Kitchen Garbage Processing Apparatus with Segmented Heating and Stirring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current kitchen garbage processing equipment is inefficient, prone to uneven heating, and fails to effectively utilize organic components, posing environmental and health risks due to mixed collection and transportation methods.
Innovation Solution
A fully enclosed processing apparatus with a transportation chain, shredder blades, fermentation chamber, deodorant chamber, and spiral discharger, featuring multiple stirring mechanisms and a monitoring system for controlled heating and deodorization, along with automatic cleaning and real-time weighing, ensures safe and efficient processing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If prior art kitchen garbage processing equipment is used, then processing can be performed, but uneven heating occurs causing burnt material
Solution Approach 1:
The heating system is segmented into multiple heating zones with independent heating elements distributed throughout the fermentation chamber. This segmentation allows different regions to be heated independently, ensuring uniform temperature distribution and preventing localized overheating that causes burnt material.
Solution Approach 2:
Temperature sensors are installed throughout the fermentation chamber to monitor temperature distribution in real-time. The monitoring system provides feedback to the control unit, which automatically adjusts the heating power of individual heating zones to maintain uniform temperature, preventing burnt material while ensuring reliable processing.
2Stability of the object's composition
If prior art processing equipment is used, then garbage can be processed, but poor stirring effect results in poor fermentation
Solution Approach 1:
The stirring and fermentation functions are merged into an integrated system where the main stirring shaft with multiple stirring wheels serves both to mix the material uniformly and to facilitate fermentation. This combination ensures that the entire material volume is evenly processed, improving both fermentation quality and processing efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The stirring system employs variable speed control and multiple stirring wheels rotating at different speeds and directions. This dynamic stirring approach ensures thorough mixing of kitchen garbage with varying viscosities and densities, preventing dead zones and ensuring uniform fermentation throughout the material, thereby improving both quality and efficiency.
3Ease of operation
If mixed collection and transportation of kitchen garbage is used, then collection is simplified, but separation of renewable resources becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and separates renewable organic resources from kitchen garbage through the fermentation process. The fermentation chamber separates biodegradable organic matter that can be converted into useful products, while the deodorant chamber removes harmful substances. This extraction enables effective utilization of renewable resources even from mixed collected garbage.
4Productivity
If prior art equipment is used, then processing can occur, but high cost with lower efficiency is incurred
Solution Approach 1:
The processing apparatus integrates multiple functions into a single system: shredding, fermentation, stirring, heating, deodorization, and monitoring. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate equipment for each process, reducing overall equipment cost while improving processing efficiency through coordinated operation of all functions within one integrated system.
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 apparatus effectively recovers resources from kitchen garbage by preventing overheating, ensuring deodorization, and providing a safe, efficient, and reliable processing system with automatic monitoring and maintenance, enhancing the utilization of organic components and reducing environmental threats.
Implementation Method 1
a heating plate is provided on a side wall of the fermentation chamber
Implementation Method 2
the shredder blades are provided with spraying holes for automatic cleaning to avoid blockage
Implementation Method 3
four layers of deodorant fillers comprising activated carbons, a molecular sieve
Implementation Method 4
components of renewable resources such as organic components could not be effectively utilized
Data Source
AI summary
Provided is a processing apparatus for quick resource recovery of kitchen garbage, configured as a fully enclosed silo and comprising: a transportation chain configured to drive a charger to lift up and down with a feed port correspondingly disposed above the transportation chain, shredder blades being provided within the feed port to shred materials; a fermentation chamber below the shredder blades, a main stirring shaft being horizontally provided within the fermentation chamber, two secondary stirring wheels being provided on the main stirring shaft at two respective side walls of the fermentation chamber, at the respective side walls the main stirring shaft is connected onto the fermentation chamber the main stirring shaft configured to be rotated in a direction opposite to that of the secondary stirring wheels; the main stirring shaft being provided with stirring paddles; a spiral discharger horizontally provided below the main stirring shaft and provided with a discharge port at one end thereof; a deodorant chamber provided at one side of the feed port, four layers of spaces for placing deodorant fillers therein being arranged within the deodorant chamber, the four layers of deodorant fillers comprising activated carbons, a molecular sieve, a mixture of compost product as well as fungal chaff and lees, and a mixture of wood cuttings and straws in an up-to-down order; the deodorant chamber being provided with an air inlet at its bottom and with an air outlet and a monitor at its top.