The International Solar Energy Society offers webinars to the global society. There are two Solar Food Processing webinars that give you a deep insight into the world of solar cooking and solar food processing:
1. Solar Food Processing for Income Generation
2. Solar Cookers Performanve Evaluation
Webinar: Solar Food Processing for Income Generation
The webinar was held on Wednesday the 11th of March 2015 at 15:00 GMT/UTC.
Expert speakers show examples of how solar food processing can be a profitable business venture. The panelist speakers present case studies where individuals and companies use solar cooking techniques to earn their living and have made a successful and professional business.
Solar food processing is an innovative and multi-faceted technique capable of addressing various problems faced by people in the developing world. The implementation of technologies for food processing and conservation using solar energy can indirectly help to reduce poverty, improve health conditions, create sustainable local economic opportunities, and limit environmental damage by promoting the use of clean and renewable energy sources. (Content from the Solar Cookers International Network)
ISES is pleased to have the following experts speaking in this webinar:
- Rolf Behringer, moderator, Solare Zukunft
- Heike Hoedt, Simply Solar
- Dr. Michael Goetz, Cocina Solar Mexico
- Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Scheffler, Solare Bruecke
Speakers:
Moderator: Rolf Behringer founded ULOG Freiburg in 1993 has worked in many countries, especially in Africa, implementing solar cooker productions and trained experts in the field of solar cooking. In 2005 he initiated the Solar Food Processing Network. He is the director of Solare Zukunft, with whom this webinar is organized together with. Rolf Behringers presentation.
Heike Hoedt from Simply Solar will emphasize the necessity to broaden up the term "solar food processing". She will present examples on the use of solar energy for food processing that show the variety of technology and processes applied world wide, at the same time taking into account limitations like high one-time investment and a need for a certain system complexity in industrial applications to guarantee continuous processes. Webinar presentation by Heike Hoedt.
Dr. Michael Goetz holds a Ph.D. in technical sciences (photovoltaïcs). He has 15 scientific publications as first author (29 as co-author). He has a company offering consultancy and solar trainings (ExSol, Geneva) and coordinates the solar food processing project in Mexico since 2009. He works part time as international solar trainer for Greenpeace.
Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Scheffler, inventor of the flexible parabolic fix-focus reflector ("Scheffler Reflector") and president of Germany-based NGO Solare Brücke e.V., will describe the use of locally manufactured concentrating technology for processing needs. For temperatures above 100°C Scheffler Reflectors provide steam in numerous applications in processing industry. The biggest application being large solar kitchens in India.
Webinar: Solar Cooker Performance Evaluation
This webinar was organized together with Solar Cookers International. Published on 04.08.2017
Speakers:
Julie Greene (Executive Director, Solar Cookers International)
- Overview of solar cooking and responding to the need for solar cooker evaluations
Dr. Paul Funk (Member, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers)
- The ASAE S580.1 protocol for Testing and Reporting Solar Cooker Performance
Dr. Alan Bigelow (Science Director, Solar Cookers International)
- Implementing the SCI Performance Evaluation Process (PEP)
Anne Patterson (Founder and CEO, Solavore)
- The value of solar cooker PEP results: a manufacturer's perspective
speakers biographies and more details here:
Webinar: Concentrating Solar Thermal Power with Built in Storage