Eco Double Deck Ultrasonic Inflight Washer
Conventionally, meals caterers especially in the airline industry uses a few dedicated types of dishwashers namely, Glass washer, Casserole washer and a multi-tracks washer in order to handle the washing requirement of a commercial plane. In other words, any expansion of the washing capacity, caterer need to expand the ware washes area by doubled the original floor area as they need to purchase all three sets of washers.
Airports authorities around the world are struggling with land space planning and usage especially with the building of bigger aeroplanes, which requires larger Terminals not to mention the hangers, Catering centres, Cargo terminal, etc which need to be within vicinity in order to operate an efficient airport.
In 2007, with the support and funding of NEA and PUB, K-One designed and developed the first all-in-one Eco-multipurpose double deck space saver ultrasonic dishwasher to handle all the soiled meals tableware using one washer at 30% of the original floor space. The better efficient machine layout also reduced about 10% of manpower required to operate three different washers. We also successfully introduced the first built-in ultrasonic soak-wash system to handle the exotic Asian cuisine spices that can stain the service wares which normally do not occur with western meals. As such, conventional washers built by the Europeans usually require pre-soaking of the heavily soiled service wares using very strong chemical for few hours before washing through the dishwasher. The successful implementation of this Eco-washer in our airport managed to save more than 50% of water, energy and chemical usage. This Eco invention was featured in Channel News Asia “Saving GAIA” program in 2010 for it Eco-friendly invention. Your may view the video here.
For this new innovation we managed to secure the patent rights of this invention. Below is a comparison table showing the improvements with our new invention.
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