On the development of an intelligent blender for household and commercial food processing

Mujibur Rahman, Kazi and Salami, Momoh Jimoh Eyiomika and Martono, Wahyudi and Albagul, Abdulgani and Zainudin, Fadzilah and Khan, Md. Raisuddin (2006) On the development of an intelligent blender for household and commercial food processing. In: International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering, ICCCE’06, 9 - 11st May 2006, Prince Hotel and Residence, Kuala Lumpur.

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Abstract

Blending machines are one of the most essential items for food processing in homes and restaurants. Most of the available blenders nowadays are conventional and use manual control requiring full time supervision and also need user expertise for efficient operation. In these machines, AC series motors are mostly used because blending needs high speed operation. The starting current is excessively high over a prolonged period causing voltage dip and injecting low order harmonics in the power line, thereby degrading the power quality of neighboring users. In this research work, an intelligent external controller is proposed that can control the starting current as well as operating strategy. To make the controller more economic, a new control strategy is adopted where the user chooses the food staff, amount and the type of operation. An intelligent program is embedded in the controller that decides the speed and time of operation. The controller is designed with low cost AT89C52 microcontroller along with PWM power interface for driving the ac series motor.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Speech/Talk)
Additional Information:	2470/7874
Subjects:	T Technology > T Technology (General)
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Engineering > Department of Mechatronics Engineering
Depositing User:	Prof Momoh-Jimoh Salami
Date Deposited:	09 May 2013 15:38
Last Modified:	22 Jun 2017 11:48
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/7874

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