DEVELOPMENT OF A SOLAR KETTLE FOR MILITARY APPLICATION

The need for auxiliary military hardware to sustain the wellbeing of the personnel’s during combat and to boost local technological development in the face expanding and growing level sophistication of military operations and to cut down on cost of military expenditure due to high cut of imported military hardware and equipment. As such innovation in solar heating system are being sought to achieve higher level of adaptation, flexibility and reliability for efficient military operation. In overcoming this challenges, there is need to pursue the development of solar kettle as heating device for military application using indigenous technological content. This solar heating device enable the military personnel’s to warm their food, cook noodles and warm up water for tea without releasing fumes into the air and thereby exposing their location to the enemy. The Emphasis on this work is to Design and fabricate a solar kettle thermal system which utilizes a solar conceptual system for different applications such as solar water heater, and evaluate the overall efficiency of the system. The experimental results has shown that there is an increase in the temperature which is proportional with time towards the maximum at summer season when the utmost solar radiation gets closer to perpendicular on earth. The useful energy increased steadily with the time until mid-noon. That is because that both temperature and solar radiation increased steadily up to the midday but decreased until sunset.