Table 3.

A summary of parabolic solar concentrating cookers with latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES).

Author	Type of concentrator	Application	Type of study	Storage material	Maximum cooking/storage temperature (oC)	Heat transfer fluid/working fluid	Test load
Saini et al. [86]	Parabolic trough	Cooking	Experimental	Acetanilide	76	Water and engine	Rice and pulse
Mussard and Nydal [87]	Parabolic trough	Cooking and frying	Experimental and Numerical	Potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate	200	Duratherm 630	Water and meat
Beemkumar et al. [88]	Parabolic trough	Heat storage	Experimental	D-mannitol, d-sorbitol, and paraffin wax	300	Therminol-66	None
Mussard et al. [89]	Parabolic trough and parabolic dish	Cooking And frying	Experimental	Potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate	130	Therminol-66	Meat
Kumaresan et al. [90]	Parabolic trough	Cooking	Experimental and Numerical	D-Mannitol	167	Therminol-66	Dosa (thick pancake)
Kumar and Pandian [91]	Parabolic trough	Cooking	Experimental	Stearic acid	120	Waste engine oil and water	None
Abu-Hamdeh et al. [92]	Parabolic trough	Cooking and water heating	Experimental	Acetamide	90	Air	Rice
Manikandan et al. [93]	Parabolic trough	Cooking	Experimental and Numerical	D-Mannitol	80	Therminol 55	None
Beemkumar et al. [88]	Parabolic trough	Heat storage	Experimental	D-mannitol, D-sorbitol and paraffin wax	∼300	Therminol-66	None
Guerraiche et al. [94]	Parabolic trough	Heat storage	Experimental	Potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate	120	Water	None
Lamrani et al. [95]	Parabolic trough	Heat storage and water heating	Experimental	RT-55, RT-42 and RT-65	80	Water	None
Alimohammadi et al. [96]	Parabolic trough	Dryer	Experimental and Numerical	Paraffin was	80	Engine oil	Slices of banana
Keith et al. [97]	Parabolic dish	Cooking	Experimental and Numerical	Stearic acid	59	None	Rice, lentil and pearled barley
Tesfay et al. [98]	Parabolic dish	Cooking	Experimental	Potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate	∼237	Steam	Eggs
Bhave and Kale et al. [99]	Parabolic dish	Cooking	Experimental	Potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate	180	None	Potatoes and rice
Malik et al. [100]	Parabolic dish	Cooking and heating	Experimental and Numerical	Potassium alum	92	Ethylene glycol and water	None
Senthil [101]	Scheffler dish	Cooking	Experimental	Potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate	300	None	Water
Lecuona et al. [102]	Parabolic dish	Cooking	Experimental and Numerical	Erythritol and paraffin	170	None	Water
Tao et al. [103].	Paraboloid solar collector	Heat storage	Numerical	Lithium fluorine And calcium fluoride	508	Not sure	None
Senthil and Cheralathan [104]	Scheffler dish	Heat storage	Experimental	Magnesium chloride hexahydrate	160	None	None
Senthil and Cheralathan [105]	Parabolic dish	Cooking	Experimental	Paraffin wax	90	None	Water
Tesfay et al. [106]	Parabolic collector	Cooking and baking	Experimental and Numerical	Potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate	150	Water	Injera
Chaudhary et al. [107].	Parabolic dish	Cooking	Experimental	Acetanilide	85	None	Water
Yadav and Yadav [108]	Parabolic dish	Cooking	Experimental	Acetamide	71	None	Water, rice and pulses
Rekha and Sukchai [109]	Parabolic dish	Cooking	Experimental	Salt hydrate	100	None	Not sure
Bhave and Thakare [110]	Parabolic dish	Cooking	Experimental	Magnesium chloride hexahydrate	129	Taurus Therm 500	Rice
Veremachi et al. [111]	Parabolic dish	Cooking and frying	Experimental	Potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate	220	None	None
Floess [112]	Parabolic dish	Cooking and frying	Experimental and Numerical	Potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate	334	None	Meat
Sreepathi et al. [113]	“Butterfly” parabolic collector	Cooking	Experimental	Oxalic acid	100	None	Water
Panchal and Sadasivuni [114]	Scheffler dish	Cooking	Experimental	Acetamide	57	None	Rice
Abreha et al. [115]	Parabolic dish	Cooking and heat storage	Numerical	Potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate	230	Thermal oil	None
Tesfay et al. [116]	Parabolic dish	Baking	Numerical	Potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate	150	Water	Injera
Yadav et al. [117]	Parabolic dish	Cooking	Experimental	Acetamide	70	None	Rice
Hosseinzadeh et al. [118]	Parabolic dish	Cooking	Experimental		95	Behran thermal oil	Water
Senthil [119]	Scheffler dish	Heat storage	Experimental	Potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate	315	Water	None
Thirunavukkarasu et al. [120]	Scheffler dish	Heat storage	Experimental	Potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate	∼225	Water	None
Gabisa and Aman [121]		Cooking and heat storage	Experimental	Potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate	300	None	None
Foong et al. [122]	Parabolic dish	Heat storage, cooking and baking	Experimental and Numerical	Potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate	260	None	None