Design And Development Of Thermal Food Container

Sin, Chu Woon (2013) Design And Development Of Thermal Food Container. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka. (Submitted)

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Abstract

This project is aim to design and develop a thermal food container with reheat function. Even though the microwave oven can heat the food far quicker, but a simple and more convenient reheating food container is needed. Thermal food container is a box that use to keep the food in a safely place which can bring anywhere with reheat function. The heating element used in the reheat system is nichrome wire and insulated with wine cork. The nichrome wire produces heat by overcoming the resistance of the current flow. PIC16F876A microcontroller was used to manipulate the reheating system by using the temperature sensor and also control the reheating timing by using the timer. The detail design of the product was drawn by using CAD for a better picture of how the thermal food container looks like. Methodology which is referring to the scopes of study and problem statements was identified. The product development process involves planning, concept development, detail design, simulation, testing and refinement, and report writing. Simulation on the thermal food container was performed by utilizing ANSYS and a simple and easy to use thermal food container was developed. The result of this project showed that the temperature that can be achieved inside the food container in 10 minutes was around 90 for CFD simulation while for prototype testing the temperature shown is 58.5 . Overall, the project was conducted well, since the temperature distribution was obtained from the simulation as well as a prototype of thermal food container was fabricated.

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