The Glass Pool · KUECHE

Cooking equipment

Kitchen — refrigeration, dishwashing, cooking, exhaust. Part of the glass family — like our glass BESS, biogas plant and CHP.

Cooking equipment
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What is Cooking equipment?

Induction hobs, combi ovens and tilting pans draw a lot of power briefly and little afterwards. Consumption arises less from cooking than from standby heat: equipment switched on in the morning and off in the evening holds temperature all day.

For the demand peak what counts is not the sum of the nameplates but the diversity factor — how many appliances actually draw together. That is measurable and usually well below what the connected load suggests.

What is measured here

  • Electrical power per cooking block or feeder
  • Standby time versus actual cooking time
  • Diversity factor during peak service
  • Start-up peak when everything is powered on in the morning

How we connect it — read-only

  • Modbus sub-meters per cooking block feeder (Janitza, Gavazzi).
  • Clamp-on current transformers as a retrofit on individual supplies.
  • Combi ovens over the vendor interface where available — programme and status.

Schematic (native, live)

Kitchen — refrigeration, dishwashing, cooking, exhaust.

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What the AI does

  • Detects standby without use — appliances hot but nothing cooking.
  • Staggers the morning start-up instead of powering everything on at once.
  • Measures the real diversity factor instead of calculating with connected load.
  • Links the kitchen load to the exhaust — both are then driven by actual demand.

Method proven on a live European reference aquatic center; presented anonymously.

Standby heat

Estimate from metered / design values. Zero-grid-import windows are real (metered).

Standards & norms

What the rules require — Cooking equipment

Grounded in DIN 19643, VDI 2089, DGfdB and the German Buildings Energy Act. Same knowledge base as the European reference site; presented anonymously.

Why is the kitchen’s connected load not the demand peak?

Because the appliances never all draw full power at the same time. The real diversity factor is well below that — but it is site-specific and can only be evidenced by measurement.

Basis: plant engineering

What does standby heat cost?

That depends on appliance type, insulation and idle time. It becomes measurable through the power drawn in periods without cooking — which is exactly what the sub-meter at the feeder captures.

Basis: plant engineering

Can cooking equipment be shifted at all?

The cooking itself cannot — it follows service. What can shift is the morning start-up and the preparation, and that is precisely where the start-up peak sits.

Basis: plant engineering

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