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fruit pulp ideas

I wanted to think of different ideas i could use the fruit pulp to make it into a form of the 3D printer, there is two paths i can go down, either I could have it attached to the end of the juicer so it has another action after it as extracted all of the juice from it or I could have it as a separate device that is used once you have removed the pulp away from the juicer.
There are many types of commercial juicers but the one that I am familiar with and most common in the nutrifaster n450 commercial juicer.

it works by inserting the fruit or vegetable in a whole found on the top and you push it down with the food pusher. the fruit is then cut up with the patented 16 blades and the juice is then sifted though the basket and then exits though the juice pan. the pulp is then forced the pulp tube due to centripetal force, I could then have something attached to the end of the pulp tube to 'print' it into a product. 

• My first idea I though of with having the 'printer' at the end of the pulp tube was to have it in away so you didn't have to touch the pulp, I found in the work force that some of the staff members didn't want to touch the pulp they found it rather repulsive to touch and even though it was 100% fruit they wouldn't touch it without wearing gloves. I could design a way so you could  prevent the pulp from being touched or just make it more visually appealing as it dosn't look good when disposed of. 
• I then thought about different was to dispose of it. when it goes though the pulp tube it just lands in a rubbish bin and then when the bin is full it is then disposed of. I was thinking that you could have a divide that squashes the pulp in to blocks so it is easy to stack or arrange. the pulp is soft and very moldable as it holds some moisture. 
• I then thought about different applications to use the pulp, I was inspired by the pulp/resin cup concept and thought that I could extend on that idea, I really liked the use of the cup, work well with the idea that you are using the waste from the juice and pulling it back into the experience,  I feel that people they drink fresh juice are a particular type of people they care about their health and the environment and using the pulp to create a drinking vessel is in a way environmentally friendly you are reusing the remands of the fruit and using it as an aid for drinking the drink. i was thinking of seeing if you could make it even more environmentally friendly and decomposable in the way of making the cup out of ice or even sugar therefore it would be 100% natural foods. The ice would not only hold the drink but would keep it cold, I know that you could use make a cut just out of ice and it could do the same thing but I would think that mixing it with pulp it might slow down the melting process or the dripping process. I would also have to design so form of cover for your hand to make it more pleasurable to hold. The problem with this idea is that you are restricted to the the time to drink it as the cup would met away over time, also as the ice melts they pulp may lack into the drink. you would also have to get the pulp and ice consistence right to have maximum support and melting time. 

• the next idea was to see if it could find a new way to compost with the pulp, I could see if it could find a way to speed up the composting rate. compost works better under pressure so I could design a way to press down the pulp while it is still in the bins so that it is already got the pressure acting on it before it is composted, the problem with this idea is that pushing it down means that there is more room for more pulp to enter which would result in making the bins heavier to move. 
• I also thought of that you could make the pulp into an art piece, when the fruit is mixed up in the juicer every piece is roughly cut up into the same size no mater what type of fruit it is. but as all fruit and vegetables are different colours you you use the pulp to make a decomposing art from making different images out of different fruit and vegetables. this would be an interning and innovative way to decompose the pulp as it you could make a device that could 'paint' with pulp. 

• As pulp is not seen as a normal thing to 'print' with i decided to think out side of the box of how you could apply pulp. One unique idea I had was what there is a strange enjoyable quality with the texture of the pulp so I thought that as it is 100% fruit/vegetables and decomposable so I thought you could make it interactive and have it as kind of a game where a devise you mold the pulp into balls and throw it, this could be an interesting way to disperse pulp across a field that you wanted to decompose the pulp, it would evenly disperse the pulp and and make a interesting way in doing it. 
• The last idea I was thinking about was I really liked the idea of the 'pottery printer' how it was made with no digital input it is make purely by placing the pegs at different heights to create different forms. i felt that I could use this concept and incorporate it with the pulp. I could your this idea in making a cup to drink the juice out of but i couldn't guarantee that the pulp would bound together to make it waterproof. I could use this concept to make and interesting way to dry out the pulp. 

3D printed fruit pulp

I use to work in a juice bar and we use to make Juice out of oranges, apples, carrot ect. it was made by placing the fruit and vegetables into an industrial juicer and the fruit would turn into juice and exit though a funnel, then the left over fibers of the fruit would make a pulp and the pulp would be forced though another hole and fall into a bin below the bench. The pulp would then be unwanted and thrown away and either composted or used as worm farms or feed to pigs.

the shoot which the pulp exits

shoot where juice exits 

I want to think of a way to incorporate the use of the pulp into a 3d printed form so it is no longer discarded as waste., I was thinking either having the printing product at the end of the shoot and have it as the next stage in the proses where it would change it into a product or to use it when you take the pulp away and make it outside the shop zone. In busy Juice bars a lot of pulp is dictated in busy days around about 3-4 bags of pulp is thrown away, So I would have to design something that works with that demand of pulp. 

I felt the next step to do was to research what was already out there with using fruit pulp, most places recommended recommended into weird ways to make it into food such as muffins and mixing in in food or dehydrating it. but I didn't really want to do that, I didn't really like the idea of mixing it back into food, even though it is 100% natural food, it won't seem well designed. I then looked to see if any one had 3D printed with pulp and stumbled upon Eco-cup PriO 

"PriO is a waste-free juicer, which automatically pour freshly extracted juice into the mono-use eco-сups, which it produces himself from the fruit or vegetable pulp with the addition of the resin by using technology of 3d-printing. It makes such package 100% bio degradable and moreover allows to everybody became a designer of their own style of the container." 

This design is so far only a concept and still has room for some to develop on to it. I like the way that the have found a way to think of a way to print with pulp but I don't like the design of it I don't think that it would work as well as it is set out to, but it a good leading point to see what others have though of 3D printing with pulp