A low-cost, lightweight milk chilling can that small-scale dairy farmers can use to keep milk cool during transport without needing electricity.
Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying · Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying · Hardware
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Insulated Can Body
An insulated double-wall structure built with materials like food-grade HDPE, aluminum alloys, or composites with polyurethane foam.
Passive Cooling System
A cooling mechanism using reusable ice packs, phase change materials, or passive cooling technologies that require no electricity.
Temperature Control
A system capable of maintaining milk temperatures between 4 degrees Celsius and 8 degrees Celsius for 6 to 12 hours.
Usability Features
Ergonomic handles, a leak-proof lid, and an optional temperature monitoring indicator for easy handling.
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The jury will evaluate whether the prototype maintains milk temperatures between 4 degrees Celsius and 8 degrees Celsius for 6 to 12 hours without electricity, uses food-grade materials, and holds 30 to 40 litres while remaining low cost.
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The exact target cost in rupees?
The brief never answers this, so a panel will. Whatever you decide, say it the same way twice.
The exact weight limit for the empty can?
The brief never answers this, so a panel will. Whatever you decide, say it the same way twice.
Has any part of this been shown at a previous event, hackathon or college project?
The guidelines are explicit: your solution must not have appeared in any previous event or programme, of any sort. A recycled project is what a team under time pressure reaches for.
The brief asks for insulated can body. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26110 itself — An insulated double-wall structure built with materials like food-grade HDPE, aluminum alloys, or composites with polyurethane foam. The brief asks for it by name.
Each one is quoted from a gap in the brief, not a guess about your team.
Needs physical hardware
Listed as a hardware problem statement, so a working demo needs physical components you have to source yourself.
What the organisers attached, and what the brief assumes you can get.
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Who has this problem, what already exists, and what you would have to find out.
The brief asks for passive cooling system. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26110 itself — A cooling mechanism using reusable ice packs, phase change materials, or passive cooling technologies that require no electricity. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for temperature control. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26110 itself — A system capable of maintaining milk temperatures between 4 degrees Celsius and 8 degrees Celsius for 6 to 12 hours. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for usability features. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26110 itself — Ergonomic handles, a leak-proof lid, and an optional temperature monitoring indicator for easy handling. The brief asks for it by name.
Why not use what already exists? Name the closest thing to this that is already running.
A team that has not named the alternative themselves is answering this for the first time in the room.
Which single thing will you demonstrate end to end, start to finish, with nothing skipped?
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Show me this working: the jury will evaluate whether the prototype maintains milk temperatures between 4 degrees Celsius and 8 degrees Celsius for 6 to 12 hours without electricity, uses food-grade materials, and holds 30 to 40 litres while remaining low cost.
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