Solar Oven

(made from Pizza box)

Presented by: Hoang Ngoc, Le Minh

Worakamon Napavorakul
Natthawan Jitsuparp
Chosiya Losuwonkul
objective
- Able to understand how energy is conserved.
- Heat the environment inside box to able to heat food.
Background Information
+ Benefit in weather
+ Use the natural resources, turn sunlight into something useful
+ Go green!
Introduction
❖ Solar power is one of the most abundant sources of renewable
energy refluxing from the Sun
❖ Sunlight is important to living things on Earth
❖ Energy is renew in cycle from one thing to another
❖ Thermodynamic principle
Introduction
SOLAR OVEN
❖ Absorb heat energy
❖ Are more commonly used to cook food and pasteurize water
❖ Energy transfers from potential energy back to kinetic energy
❖ Some materials are better conductors in transferring energy
Discussion Of Design
Our group use a pizza box as an oven.
● Inside – wrap a plastic wrap and cover an aluminum foil
○ two layers

● Middle of the opening part is cut like a pizza box shape then wrap
it with an aluminum foil.
○ To reflect sunlight into the box
Discussion of Physic Concept
SOLAR ENERGY
➔ is the central concept in science
➔ Two main forms: potential and kinetic.
◆ Thermal energy (heat).

➔ The sun’s energy & temperature: enhance the rate that food uses
to cook.
➔ law of conservation of energy: energy can’t be created or
destroyed, but it; however, can be transform from one form to
another.
Discussion of Physic Concept
SOLAR ENERGY (con)
➔ The food got heated up by UV rays from the sun that is converted
to energy in the form of heat.
◆ The oven traps UV rays inside their isolated system, then transforms
them into infrared light rays.

◆ The rays vibrates the molecule in fat, water and protein molecules in
food and thus, heat them up.
Discussion of Physic Concept
Materials
● Cardboard pizza box
● Box knife or scissors
● Aluminum foil
● Clear tape
● Plastic wrap
● Ruler
● Thermometer
Procedure
● Cut the lid of the pizza box in 3 sides (leave about an inch). Fold the
flap.
● Cover inside the flap with aluminum foil. Tightly wrap foil around the
flap and tape it.
● Use a double layer of plastic wrap to create an airtight. Leave about
an inch around the sides, tape each side down and sealing out air.
● Take it outside to a sunny spot and adjust the flap until the most
sunlight reflecting the aluminum foil and the plastic covered window.
Use a ruler to prop the flap at the right angle.
Set up
Data and Result
Data and Result
Data and Result
https://youtu.be/t
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Analysis of Data
★ The waffle is heated in the sun at 1:30 - 3:30 pm with the
temperature of 37 degree Celsius. The temp dropped down to 32
degree celsius during the two hours.
★ The temperature of the isolated environment inside of the oven is
estimately moving in the number of 38 to 39. While the outside
temperature dropped down ironically.
★ The waffle hardened and burnt a little.
Conclusion
As in the final conclusion that refer to our objectives. The energy
is conserved because the air is isolated from an inside of the box.
Also to overheat the pizza box helps to increase more efficiently in
heating food.
Suggestion
Some suggestions that we would like to mention for a better result
when this experiment is being repeated are:
1. Check the weather before placing the box in the sun
2. Check the cardinal direction – where they are most exposed to
sunlight
3. Cut the foil a little bit bigger than the actual box