Thermodynamic Analysis and Environmental Benefits of Electricity Generated Heat Power to Replace Combustion for Cooking Purpose

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Onward's manufacturing facility in Waterloo, Ontario, will be the development site for production of a high performance fully electric, energy-efficient, and environment friendly barbecue grills. Broil King, as the main brand and product line of Onward, is targeting a solution that allows the customer to connect to 110V and generate enough energy to heat, uniformly, a cooking surface up to 500 square inches with the searing ability (requiring minimum 600F in a variety of weather and wind conditions) and reduced particulate matters (PMs) emission. These features are not available on the market today and should be developed, to expand Broil King's customer base in Canada, USA and Europe. Existing electric cooking products on the market can only heat a very small cooking surface (~280 square inches), due to the limitation of 110V from the receptacle. The engagement with the research group at the University of Waterloo will initiate an innovative project which targets improved power output, reduced PM emissions, and use of energy management approaches such as battery or renewable energy for such fully electric barbecue grills. The technical complexities involving integrated electric heating design, flow-heater interactions, and chemical reactions involving food will be addressed, through experimental investigations and numerical modeling. Advanced energy management and power control strategies will be developed, together with online temperature and emission measurements using the state-of-art analytic equipment in the university laboratory.**