Rotating Beer Ice Drum for Fast Draft Beer Cooling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for serving draft beer require large refrigerators to cool the beer and dispensing system, leading to increased electricity costs and inefficient cooling, which affects the flavor and temperature of the beer.
Innovation Solution
A device that processes ice by rotating a cylindrical ice-making unit at sub-zero temperatures to form a beer ice layer, which is then pulverized and supplied to the beer, allowing for direct and efficient cooling of beer in a container.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If draft beer is stored in a refrigerator to be cooled, then the beer temperature is reduced to desired level, but a very big refrigerator is required and electricity cost is increased
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the cooling function from a large refrigerator system and relocates it to a compact ice-making unit that produces ice separately. The ice is then added to beer in a dispenser, providing cooling without requiring a large refrigerated storage space for the beer itself.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the cooling process into two independent parts: (1) ice-making unit that produces ice cubes, and (2) dispenser that adds ice to beer. This separation allows the beer to be stored at higher temperatures while still achieving cooled beer delivery through ice addition.
2Temperature
If draft beer is stored in a refrigerator to be cooled, then the beer temperature is reduced to desired level, but it takes long time to cool draft beer
Solution Approach 1:
The ice-making unit produces ice cubes in advance and stores them separately. When beer needs to be served, pre-made ice is quickly added to the dispenser, providing immediate cooling without requiring time-consuming cooling of the beer itself.
3Temperature
If the container to contain draft beer is cooled in the refrigerator, then the beer is cooled, but room temperature rises easily
Solution Approach 1:
The cooling effect is extracted from the beer container and transferred to ice cubes that are added separately. This allows the beer to remain at higher temperatures in the container while still achieving the desired cold beer temperature through ice addition at dispensing.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The device enables the direct production and pulverization of ice for beer, improving the flavor and temperature consistency of beer, reducing electricity costs, and providing a more efficient cooling method compared to traditional refrigeration systems.
Implementation Method 1
having the outer peripheral surface maintained at sub-zero temperature
Implementation Method 2
the pulverizing unit contacts the beer ice layer so as to pulverize the beer ice layer and separate the beer ice layer from the ice-making unit
Data Source
AI summary
A device for processing ice for ice beer comprising a body, a pair of installation tables, an ice-making unit having a cylindrical shape, and rotatable shafts being formed on the ice-making unit. The outer surface of the ice-making unit is maintained at a sub-freezing temperature. There is a driving unit configured to rotate the shafts, a storage unit positioned below the ice-making unit, and a storage space concavely formed in an upper surface of the storage unit. A supply unit installed on the body to store and drop beer. A pulverizing unit is plate shaped and an end thereof is adjacent to the ice-making unit. Beer is supplied from the supply unit to the storage space. The ice-making unit is rotated to contact the beer and form a beer ice layer thereon. The pulverizing unit separates the beer ice layer from the ice-making unit.