iron balls	117	None	Rice
Prasanna and Umanand [71]	Paraboloid concentrating collector	Cooking	Numerical	Servo-thermal oil	None	Servo-thermal oil	None
Mawire et al. [72]	Parabolic dish	Cooking	Numerical	Thermal oil	200	Thermal oil	None
Mawire et al. [34].	Parabolic dish	Cooking	Experimental and Numerical	Thermal oil	100	Thermal oil	Olive oil and Water
Badran et al. [73]	Parabolic dish	Cooking	Experimental	Water	100	Water	Water
Murty et al. [74]	Parabolic dish	Cooking	Experimental	Soya oil	85	Soya oil	Oil, water and rice
Craig and Dobson [75]	Parabolic dish	Cooking and baking	Experimental	Shell S2 oil	100	Shell S2 oil	Water
Mbodji and Hajji [76]	Parabolic dish	Cooking	Experimental and Numerical	Synthetic oil SAE-40	∼85	Synthetic oil SAE-40	None
Senthil and Cheralathan [77]	Parabolic dish	Cooking	Experimental	Sunflower oil, sand, stone pebbles, iron grits, steel balls, coconut oil and olive oil	100	None	Water
Nyahoro et al. [78]	Parabolic concentrator	Cooking	Numerical	Granite and cast iron	100	None	Water
Lokeswaran and Eswaramoorthy [79]	Parabolic dish	Cooking and frying	Experimental	Waste metal chips	118	None	Eggs and water
Kedida et al. [80]	Parabolic concentrator	Cooking	Experimental and Numerical	Pebbles	99	Air	Water
Wollele and Hassen [81].	Parabolic dish	Cooking	Experimental	Engine oil and rocks	82	None	Water
Ayub et al. [82].	Scheffler dish	Baking	Experimental and Numerical	Rocks	180	Air	Variety of food
Raza et al. [83]	Scheffler dish	Roasting	Experimental and Numerical	Shell S2 oil	180	Shell S2 oil	Groundnuts
Mawire et al. [84]	Parabolic dish	Cooking	Experimental	Sunflower oil	145	None```	Varieties of food
Nazari et al. [85]	Parabolic dish	Baking	Experimental and Numerical	None	146	None	Bread