Solar Powered Induction Cooking System

Abstract

The Chulha cooking module used predominantly in rural parts of India uses firewood and dung-based fuel. Subsequently, they generate a lot of indoor pollution causing staggering damage to human health. More than 50 million people in India nevertheless use this cooking module whose effects are so detrimental. In a bid to replace this conventional methodology, a Solar Powered Induction based cooking system was proposed. This induction based heating being a noncontact heating technique can easily reach greater temperature within a shorter span of time. The subsequent system is more appealing by catering better efficiency, safety and accurate output control. For this research we have capitalized the solar energy as the fundamental source that powers the induction stove. The primary objective of this paper is to model an induction cooking system that capitalizes solar energy with the quasi resonant topology and control the output by using Pulse Width Modulation.