Food processing equipment should reduce carbon emissions

On world Earth day of 2016，World wide a first, unique decarbonize universal agreement-Paris Climate deal was signed in UN headquarters New York. 175 countries shelved disputes between rich and poor, with together pledged to limit global warming to about another degree Celsius. Paris Climate Deal is formal to enter Substantial start-up phase.

The climate change is global, decarbonize involved in every where; food processing is the most broad areas of human existence, it was extend all over the world every corner; It is divided into two main areas ---- people's daily foods cooking and commerce food services, these two areas of carbon emissions‘ high or low can be decided by both operator skill level and the equipment efficiency ； The first situation should be though by training and more publicity of media to improve people understanding carbon emissions ; and the second must be heightening heat exchange performance of products and equipment to reduce carbon emissions. So, food services machines manufactures will impossible avoid as it to be one of the biggest carbon emissions field. The companies should also establish a clear target for reducing carbon emission, and shoulder the responsibility. Decarbonize not only to need improve the efficiency of food services equipment and reduce its emissions in using, but also the need to cut down carbon emissions in the manufacturing process; and both areas are mutually inseparable. This article will take some of the products in commercial food services equipment area (commercial Braising pans, Steam kettles and Mixers) as an example to proof that have many aspects to could be reduce the possibility of carbon emissions, and improve product technology. So as to achieve the desired goal of the United Nations Environment Programmer (UNEP) --2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

I. To explore more efficient energy from existing products

According to the market survey: existing these three products’ major structure and the heating system are mostly remains largely tied to decades-old technologies. As that was the product of research stage, the ideas were advance and really to fill the needs of the market; but a few decade had passed and world was changed; the way of people live and work are in constant progress forward. Energy and environmental have been becoming more and more attention. The impact of human living space by carbon emissions has become a new cognitive domain of people. During the technology of that era, the designer were not possible to jump over these concepts of these products; for decades, many advanced energy-saving rapid heating methods have been developed and widely used. However, as known as the one of world's leading food service commercial equipment's supplier that they made of commercial Braising pans, Steam kettles and Mixers also didn't apply these new energy-saving technologies; Even some of the heating system structure still have design errors ( active power self-consumption ) . To improve product performance and reduce carbon emissions, we should be able to start from the following points:

1）There are uneven heating structure (include Gas and Electric) in commercial Braising Pans, that reduced energy efficiency, and not be able to get the best BTU value; To improve that designing, we need to modify this main structure and systems, reducing the temperature's loss during the heating, as possible as utilizing every degree of heat effect, which not only reduces carbon emissions, but also can get higher production efficiency, and saving energy costs for users too.

2) Whether Braising Pans or Steam Kettles, these products have being used an inefficient earliest electric heating system; The temperature rise slowly and lower heat-exchange efficiency, and far behind the technological development pace of electric heating; long heating time is not only increased carbonize emissions, but also waste energy. To select new energy-efficient heating alternative technologies has become an Imperative task。

3) The steam transfer medium of commercial steam kettles has had a better alternative technologies, new technology not only simplifies the pressure container complicated production crafts, but also rising speed is faster than steam. It is revolutionary significance advancement for reducing carbon emissions.

4) The current Braising Pans and steam Kettles are no carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide emissions purification devices; Its opening emissions system will have a negative impact for the equipment operator's health; World Health Organization reports that about 7 million people premature death due to indoor and outdoor air pollution worldwide. Food processing areas should also be concerned about this issue. In known as global leader in professional foodservice equipment and system’s company also has not consideration this, it does not match with the title; I believe that with implementation of COP21 agreement in worldwide, new related industries emission standards will also generate in the coming years; Evaluating the advance or backward of enterprise and its products we also need combination to see the affect on the environment and resource utilization . A few weeks ago, during the 2016 climate summit of the Americas, Ontario, Quebec and Mexico have signed a three-party joint statement; Newest ， Canada Prime Minister revealed (Oct 3,2016) his plan to reduce greenhouse gas emission, new rule will impose Canadian corporate starting in 2018. If corporate still wait and see, they will lose the opportunity, their reputation will be threatened, the product will lose competitive advantage and may even eliminated from the market.

5) Existing electrical control system is not only costly, occupy bulky, its power consumption, and carbon emissions higher than the integrated electronic control system; to improving product technology and reduce carbon emissions, the key is reduction and elimination of high energy and high cost 's electrical control components.

6) Device's main structure and its functional and perfect appearance

are inextricably linked, it also can reflect the product technology releasing times and the company's production technology level; for every part of the design will decided the products superior or inferior of application features, and processing's easy or complicated , but also determines the greenhouse emissions more or less, mostly of the existing design of these equipment has been used for decades, upgrade job is long overdue.

II. Reducing carbon emissions in device manufacturers

The biggest carbon emissions of current process are from polishing, welding and spinning these three processes, as one of the world's leading food service equipment manufacturer has also still followed a processing way of the company start-up period, original design basically has not been doing significant improvements; however the last century's 70s design thinking can be clearly identified their traces in existing products. Not difficult to imagine, in the initial stage of the company, the production quantity was low, products have not been stereotyped and not an ability to invest too much equipment. Thus, they using metal cutting, spinning, welding, polishing and many other processing operations replaced casting, extrusion and punching etc. one-step processing methods. There are only in following situations that will choose step by step combining technology to replace one step production way: small manufacturers, product development stage, the temporary order of special product, and no long-term planning to produce such products; The biggest defect of this production method is wasting resources, higher energy consumption, ultra-normal carbon emissions, expensive production costs, lower efficiency ; but now, the company is a share listed company, the annual output has risen to thousands or even more, while the traditional processing technology has not been changed and still use these obsolete production methods , it is the key to hinder corporate growing. This also reflects the company during the process of merger and acquisition that did not bring the technological advancement, resulting in their continued follow the traditional processing technology. They did not find this extra the utilization of resources and energy that can bring additional profit value for the company. Any enterprise such as unimproved in decades, and not to following social

progress that it will be eliminated by history; the world's only constant is "change", the famous KODAK company is the best lesson. Existing braising pans, steam kettles and mixers exterior design are an unwieldy lack of beauty, they been not reflected modernization design elements. It should be an important consideration because that is Structural component's process flow leading products of company。To reduce the processing flow greenhouse emissions, design reform and improving production technology must be combined together , between of them are inextricably linked, Also including electric control system. Well-known, electric control system's revolution is the fastest in recent decades, many traditional single electric subcomponents assembled electric system have gradually being replaced by integrated electronic chip technology, multiple distributed electrical components not only bulky, high cost and high consumption of resources, and more carbon emissions; but also components’ working life are limited by mechanical fatigue cycles and the material's decay time, and assembly time will be longer. Cited above situation are only a few instance of this industry area since these problems are decades of stagnation accumulated; future challenges are coexisted both associated risks and opportunities.

III. Meeting challenges of the futureEnterprises and products have to establish a short-term and long-term decarbonize target. The manufacturing reform and product upgrade must be combined with considering the impact on the environment ( it include greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, water consumption, raw materials / waste). To catalyze the transformation of enterprise value chain and establish the sustainability objectives' data system of companies and product. But also, enterprises must strengthen the quality control and perfect management, and hoped that following specific aspects could be better improved.

1, Compiling more professional and more stringent production regulations. Which means that technology should be formulated by qualified professionals, rather than the operators to decide, otherwise it does not meet the ISO management standards

2, To develop special equipment, it can cut down the processing time, reduce human labor, improve productivity. As much as possible with digital automation instead of manual work. Toward the Industrial Revolution 4.0. Some of the batch and finalized special shape parts should not be completed with a universal machine.

3, Improving product yield and reducing waste; There should be accurate input-to-output ratios between materials and finished products, adequate and reasonable allocation and selection of materials, saving more resources. As much as possible choose new energy-saving materials.

4, Manufactures have to set a layout which is according to environmental classification requirements and production flow sequence, and limit pollution in a control range, separating and minifying the contaminated area.

5, To develop the new equipment that can use renewable energy.

6, To modify products‘ heating system and increase its BTU。7, More efficiently improve manufacturers working space, time and equipment utilization.

8, Enhancing the training of employees' working skills and responsibility, any wrong and irrational duplication workings include waste products all will be one of the more emissions causes, and also raise the production cost.

9, It is also the contributions for resources and environmental protection if we can increase the products reusable and easy to replace, but not recycle as a pile of scrap.

10, To increase new features and range of products, and improving automation in the field of commercial food service equipment. Development intelligent operation; let it enable high-speed to accurately complete complicated manual operation and close to a standard of industrial 4.0.

11, let some of the excellent commercial food service equipment concepts to extend the residential kitchen to open up a broader market.

12, It is necessary to upgrade test standards； the existing some of manufactures data standards and test methods were formulated in last century 90's.

13, As possible as using electric forklift truck to replace fossil fuel forklift truck in working shop.

Let us start a real 21st-century revolution in the commercial food service equipment area. Develop a comprehensive set of emission standards for them, led the global commercial foodservice industry manufacturers to strive to reduce emissions, promote this industry's progress. To achieve the objectives of COP21 (Paris-agreement), let decarbonize to truly implement in commercial foodservice area. The days of carbon independent from food services has gone forever.