Green Eater Food waste composting machine by Ying-Yi Hsieh |
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| DESIGN NAME: Green Eater PRIMARY FUNCTION: Food waste composting machine INSPIRATION: In the world, we only consumed 40% food and waste 60% food. Each family average throw 1-2 Kg of food wast, only 1.6% of food waste was recycled, most of them end up in landfill and waste incinerator that generate greenhouse gases emission. How to have an ecological environment and make our Earth clean, the problem of food waste we need to face the fact, so one of solution is that design a Food Waste Composting Machine for the home user and start to work on the environmental protection from our daily life. UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Green Eater can compress the food waste to 5% of its size and convert it into valuable compost pellets for conveniently fertilizing flower, plant. Use the Screw Cylinder for drying process fast, making compost pellets at any time to provide home keeping away from bad odors, insects and growing bacteria. Also, operate and control by computerized program for energy consumption efficiency. The other unique property is that the compost pellet holder is a transparent shape, let user directly look the food waste converting to valuable stuff that represent "DEAD to ALIVE" transformation. OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: Open the top cover of Green Eater and drop the food waste into the mixing chamber, after the top cover is pushed down and closed securely for the Reed Switch detecting, the Green Eater will be turned on automatically for making compost pallets. If the top cover is opened during the processing of operation, the Green Eater will stop operation immediately. The mixing chamber equips 3 blunt blades and one fix blade driving by the computerized brushless motor, it shatters food waste to become small size fragment. The fragments will go through the slots and drop into screw cylinder, moving the fragments downward and dry them by the heater on the side wall. At the end of screw cylinder has a "Composting Press Heat Mold" the semi-drying fragments will be pressed and dried out completely to become the compost pellets. When the Green Eater completes the compost pellets, two blue lights would be lit up at the inner tube and turn off the Green Eater. Inner tube is made of heat resistant engineering plastic, protect user to reach screw cylinder. The main component of Green Eater can be taken out from the compost pellet holder easily, the other micro sensor is installed at inside of Green Eater, so the machine will be turned off automatically when it is taken out. On the compost pellet holder has scales for showing user how many food we waste on each day and educate family not to waste food. At anytime, user can pour out compost pellets for fertilizing flower, plant or taking to the garden stores for sale or exchanging goods. PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in December 2014 in Milan / Italy and finished in Taipei / Taiwan in May 2016. FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Home Appliances Design |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Applying the new technologies of Silicone Nitride Ceramic Heating Element and Brushless Motor together with the engineering plastic materials of PBT and PC designed an unique mechanical structure, such as Mixing Chamber, Screw Cylinder, Inner Tube and Compost Pellet Holder. Also, developed an extraordinary software to control the motion of brushless motor and heater to optimize power consumption for energy efficiency. The entire structure of the Green Eater is waterproof, so user can wash it directly in the sink, offer low maintenance and durability, becoming a green friendly product. SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Dimensions: 210 ( L ) mm X 210 ( W ) mm x 418 (H ) mm Power Input: 120V, 60 Hz, or 230V, 50 Hz. Power Consumption: 1.2 Amp on 120V, 0.6 Amp on 230V. TAGS: Food Waste, Screw Cylinder, Composting Press Heat Mold, Compost Pellet, Green Friendly Product. RESEARCH ABSTRACT: In the research finding lots of food waste most go to the landfill, waste incinerator and food waste disposer. But as we know, the landfill would pollute or poison the environment; the waste incinerator would consume oil and generate air pollution; the waste disposer would consume electricity and add the load of waste water treatment. In the market, the traditional food waste composting machines use ferment method that take several weeks to decompose food waste. Therefore, we spent a lot of time on the research to find a new solution and technology for making food waste to become compost pellets in the period of two to three hours. Also, researched how to shatter food waste to become small size of fragments, how to compress fragments to convert into compost pallets and involved lots of time on developing software to operate the Green Eater. CHALLENGE: The mechanical engineering structures and operating software are the hardest part, and how to design an innovative style form to coordinate with housing environment, how to convert food waste into the valuable stuff to benefit our natural cycles are a challenge too. ADDED DATE: 2016-07-09 13:01:39 TEAM MEMBERS (2) : Ying-Yi Hsieh and Wen-Yin Chen IMAGE CREDITS: Image #1: Ying-Yi Hsieh, June 2016 Image #2: Ying-Yi Hsieh, June 2016 Image #3: Ying-Yi Hsieh, June 2016 Image #4: Ying-Yi Hsieh, June 2016 Image #5: Ying-Yi Hsieh, June 2016 PATENTS/COPYRIGHTS: Copyrights belong to Ying-Yi Hsieh, 2016 |
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NAME: National Taipei University of Technology PROFILE: Established in 1912, Taipei Tech is among one of the oldest universities in Taiwan. It was first established during the Japanese Colonial Period as the Auxiliary Industrial Institute of the Education Affairs Office of the Civil Administration Department. The Institute consisted of only three departments (Woodcraft, Metalwork and Electrical Engineering) ushered in an era of industrial education in Taiwan. In 1948 the school was renamed as Provincial Taipei Institute of Technology providing five-year associate degree programs. In 1997, the school was promoted to University status, and was renamed as National Taipei University of Technology (Taipei Tech). And now Taipei Tech currently offers 17 undergraduate programs, 26 master programs and 16 Ph.D. programs within 6 colleges. With the long-standing history and experience in education, Taipei Tech devotes to cultivating top technical professionals. Taipei Tech specializes in three fields: technology, design and management. In a recent teaching excellence evaluation by Taiwan’s Ministry of Education, Taipei Tech was ranked first among all the other technological universities. It is also Number One Paradigm Technological University for its research and academic excellence. Taipei Tech alumni have contributed considerably to the economic development of Taiwan, and have won wide praise from businesses of all industries. Taipei Tech graduates are the top favorite employees among Taiwan’s top 1000 enterprises, as declared by Cheers magazine. Taipei Tech is also renowned as top World Green University. In UI Green Metrics University Rankings, Taipei Tech is ranked as the 1st Green University in Taiwan and the 6th in world in the city center catergory. Taipei Tech campus is located at the apex of the Taipei Metro system. Not only can students enjoy a world-class education at Taipei Tech, but they also gain the opportunity to enjoy the rich traditional culture that Taipei offers. Attractions such as Taipei 101, the Palace Museum, and the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall are in close proximity to Taipei Tech |
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Green Eater Food Waste Composting MacHine by Ying-Yi Hsieh is Winner in Home Appliances Design Category, 2016 - 2017.· Press Members: Login or Register to request an exclusive interview with Ying-Yi Hsieh. · Click here to register inorder to view the profile and other works by Ying-Yi Hsieh. |
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