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Amir Komarizade 2006

Amirmehdi Komarizade

Amirmehdi Komarizade lives in Tehran, Iran, and has been designing and building a variety of solar cookers since 2007. They include the Solar Picnic, solar cooker mounting approaches, and solar PV thermal cooking.

News[]

  • August 2022: New solar dryer - Amirmehdi presents his latest construction, an updraft style solar dryer. It takes advantage of natural convective currents to move air up through the dryer, taking the moist air up and out. The hot air created by the external collector enters from the upper part of the chamber, and after getting moisture of the product becomes heavy and cold. The second collector, which is inside the container helps the first collector, and has the role of a solar chimney for suction from the bottom of the chamber where the moisture of the product collects.
  • June 2020: Amirmehdi is working on a solar wall oven concept, which is currently under construction, Photo credit: Amirmehdi Komarizade.


  • November 2017: Amirmehdi has been testing a solar cooker mounting system, similar to the gimbal mounts used on Donsonian style telescopes, and using PV power to generate enough energy to boil water in a small vessel.
  • September 2017: Amirmehdi hopes to create an "Energy Café" at the institute where he works where food would be cooked in solar cookers.
Amir Komarizade Energy Cafe design 2017

The proposed "Energy Café"

Amir Komarizade with unique water vessel, 12-14-15

Amirmehdi with his Solar Picnic and unique water heating vessel.

Amir Komarizade baked pumpkin 2017
  • December 2015: Amirmehdi is shown with his Solar Picnic panel cooker. He is heating water with a unique bottle of his own design. It has a heat-absorbing black interior structure with a waffle-like surface to maximize the area available to sunlight.
  • December 2015: Amirmehdi reports that he taught solar cooking at the Nioofar Solar House, and has now returned to lab management at Sharif University.

Audio and video[]

  • November 2021:
SolarPicnic_pot-2

SolarPicnic pot-2

The Solar Picnic is a panel solar cooker that can boil about a half liter of water in 20 minutes in its special pot


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Contact[]

Amirmehdi Komarizade
Flat 11, 4th Floor
No. 4, Yas Alley
Mehraban St., Kooye Laleh, Artesh Highway
TEHRAN
Iran

Cell Phone: +98-921 205 32 65

Email: am.komarizade@gmail.com