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

Onward在安大略省滑铁卢的制造工厂将成为生产高性能全电动，节能和环保烧烤架的开发基地。作为Onward的主要品牌和产品线，Broil King的目标是提供一种解决方案，该解决方案允许客户连接到110V并产生足够的能量，以均匀加热高达500平方英寸的烹饪表面，具有烘烤能力（在各种天气和风条件下需要至少600华氏度）并减少颗粒物（pm）排放。目前市场上还没有这些功能，应该加以开发，以扩大Broil King在加拿大、美国和欧洲的客户群。由于插座110V的限制，市场上现有的电烹饪产品只能加热很小的烹饪表面（~280平方英寸）。与滑铁卢大学研究小组的合作将启动一个创新项目，其目标是提高功率输出，减少PM排放，并使用能源管理方法，如电池或可再生能源，用于这种全电动烧烤架。通过实验研究和数值模拟，将解决包括集成电加热设计、流动加热器相互作用和涉及食品的化学反应在内的技术复杂性。将开发先进的能源管理和功率控制策略，以及使用大学实验室最先进的分析设备进行在线温度和排放测量

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.**