Multi-agent System for Energy Management of Renewable Energy in Domestic Cooking

As we are using many homes appliances day by day, the energy consumption is increasing. As fossil fuels are depleting and demand is increasing, it is important to move toward renewable energy even in domestic areas. Energy used for cooking is in large amount in developing countries. Almost 80% of energy which among household is used as cooking energy in rural areas. This cooking need is substituted with biofuels such as fuelwood, charcoal, agro-residues and dung cakes. Many efforts have been taken specially in India to use biofuels and renewable energy for domestic cooking. In this paper, energy trapped from solar is used as source of energy for induction stove. Induction stove is widely used in recent days because of its high efficiency and safety. Induction cooking uses the principle of electromagnetic induction. By inducing eddy currents in the coil, the coil gets excited in the ferromagnetic material to cause heating (MNES in Annual Report: 1993–94. Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources (MNES), Government of India, New Delhi, India [1]). This paper aims to design a solar powered induction cooktop that is supplemented by the mains power using half-bridge topology and control the power output by varying operating frequency both by simulation and hardware implementation.