CONSOLFOOD 2018

CONSOLFOOD 2018 took place in Faro, Portugal in January 2018. It was hosted again by Professor Celestino Ruivo, at the Institute of Engineering, University of the Algarve. Between sixty and eighty people attended the lectures, poster sessions, and a round table discussion about solar thermal food processing over the three-day conference. Twenty-four lectures and fifteen posters were presented. Throughout the conference, there was a large display of diverse solar cooking/drying equipment, and, thanks to sunny weather, most of the food was cooked with solar cookers. Once again, the conference generated an intimate, supportive, “solar family” atmosphere that enabled the participants to swap knowledge and experiences during breaks in the programme.
==Presentations==
*The Solar Cooker Tolokatsin V () - Eduardo Rincón-Mejía
*Solar Cookers International Test Stations for a Performance Evaluation Process Motivate a Network of Testing Centers () - Alan Bigelow, et al
*Simulation of a Solar Assisted Counterflow Tunnel Dehydrator () - A. Carrillo-Andrés
*Introduction of Solar Drying by NGO Narmada in Nimar Region of Madhya Pradesh State of India Under the Guidance of Barc, Goi () - Raghav Deosthale, et al
*Performance Testing of a Solar Thermal Fruit Dryer (, ) - Ricardo Bernardo & Pia Otte
*A Parabolic Solar Cooking System with Heat Storage for Indoor Cooking (, ) - Ndiaga Mbodji & Ali Hajji
*Solar Cooker as Public Furniture, and the Thermal Modeling Involved (, ) - Antonio Lecuona-Neumann, et al
*Hot Stones Cooking with an Ultralight Membrane Solar Concentrator () - Fernando Chacon
*Tamera-FixFocus: Membrane FixFocus Mirror as Multifunctional Solar Power Station (, ) - Jürgen Kleinwächter
*Solar Cookers International Report Recent Gains in Global Solar Cooking Movement (, ) - Julie Greene, et al
*Heliac Solar Cooker (, ) - Sedi Byskov
*Photovoltaic Solar Cooking with Thermal Energy Storage (TES) (, ) - Antonio Lecuona-Neumann, et al
*Beam Steering Lens Arrays for Solar Cooking (, ) - Håkon J Dugstad Johnsen, et al
*Development of Solar Dryers, Cuban Experience for Food Preservation (, ) - Boris A. Zaldívar Núñez, et al
*DryEcoMate – An Horticultural Dehydrator, Using Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Energy, Low Cost Production, Modular and Portable (, ) - J. Garcia, et al
*Concentrated Solar Thermal Integration into Spice Roasting Industry: An Energy Analysis of an Indian Masala Manufacturing Facility (, ) - Tavish Fenbert
*Father Himalaya Solar Furnaces - Optical Principles, Technologies, and Lineage (, ) - Jean-Jacques Serra, et al
*A Comparison of Copenhagen Solar Cookers with Other Similar Sized Solar Cookers (, ) - Sharon Clausson
*Challenges in Promoting Solar Cookers in India (, ) - Neha Mehta, et al
*Creating Programs to Promote Solar Cooking (, ) - Jennifer L. Gasser and Mary Buchenic
*Networking to Advance the Use of Solar Cookers as Educational Tools in the Classroom (, ) - Mary Buchenic, et al
*Restaurant Solaire - Le Présage (, ) - Pierre-André Aubert
*Solar Concentrator Evolution in India and Way Ahead (, ) - Deepak Gadhia
*The Broken Promise of Solar Cooking? The Case of Goidoubo Refugee Camp (, ) - Isabella Troconis
* - Pia Otte, et al
*From development aid towards an economic factor: sustainable production of clean cookstoves in Madagascar (, ) - Christian Frost
==Posters==
* - Michael Bonke
* - Jignesh Mehta, Celestino Ruivo
* - Hezi Yizhaq & Daniel Feuermann
* - Juan Bello Llorente
* - Dave Oxford and Stewart Maclachlan
* - Sharon Clausson
* - V. Avinash Reddy, et al
* - Dave Oxford, et al
* - Ademola K. Aremu, et al
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*May 2018: Sharon Clausson interview at CONSOLFOOD 2018 - Michael Bonke interviewed Sharon Clausson about the Copenhagen Solar Cooker Light, and her impressions of the CONSOLFOOD 2018 conference. The interview begins in German for the first minute and then changes to English for the majority of the program.
*January 2018: 
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==See also==
*CONSOLFOOD 2023
*CONSOLFOOD 2022
*CONSOLFOOD 2016
*Solar Food Processing Network
*Conferences
==External links==
*Presentations and posters presented at the conference
*Photographs taken at the conference
*http://www.consolfood.org
==Contact==
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