Hazelnut Storage System with Integrated Circulation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Hazelnut processing facilities face challenges in continuous feeding and heating issues during storage, requiring constant personnel intervention and additional transportation steps due to moisture-related problems, with existing storage systems not adequately addressing these issues for hazelnuts.
Innovation Solution
A storage system with multiple chambers, featuring a feeding device, discharge device, and transfer elevator for systematic loading, evacuation, and circulation of hazelnuts, utilizing spiral conveyor-type carriers for transportation and renewable energy sources to reduce energy load, enabling efficient and automated hazelnut storage and processing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If hazelnuts are accumulated in storages or stacks using spiral-type carriers, then transportation can be carried out without damaging the hazelnuts, but continuous feeding is required and personnel intervention is constantly needed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the storage chamber with integrated feeding and discharge devices into a single unified system. The feeding device and discharge device are merged with the storage chamber to form an integrated storage system that automatically manages hazelnut accumulation without requiring external spiral carriers or continuous personnel intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The storage system is designed to be self-sufficient by incorporating automatic feeding mechanisms and discharge devices that operate without continuous human intervention. The system manages its own filling and emptying processes through integrated mechanical components that respond to storage level conditions.
2Reliability
If hazelnuts are stored in accumulation places, then processing capacity limitations can be overcome, but heating problems occur due to moisture accumulation
Solution Approach 1:
The transfer elevator implements periodic action by circulating hazelnuts at intervals rather than maintaining continuous motion. This periodic circulation prevents moisture accumulation and heating by regularly redistributing the stored hazelnuts, allowing them to cool and dry between circulation cycles while maintaining storage capacity.
Solution Approach 2:
The transfer elevator provides continuous circulation of hazelnuts within the storage chamber, ensuring that no portion of the stored hazelnuts remains stationary for extended periods. This continuous movement prevents localized moisture accumulation and temperature rise that would occur in static storage conditions.
3Reliability
If hazelnuts need to be moved due to heating issues, then quality can be maintained, but additional transportation procedures are required
Solution Approach 1:
The transfer elevator merges the functions of circulation and quality maintenance into a single integrated component within the storage system. Instead of requiring separate transportation procedures to address heating issues, the transfer elevator combines circulation, cooling, and quality preservation functions in one device that operates continuously or periodically as needed.
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AI summary
At least one storage system with at least one chamber in which hazelnuts can be accumulated over a period of time. The novelty of the invention is characterized in that it comprises at least one feeding device that can allow the loading of hazelnuts into the chamber by means of transport elements, at least one discharge device that can allow the evacuation of the hazelnuts in the chamber by means of transport elements, at least one transfer elevator that can take the hazelnuts from the discharge device and load them into the feeding device to ensure that the hazelnuts in the chamber are at least partially circulated.