Idea 2: Solar Powered Smart Kitchen Chimney
Scope of the Project
•In India, the biomass is used for generation of heat for cooking process.
• In rural area, the biomass is available in huge quantity.
• The burning of biomass, can release smoke and high concentration of particulate matter.
• Which dangerous for health of person working in kitchen and person who will come contact with the smoke.
• So, it is necessity to absorb this smoke from kitchen, before it gets add into the atmosphere.
Abstarct
A smart kitchen chimney uses the solar energy as a power source the run the DC fan of the chimney. When the smokes come in contact with the sensor of chimney, the signal will gets to Arduino microcontroller, the exhaust fan will get operate, which can absorb the smoke from kitchen and send it into carbon charcoal filter where the carbon and other hazardous gases will get absorbs and the smoke will exhausted into the atmosphere.
Introduction
The chimney is the passage through which smoke and combustion gas escape from workplace
to outer environment. The existing chimneys are operated based on AC source which is more costlier and some places the electricity is not available.
In order to overcome this difficulty our entire system works on DC source.
From solar panels we get sufficient DC supply to operate the entire system. Solar energy is a renewable energy which we can generate at low cost.
The normal exhaust fans in household as well as in all other workplaces have a manual speed control system. it is regulated using a rotary switch which
internally involves a potentiometer, the potentiometer adjusts current flow to the exhaust fan and hence,
the speed is adjusted this system creates a few problems in terms of user comfort. To avoid this automatic on/off control technique is implemented
in our proposed system.
The automatic on/off control process of exhaust fan is made by Arduino microcontroller and smoke sensor. The smoke sensor detect the smoke more
accurately and send required data to exhaust fan module and the fan get operate.