FROZONIZER

Location

United States
Team Name: 
Robo Scholars
Team Number: 
11987
Team Description: 
We are a team of 8 members from State College, Pennsylvania. This is our first year in FLL and we are really enjoying as well as learning and working hard together. We take pride in representing our school, community and our lovely state-Pennsylvania. We have a very diverse group with members from 6 different ethnicities and can speak 7 different languages. This diversity has always helped us to look at problems/challenges from different angles. Having different perspective allows us to come up with innovative & creative ideas. We are excited to win 1st Place Strategy and Innovation Award at Philadelphia Championship. Our team is going to WHITE HOUSE in April to present our great innovation- FROZONIZER there. We hope to get it patented through Global Innovation Award and offer it to the world to reduce number of food-borne illnesses and deaths. Our team motto is - One Team One Dream!
Team Location: 
State College  Pennsylvania  16801
United States
Category: 
Storage
Brief Submission Description: 
Our research has shown that fresh produce contamination is one of the main culprits of foodborne outbreaks causing more than 5 million illnesses and 1300 deaths yearly in US only. The reason is the harmful bacteria that may be in the soil or water where produce grows, coming in contact with plants and contaminating them. Our team designed FROZONIZER- a device integrated into vegetable crisper of refrigerators that kills those pathogens using OZONE. A high voltage transformer is used to generate ozone. The user only needs to place produce inside the crisper, set the timer and that's it. Frozonizer will generate ozone inside the crisper that kills bacteria and after that all excessive ozone transforms to oxygen form leaving no residue. We've done series of experiments at Penn State University to prove the effectiveness. It's easy to use, cheap to produce, energy efficient and safe-not exceeding FDA standards of 0.005ppm in air.
Team Website
http://yscp.org/robotics