Gas Oven Air Supply Segmentation for Complete Combustion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Gas ovens with dividers face challenges in maintaining efficient combustion and temperature control across partitioned cooking spaces due to interference from waste gases and uneven air supply, leading to incomplete combustion and inconsistent cooking results.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of an auxiliary air supply unit that forcibly supplies fresh air to the first burner, located in the upper portion, and a separate exhaust system for the second burner, located in the lower portion, to prevent waste gas interference and ensure consistent combustion across both cooking spaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the cooking space is partitioned by a divider to create multiple cooking zones, then cooking versatility is improved, but air supply uniformity deteriorates leading to incomplete combustion
Solution Approach 1:
The air supply system is segmented into multiple independent air supply units, with each unit responsible for a specific burner zone. This segmentation allows each burner to receive adequate air supply independently, preventing incomplete combustion while maintaining the divided cooking space structure.
Solution Approach 2:
Different air supply strategies are applied to different zones based on their specific combustion requirements. The first air supply unit serves the first burner with appropriate air flow, while the second air supply unit serves the second burner separately, ensuring each zone has optimized air supply quality for complete combustion.
2Device complexity
If waste gases from the second burner are not separately exhausted, then device complexity is reduced, but harmful gas interference increases affecting combustion quality
Solution Approach 1:
The exhaust system is segmented into separate exhaust pathways for different burners. The first exhaust unit handles waste gases from the first burner, while the second exhaust unit handles waste gases from the second burner independently, preventing cross-contamination and harmful gas interference in the cooking spaces.
Solution Approach 2:
Separate exhaust units act as intermediaries between each burner and the external environment, channeling waste gases through dedicated pathways that prevent mixing with fresh air supplies and eliminate harmful gas interference with combustion processes.
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
This solution enhances combustion efficiency and temperature control, preventing incomplete combustion and ensuring consistent cooking results by providing fresh air to the first burner and effectively managing waste gases, thereby improving the overall performance of the gas oven.
Implementation Method 1
an auxiliary air supply unit that forcibly supplies fresh air to the first burner, located in the upper portion
Implementation Method 2
a burner for generating heat by burning gas and air
Implementation Method 3
Warm air can rise and cold air can lower by the difference in density
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AI summary
Disclosed herein are a gas oven and a control method thereof. The control method of the gas oven, that includes a cooking space that is divided into a first cooking space and a second cooking space by a removable divider, a burner that directly heats a cooked object accommodated in the first cooking space, and an auxiliary heater that heats air of the first cooking space, includes performing baking for the first cooking space when a baking mode for the first cooking space is selected among a plurality of cooking modes, wherein the baking may include operating the burner according to the comparison result of a temperature of the first cooking space and a first setting temperature, and operating the auxiliary heater according to the comparison result of the temperature of the first cooking space and a second setting temperature.