SISTEMA PILOTO AUTOMATIZADO PARA LA COCCIÓN DE ALIMENTOS UTILIZANDO LA ENERGÍA SOLAR EN CURITÍ SANTANDER

Abstract

Energy consumption has been increasing year after year, this is a direct indicator of the economic and industrial development of the country, where as the quality of life increases, energy expenditure increases to produce goods and services; According to Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century - REN21 (2021, p.1) 80% of the world’s energy needs are sustained by fossil fuels, in turn there are sectors of the population that cannot access gas and electricity services, so they use firewood and coal for cooking food, generating negative impacts on the environment., The World Health Organization WHO (2022) indicates that, in 2020, it has been estimated that this domestic air pollution caused 3.2 million deaths, including 237,000 deaths of children under 5 years of age. It is for the above that the main objective of this project was to generate a technological alternative that uses solar energy, proposing the development of an automated pilot system as an efficient alternative in the food cooking process as a solution to the needs of the Hotel Villa Lucy in the municipality of Curití. Several phases were carried out for the elaboration of this prototype, where one of them was the collection of data through primary sources, through field and secondary observation through technological surveillance, finding experiences of the inhabitants of rural sites, areas not intercommunicated or with little access to public services; collecting information for the elaboration of conceptual sketches, CAD and electronic designs, seeking to maximize the main aspects such as structure, the materials with which it was manufactured and its electronic components, with the development of the prototype its final phase was carried out which was to perform functional tests of the device evidencing the efficiency at the time of carrying out the food cooking process, in turn the intervention of the user was not necessary during its process; since this control was in charge of solar tracking, guaranteeing an excellent concentration of heat complying with the temperature requirements, becoming a feasible solution.