Automated Cooking Oil Storage and Recycle System

自动化食用油储存及回收系统

• 批准号: 10073449
• 金额: $ 12.24万
• 依托单位: BOMAC ELECTRIC LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Launchpad
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10073449
• 关键词: Automated; Cooking; Oil; Storage; Recycle

The project is to develop a smart intelligent system for safely storing waste cooking oil at commercial catering premises such as fast food restaurants and factories that have a high use of cooking oil. The system would allow for timely and efficient collection of the waste to be taken away and recycled into biodeisel. Traditionally waste cooking oil is stored in large bins or open barrels in commercial kitchens which requires staff to manually handle hot oils or lift the barrels in the kitchen creating a risk of burns, spillages, slips and other accidents.We have designed and developed a storage tank system that meets the current Health & Safety regulations and built prototypes which are being trialed in the field. We now want to build on current work and deliver additional customer benefits by developing an IoT based control and offsite monitoring system with built in telemetry measuring level and system status. This system would allow the automated handling of waste cooking oils within fast food outlets and food factories. The IoT based system would provide offsite monitoring and alerts enabling timely collections ensuring the waste collectors can remove the waste safely only when required, removing unnecessary truck rolls and therefore reducing the impact on the environment. In addition both the collection company and their customer could monitor the oil usage ensuring transparency in oil rebates and usage. Remote communication would allow for contactless collections whilst preventing theft and providing system diagnostics to ensure consistent performance. According to an article by the BBC theft of waste cooking oil costs the Treasury approx £25M a year in lost duty. The company we are working with operates a biorefinery to the very highest environmental standards. The biodiesel it produces is made even more sustainable because the refinery has an integral anaerobic digestion plant that generates the heat and power required to run it. Both are fed from different wastes collected from customers which effectively creates a closed loop recycling process for those customers who provide used cooking oil and purchase the resulting biodiesel.Currently there is no intelligent system like this in the UK but there is a system being imported from the USA. There is a patent covering the USA market but not outside of the USA. If we can manufacture the system in the UK we can reduce imports and have the opportunity to also supply to Europe.

该项目是开发一个智能的智能系统，用于在商业餐饮场所安全存储废料油，例如快餐店和高使用食用油的工厂。该系统将允许及时有效地收集废物，并将其回收为生物盘盘。传统上，废物食用油被存储在商用厨房中的大型垃圾箱或开放式桶中，这些厨房需要手动处理热油或抬起厨房的桶，从而产生烧伤，溢出，滑板和其他事故的风险。我们设计和开发了储能罐，以符合当前的健康与安全规定，并在该领域进行了试验。现在，我们希望通过当前工作来建立目前的工作，并通过开发具有内置遥测测量水平和系统状态的基于IoT的控制和异地监视系统来提供其他客户福利。该系统将允许在快餐店和食品工厂内自动处理废料油。基于物联网的系统将提供异地监视和警报，以及时收集，以确保垃圾收集器只能在需要时安全地删除废物，从而删除不必要的卡车卷，从而减少对环境的影响。此外，收集公司及其客户都可以监控石油使用情况，以确保石油回扣和使用的透明度。远程通信将允许在防止盗窃并提供系统诊断以确保持续性能的同时进行非接触式收集。根据英国广播公司（BBC）盗窃废食品油的一篇文章，财政部的费用约为国库。每年2500万英镑的失业。我们正在与之合作的公司运营着一个生物融资，达到了最高的环境标准。它产生的生物柴油的可持续性更加可持续，因为炼油厂具有不可或缺的厌氧消化厂，可以产生运行它所需的热量和功率。两者都是从客户收集的不同废物中喂养的，这些废物有效地为那些提供二手食用油并购买生成的生物柴油的客户创建了封闭的循环回收过程。目前，英国没有这样的智能系统，但是从美国进口了一个系统。有一项专利涵盖美国市场，但不在美国以外的地方。如果我们可以在英国制造该系统，我们可以减少进口量，并有机会向欧洲供应。