About these web pages

These pages summarize our experiences on testing of a number of heat storage solutions for cooking. The work started with Prof. Jorgen Lovseth at NTNU, Physics Department, and has continued through a number of joint projects with African universities. Prof. Lovseth has been an inspirational scientist for students and staff in the early project, and the work he initiated has continued and been extended after his retirement.

The early work was with solar concentrators for heat collection. We later moved to indirect systems with Photo Voltaics (PV) for energy collection, as the cost of PV came down. The systems suggested for piloting for cooking and frying are based on PV, and with both sensible heat storage (mainly for cooking) and latent heat storage (mainly for frying). Most concepts are also open for hybrid power sources, PV and wind power.

Direct heat collection methods are used for refrigeration systems and for hot water applications, as the temperature requirements of the energy source are lower than for cooking.

About us

The research work we do is largely together with project, master and PhD students. The master thesis work at NTNU is rather short, so progress in our work will often be through a series of student projects. Names associated with the NTNU laboratory work described in the following web pages are given here (names in web pages). More work is made at the partner universities, and needs to be compiled in addition. Some background on OJ is given here (who is OJ) with a supervision list (researchers).