Thesis (M.A.)--Oregon State University, 2007. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 159-163). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Hus byggs idag allt tätare för att möta högre miljökrav, ställda av både konsumenter och politiker. När hus byggs täta minskar luftläckaget genom klimatskalet. Tack vare det sänks energiåtgången då nästan all luft styrs genom en värmeväxlare. Tätheten i de nya husen har lett till att utsugande köksfläktar inte fungerar som de ska, beroende på att de behöver mycket luft. I detta projekt utvecklades ett utsugande köksfläktsystem för passivhus, de allra tätaste husen på marknaden. Resultatet blev en utsugande köksfläkt som hela tiden tillförs luft utifrån huset. Tilluften sugs in i huset med hjälp av det undertryck som köksfläkten skapar, luften sprutas in i kåpan och sugs sedan ut ihop med matoset. För att hålla nere energiförbrukningen användes en svag köksfläkt. För att hjälpa fläkten att fånga upp matoset är fläktkåpan utformad för att utnyttja ejektorverkan och coandaeffekten. Under projektet utvecklades även en värmeväxlare som tar tillvara på värmen i frånluften. / Today houses are built more airtight to meet higher environmental standards, initiated by both consumers and politicians. When houses are built airtight it reduces air leakage through the building, which gives reduced energy consumption since almost all air is guided throw a heat exchanger. Since the new houses are very airtight it has caused extractor hoods to work improperly, because they need a lot of air. In this project a extractor hood system has been developed for passive houses, which are the most airtight houses on the market. The result was an extractor hood which is constantly getting air from outside the house. The air from outside is sucked into the house because of the vacuum created by the extractor hood, the air is injected into the hood and then sucked out together with the cooking odors. In order to minimize the energy consumption a weak extractor fan was used. To help the fan capture the cooking fumes, the hood is designed to use ejector- and coandaeffect. During the project a heat exchanger was also developed, which transfer the heat from the cooking odors to the air from the outside.

This study starts with the review of the literature in customer satisfaction, customer satisfaction methods and models. After selecting a proper customer satisfaction method and model, the study conducts a survey and a questionnaire among the customers and professionals in the modular kitchen sector. The aim of the study is to analyze the factors affecting customer satisfaction and finding out the ones related with the modular kitchen sector. After applying the survey, the relations between the inputs and outputs of the satisfaction are analyzed with the overall satisfaction itself. The strong and weak factors are determined and a proper CRM tool is build-up to realize a decision-support and forecast tool in the study, which can be seen as a beginning for the companies in the real sector in this business to build a much more detailed and ERP integrated software and to use them. The results of the survey are compared with the similar studies from the literature.

My research centers upon designing transformative learning environments and supporting technologies. Kitchen Science Investigators (KSI) is an out-of-school transformative learning environment we designed to help young people learn science through cooking. My dissertation considers the question, 'How can we design a learning environment in which children discover the utility of science in their lives and their own scientific capabilities?' I have explored this question in the context of designing and enacting KSI. We designed the environment (i.e., activities, facilitation, and technology support) so that in the midst of cooking, participants generate personal goals that they need science to achieve. Our design integrates software to promote scientific practices in a real world context. In my thesis research I analyze how learners are developing identity as scientific reasoners in this environment. I also make recommendations about the design of learning environments and technologies to help with scientific development. My dissertation study is a longitudinal study of individuals in our most recent implementation of KSI. My current analysis of KSI shows significant development of disposition and identity development among focal learners, as well as a set of causal factors. I found that as learners connected cooking and science, and as they participated in science socially with their friends, they began to increase their scientific participation in and outside of KSI. My findings suggest guidelines for software support, facilitation, and activities for getting learners engaged in scientific inquiry in ways that promote the development of scientific identities.

It is reported that cooking can generate many kinds of airborne pollutants,which pose serious threats to human health. Kitchen range-hood is themost effective and popular equipment to exhaust the airborne pollutants,including smoke and oil particle in people’s daily life. The lack of astandardized and overall approach to test and evaluate range-hood makesboth consumer and some manufacturers confused. For these reasons,Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory published a report, whichshowed the results of their elaborate experiment and some conclusion.However, they also pointed out that due to the limitation of the apparatus,some of the results are not reliable.Therefore, this project established a numerical model in Fluent toinvestigate the pollutant removal performance. Many attempts had beenmade before a validated numerical model was accomplished because aproper model needs the balance between iteration time and resultaccuracy. The validation part is presented in the literature. The captureefficiency curve of the numerical model and one of experiments show agood agreement at the low power input. Some conclusions are drawn onhow power inputs and height affect the capture efficiency, respectively.Dimensionless analysis is done to find a general characteristic curve forevaluating the removal performance of a particular range-hood. / Det rapporteras att matlagning kan generera många typer av luftburnaföroreningar, vilket utgör allvarliga hot mot människors hälsa.Köksfläkten är den mest effektiva och populära utrustningen för attventilera ut luftburna föroreningar, inklusive rök och oljepartiklar imänniskors dagliga liv. Bristen på ett standardiserat och övergripandetillvägagångssätt för att testa och utvärdera köksfläktar ställer bådekonsumenten och vissa tillverkare i okunskap. Av dessa skäl publiceradeLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory en rapport, som visade resultatenav deras utarbetade experiment och en slutsats. Men de påpekade ocksåatt på grund av begränsningen av utrustningen är några av resultaten intehelt tillförlitliga.Därför fastställde detta projekt en numerisk modell i Fluent för attundersöka avlägsnandet av föroreningar. Många försök hade gjorts innanen validerad numerisk modell uppnåddes, eftersom en riktig modellbehöver balansen mellan iterationstid och resultatnoggrannhet.Valideringsdelen presenteras i litteraturen. Effektkurvan för dennumeriska modellen och ett av experimenten visar en godöverensstämmelse vid låg effektinmatning. Några slutsatser dras av hurkraftingångar och höjd påverkar upptagningseffektiviteten.Dimensionslös analys görs för att hitta en generell karaktäristisk kurvaför att utvärdera avlägsnande av prestanda för ett viss köksfläkt.

Thèse (Ph. D.)--Université Laval, 2008. / Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 12 janvier 2009). Bibliogr.

Este trabalho busca percorrer o cotidiano de uma Cozinha Comunitária (CC) localizada em uma Unidade de Triagem e Compostagem de Resíduos (UTC) ― popularmente conhecida como “lixão” ― na periferia da cidade de Porto Alegre. Guiando-me pelo campo da antropologia da alimentação, me concentro nas experiências alimentares compartilhadas pelos trabalhadores de reciclagem que frequentam a cozinha, atentando para as práticas e os sentidos que cercam o ato alimentar e para as formas de perceber os programas sociais ali executados. Assim sendo, parto da Cozinha Comunitária como um locus privilegiado para a compreensão do estilo de vida dos atores, e igualmente como um ponto de partida para repensar criticamente o Estado desde suas margens. A estratégia metodológica adotada é focada na interação social através da etnografia, a partir da qual busco problematizar o cotidiano da cozinha. Nesse sentido, procuro evocar a questão sobre o que pode estar em jogo para os atores quando se tratam de escolhas alimentares, levando em conta como estas podem revelar estilos de vida particulares, estando intimamente ligadas às maneiras de viver e de interação com o Estado. / This paper aims to go through the every day life of a Community Kitchen (DC) located in a unit Screening and Waste Composting (UTC) ― popularly known as "dump" ― on the outskirts of the city of Porto Alegre. Guided by the field of food anthropology I focus on food experiences shared by recycling workers attending the kitchen, paying attention to the practices and meanings that surround the feeding act and ways to perceive the social programs executed there. Therefore, I go from the Community Kitchen as a privileged locus for understanding the life style of the actors, and also as a starting point to critically rethink the state from it margins. To the methodological strategy is focused on social interaction through ethnography through which attempts to analyze the kitchen everyday. In this sense I try to evoke the question of what may be at stake for the actors when it's food choices in terms of how these styles can reveal private lives is closely linked to the ways of living of interaction with the state.

Esta dissertação analisou a implementação das Cozinhas Comunitárias em Porto Alegre a partir do conceito de Micro-Implementação de Berman (2007). Tendo em vista que essa política é formulada pelo governo federal (MDS) e sua implementação é responsabilidade dos níveis locais (prefeitura), o conceito criado pelo autor considera as particularidades do contexto político-institucional local com seus diferentes atores e dinâmicas como um fator determinante no sucesso ou fracasso na implementação das políticas públicas. A pesquisa, um estudo de caso de caráter exploratório e descritivo, foi conduzida sob a perspectiva qualitativa. Os dados para o trabalho foram obtidos através de pesquisa documental bibliográfica e de campo, em que coordenadoras e nutricionistas da COSANS e gestoras de sete Cozinhas foram submetidas a entrevistas semiestruturadas. A análise de dados utilizou a técnica da análise de conteúdo. Os resultados referentes aos aspectos operacionais apontam que das 16 Cozinhas em funcionamento (são 24 no total), 10 cumprem com os requisitos do MDS no oferecimento de no mínimo 200 refeições ao dia, cinco vezes por semana. A dinâmica de implementação deste equipamento em Porto Alegre sofre influência de elementos do contexto político-institucional e principalmente dos implementadores locais, responsáveis pelas adaptações das normas e procedimentos da política conforme os contextos. Em que pesem as lacunas de implementação, essa política pública ainda carece de um Plano Municipal e de recursos próprios para o setor que auxilie na manutenção dos equipamentos para que eles atendam o maior número de pessoas em situação de vulnerabilidade com alimentos de qualidade e na frequência adequada. / This dissertation analyzed the implementation of the Community Kitchens in Porto Alegre from the concept of Micro-Implementation of Berman (2007). Considering that this policy is formulated by the federal government (MDS) and its implementation is the responsibility of local levels (city hall), the concept created by the author considers the particularities of the local political-institutional context with its different actors and dynamics as a determining factor in the success or failure of the implementation of public policies. The research, an exploratory and descriptive case study, was conducted under a qualitative perspective. The data for the work was obtained through bibliographical, documental and field research, in which coordinators and nutritionists of COSANS and managers of seven Kitchens were submitted to semi-structured interviews. Data analysis used the technique of content analysis. The operational results indicate that of the 16 kitchens in operation (24 in total), 10 comply with MDS requirements in offering at least 200 meals a day, five times a week. The dynamics of implementation of this equipment in Porto Alegre is influenced by elements of the political-institutional context and mainly of the local implementers, responsible for the adaptations of the norms and procedures of the policy according to the contexts. In spite of the implementation gaps, this public policy still lacks a Municipal Plan and own resources for the sector that assists in the maintenance of the equipment so that they serve the largest number of people in vulnerable situations with quality food and in the frequency proper.

Detta kandidatarbete kommer undersöka hur vi designar en smart applikation i köket för att bidra till ett minskat matslöseri. Vi går in i undersökningen med frågan “Hur kan en smart applikation i köket göra vardagen trevligare och lättare, samt bidra till ett minskat matslöseri?”. Vi forskar inom matslöseri, smarta hem, smarta kylskåp och QR-koder. Utifrån denna forskning designar vi upp en prototyp för ett smart kök i form av en applikation. Vi bildar en egen uppfattning på konceptet det smarta köket. Det kommer finnas en genomgång på hur vi gestaltar vår lösning till frågeställningen och vilka metoder som använts för att komma fram till slutresultatet. / This Bachelor Thesis will examine how to design a smart appliance in the kitchen to help reduce food waste. We go into the survey with the question "How can a smart application in the kitchen make the living day more enjoyable and easier, as well as contribute to a reduced food waste?". We research in food waste, smart homes, smart refrigerators and QR codes. Based on this research, we design a prototype for a smart kitchen in the form of a mobile application. We form our own perception of the concept of the smart kitchen. There will be a review of how we shape our solution to the question and the methods used to arrive at the final result.

Submitted by Morgana Silva (morgana_linhares@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-08-29T19:20:01Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1848850 bytes, checksum: ae6ee2087ca6cae49522bf1f78d8add9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-29T19:20:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1848850 bytes, checksum: ae6ee2087ca6cae49522bf1f78d8add9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-06-12 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Based on ethnographic experience of the encounter from natural and modern kitchens, a therapeutic healing house rises as a representation of a socio-ecological conflict that operates in the formation of different types of cookery expertise. Among 'modern chefs that naturalizes human taste', ‗barefoot female cooks' take us for a walk through the production fields, of commensality of natural foods in search of detailing the historical exclusion of female soul from the art of cookery (DORIA, 2013). Sensitized by a mind-and-body practice based on integrality, openness and attention, this barefoot women seek to grant legitimacy to female devir, in exercising alternative cure methods while facing a quarrelsome modern culinaric habitus responsible for reifying hodiern social gastro-anomie (FISCHLER, 1979). Different theoretical horizons, the dwell perspective (INGOLD, 2011) and acctancy (LATOUR, 1994), were gathered comparatively in order to compose a comprehensive analysis of a ‗eco-vegetarian‘ background, complemented by a parallel ethnographic immersion among producers of organic food in Brazil (ENCA) and Spain (WWOOF) in order to discuss emerging responsibilities in contemporary ecological devir, analysis the anti-ecology immanent in modern dietetic sciences. / Dedicada à investigação da emergência social do cozinheiro enquanto sujeito comedor, apresentamos uma etnografia sobre a estruturação da Cozinha Natural, e das ressignificação sócio-dietética decorrente de uma inversão da cosmo-ecologia gastronômica modernamente instituída. A casa de cura alternativa que nasce como representação de um conflito sociológico heteróclito, entre humanos e não-humanos, contextualiza a formação de uma expertise culinárica contemporânea - cozida no campo da construção da alteridade. O encontro fronteiriço entre as cozinhas natural e moderna ocorre em meio a um processo de legitimação social, de ‗cozinheiras de pés descalços‘ mediadas por uma experiência de desnaturalização do paladar e libertação da corpo feminino. A moderna exclusão do espírito feminino do recinto culinárico (DORIA, 2013) em favor dos chefs, figura como naturalização de nossa animalidade, na instituição de um habitus dietético carnista indesejado, reificador do atual estado de gastroanomia sociológico (FISCHLER, 1979). Uma análise compreensiva da prática dietética vegetariana e da intersubjetividade dos modos de vida consecutivos, é complementada por um empreendimento etnográfico entre produtores de alimentos orgânicos na Espanha.