Future solar kitchen design with backup facility

Abstract: Firewood has been used as fuel since the beginning of mankind resulted in health problems and deforestation. The solar cooking technology has been first developed in 1767 by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure but did not find development due to lack of reliability. Studies showed the necessity of having a backup facility. The primary goal of this study is to design a fully functional kitchen for National Park in Nairobi, Kenya. The kitchen will be serving up to 100 people daily. The study is done with five steps, the first step is literature and exploring of solar cooking products as well as backup facility products around the world. The second step is interviewing a local entrepreneur to get familiar with the parameters of a restaurant in Kenya. The third step is evaluating the solar cooking and backup facility to make an educated decision. The fourth step is integrating the systems into a functional kitchen. The fifth and last step is to analyse and discuss the results to draw conclusions. As a result, choosing Scheffler reflector as a solar cooker and backed up with a biogas plant would be the chosen solution.