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Low energy, infrared oven for an improved automated cooking

Description du projet

Un four infrarouge innovant pour les cuisines commerciales

Les cuisines commerciales consomment une quantité considérable d’énergie, principalement en raison du manque d’efficacité des appareils. À titre d’exemple, les fours constituent l’un des appareils de cuisine les plus gourmands en énergie. Même les fours les plus récents et les plus perfectionnés ne sont pas totalement efficaces. Le projet Smart Cooking, financé par l’UE, propose un four infrarouge à faible énergie qui consomme 60 % moins d’énergie que les fours à convection, réduit de moitié le temps de cuisson et intègre des programmes de cuisson automatisés et une technologie d’autonettoyage. Ce four innovant est conçu pour réduire les frais des entreprises alimentaires et augmenter leur productivité.

Objectif

The challenging worldwide energy demand requires the restriction of energy consumption by means of systems and machines that are more efficient. The EU has set itself climate and energy targets to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions progressively up to 2050. Commercial kitchens, are intense energy users and represent the biggest energy consumers per square foot of all commercial buildings. Typically, 20% of a food service business’ annual energy costs are wasted through the use of energy inefficient equipment. Improving the efficiency of commercial kitchen equipment can result in savings of 10-30%, depending upon the technologies installed. Ovens represent one of the most energy demanding pieces of equipment. A minimum of 20.000kWh could be saved yearly, if ovens were replaced by high efficiency equipment in commercial kitchens. Main limitations from most advanced ovens on the market include: 1) energy is wasted as heat, and the majority is released into the kitchen warming up the kitchen (cooling of the kitchen is thus needed, thus further energy required), 2) notable food weight loss and too dry resulting cooked foods, 3) long cooking times, 4) non-automated cooking (automatic cooking programs greatly increase the kitchen staff’s productivity, provide constant results and no cooking training is required), 5) pyrolytic automatic cleaning requires too much energy.
To overcome all of these problems CB s.r.l has created Smart Cooking; a low energy infrared oven which uses 60% less energy than convection ovens (no energy is wasted as heat, no energy is needed to cool the kitchen), reduces cooking time by 15-50%, cuts food weight loss by 15%, and incorporates automated cooking programs and self-cleaning technology (50% less energy used than pyrolitic ovens). Smart Cooking will cut costs for food businesses and will highly increase their productivity. In 5 years from completion of the project, we expect to gain €9 million in cumulative profits and hire 27 new employe

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Régime de financement

SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1

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(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre) H2020-SMEInst-2016-2017

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Coordinateur

CB SRL
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 50 000,00
Adresse
VIA VIENNA 41
24040 BOTTANUCO BG
Italie
PME
Oui
Région
Nord-Ovest Lombardia Bergamo
Type d’activité
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
Liens
Coût total
€ 71 429,00