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Write about Dayton Food Bank Cold Storage Facility and Feasibility Study

Include Construction of the building, Licensing, legal issues, Cooling equipment, Operation costs, Market-related issues for renting space.

Answer 1

First I need to discuss what is food bank?

Ans: A food bank is a nonprofit charitable organization that distributes food to those who have difficulty purchasing enough to avoid hunger.

Since 1980 food banking has spread around the world and there are 30 countries with active food bank groups under the umbrella of the global food banking network.

Countries are Australia, Israel, Turkey, Russia, India, Taiwan, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, SouthAfrica, Hongkong, Singapore, South Korea, and the UK.

So we need to know about the Dayton Food Bank Cold Storage ...

Dayton is a food bank over 40 years it has been served for the hunger-relief network in the world. Its is the on only one of its kind in the area-relieves hunger in the community through a network partner agencies. The food bank provides food pantries over 100 members, community kitchens, and shelters that serve as the charitable hunger-relief network in Montgomery, Greene, and Preble counties. Its mission is simple, making it happen is a great undertaking that grows larger every day. No other organization in the world does what the Dayton Food Bank does.

Dayton Food Bank Cold Storage Facility and Feasibility Study

Facilities :

Each year, billions of pounds of food go to waste, while one in four people are malnourished. One tool in the fight against global hunger is food banks. Food banking systems capture wholesome, surplus food, and deliver it to the people who need it most, engaging all sectors of society, government, business, and civil – in the process.

Food banks acquire donated food, much of which would otherwise be wasted, from farms, manufacturers, distributors, retail stores, consumers, and other sources, making it available to those in need through an established network of community agencies. So Cold storage facility is very very important for these banks. It protects all the foods for the needy people like vegetables, fruits, meat and seafood, dairy products). Blast freezers and chillers are ideal for protecting all the food. One of the facility its minimize the risk of food poisoning is lowered as storing it in a cool place may cause chemical changes like change in enzymic changes or mold that can be transferred from cooked to uncooked food or from uncooked foods to cooked foods. Its often happens that people it very difficult to cook on a regular basis they have less time to manage in their whole day, By storing perishable foods in FOOD BANKS cold storage enable people to unfreeze the required item and cook it easily and its offers a great advantage to store perishable items really long time.

Feasibility

Food banks change lives and change communities by reducing hunger and malnutrition, by creating jobs, by empowering individuals and enhancing their economic status, and by building the wealth of their communities. Deciding to undertake the establishment of a food banking system involves several phases:

1. Assessment Phase 2. Planning Phase 3. Capitalization Phase 4. Implementation Phase 5. Adjustment Phase

objectives of the food bank’s scope and scale of service:

• Will it serve the hungry directly or through other NGOs (or both)?
• Will it attempt to provide 100% of a beneficiary agency’s food needs or some
• smaller amount? Will it try to reach all of the hungry people in the country / community or will it
• target certain segments of the needy population? Will it provide only non-perishable, packaged foods or will it also provide
• refrigerated and frozen foods and fresh produce? Will it provide only food or will it also handle non-food grocery products
• (cleaning supplies, diapers, personal care items, food service items, etc.)? Will it handle only food and grocery products or will it also handle other items
• such as clothing, furniture, household goods, etc.? How will it define its target distribution activity and measure against those targets?

**Construction of the building, Licensing, legal issues, Cooling equipment, Operation costs, Market-related issues for renting space.

1.Construction of the building :

Compressor: Compressor is the heart of the cold storage plant and only power-consuming device or machine of the cold storage plant. The majority of power is consumed by the compressor. It raises the temperature and pressure of refrigerant (the working medium, Ammonia) vapor coming out from an evaporator. Due to high pressure, the refrigerant boiling point gets increased and thus it can be now easily condensed at condenser temperature.

Condenser: It is a heat exchanger device which exchanges the heat from vapor refrigerant and water being circulated. The condenser is not powered consuming device. It condenses (meaning 'phase change') the high-pressure and high-temperature refrigerant to the high-pressure and high-temperature liquid. One can say, a condenser is a heat sink where heat is rejected. The efficiency of the plant is dependent on the effectiveness of heat transfer at the condenser.

Receiver: It receives the high-pressure liquid condensate from the condenser and collects it.

Expansion Valve: It reduces the pressure and temperature of refrigerant from receiver pressure and temperature to evaporator pressure and temperature. The throttling process makes pressure and temperature reduction. Due to friction, the throttling process occurs and pressure along with temperature decreases. This is the location where cooling is produced.

Evaporator: The heat exchanger where actual cooling takes place. It evaporates (vaporize) the low-pressure, low-temperature liquid refrigerant (with low boiling point) by taking/utilizing heat from atmosphere/storage compartment to be cooled, thus heat content of fruits or vegetable decrease and it cool due to this cyclic process (Chilled air is produced due to convection current)

Blowers: It circulates chilled air in the refrigerated space to cool the fruits and vegetables by convection process.

An FBO needs to acquire FSSAI license/registration as section 92 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 and Food Safety & Standards Regulation, 2011 mandates this. FSSAI issues Food Safety license to ensure that the FBOs comply with safety, hygiene and sanitary conditions of the food regulations. The registration application process can be completed in five simple steps: The Form-B has to be downloaded and then submitted after filling complete details. A unique Reference Id is created for reference at later stages. An FBO is then required to submit the hard copy of the application to his State or Regional Office of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), within 15 days from the date of online submission of application. The documents which are to be attached along with the application are Acknowledgment copy, Online Application Form and fees in the form of Demand Draft or the online payment proof.

The Licensing Criteria:

The criteria for licensing/registration for a Cold Storage Unit should be based on the turnover rather than the storage capacity (MT).

If the annual turnover of the food business is up to Rs. 12 lakhs, then a Registration Certificate is required from the FSSAI.

If the annual turnover of a food business exceeds Rs. 12 lakhs and is up to Rs. 30 crores, then a State License is required.

If annual turnover is above Rs. 30 crores, then FSSAI Central License is needed.

Legal Issues: Employment Law, Transportation Law,Warehouse Law.

Cooling equipment

Evaporation- liquid refrigerant at low pressures makes contact with the heat source, the refrigerant then absorbs the heat and produces a vapor. An evaporator is used for the heat exchanging process.

Compression- compressor raises the pressure of the refrigerant vapor, the increase of temperature at which the vapors condense will be above the temperature at which heat sinks

Condensing- the gas now carries heat energy, is absorbed by the evaporator, then enters the condenser, the condenser is at a higher temperature than the heat sink, as the vapor becomes a liquid, it becomes super

Expansion- The liquid is then put under extreme pressure and releases cold air out.

Cost:

Cost of 192 sq ft area @ Rs 1000/sq ft‎: ‎1, 92,000.

Machinery cost‎: ‎4, 65,000.00.

Electricity supply and stabilizer cost‎: ‎1,00 000.

Other miscellaneous costs‎: ‎10,000.00.

Market-related issues for renting space

Political issues, Weather issues, Transportation issue etc.there is lots of issue might have happened.