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Energy and Environmental Engineering(CEASE PUBLICATION) Vol. 5(2), pp. 29 - 36
DOI: 10.13189/eee.2017.050201
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Energy Consumption and Energy Saving Measures in Poultry

Catherine Baxevanou ^1,*, Dimitrios Fidaros ¹, Thomas Bartzanas ¹, Constantinos Kittas ^2
1 Center for Research and Technology – Hellas, Institute for Research and Technology, Greece
² Department of Agriculture Crop Production and Rural Environment, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, Greece

ABSTRACT

Livestock buildings are energy consumers and aggravate the environment directly through their emissions and indirectly through the natural sources consumption. The contribution of energy consumption in the total production cost increases as the mechanization level and the conventional energy cost arises. In the present work the total energy consumption in poultries and its distribution according to the type of energy and the type of application is approached in two ways: a) The operational rating through the process of energy audit and, b) The asset rating where the thermal needs of the chambers are calculated using a source analytical explicit model in hourly time step. In terms of final energy consumption the energy per unit area ranges between 30 and 130 kWh/m² and in terms of primary energy between 70 and 180 kWh/m², depended on the chamber insulation, location and automation level. The insulation can contribute mostly in mountainous area and the automation level in lowland units. An insulation thickness of 4 to 5cm is recommended for lowland farms and 6cm for mountainous farms. Further insulation cannot offer benefit since ventilation heat losses represent significant percentage of the total heat losses and can be reduced with automatic ventilation control.

KEYWORDS
Energy Consumption, Poultry, Energy Saving, Insulation, Energy Audit

Cite This Paper in IEEE or APA Citation Styles
(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Catherine Baxevanou , Dimitrios Fidaros , Thomas Bartzanas , Constantinos Kittas , "Energy Consumption and Energy Saving Measures in Poultry," Energy and Environmental Engineering(CEASE PUBLICATION), Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 29 - 36, 2017. DOI: 10.13189/eee.2017.050201.

(b). APA Format:
Catherine Baxevanou , Dimitrios Fidaros , Thomas Bartzanas , Constantinos Kittas (2017). Energy Consumption and Energy Saving Measures in Poultry. Energy and Environmental Engineering(CEASE PUBLICATION), 5(2), 29 - 36. DOI: 10.13189/eee.2017.050201.