Design, set-up control unit system to evaluate the performance of solar energy system for warming poultry house

Abstract EN

This study aims to use solar energy to warm poultry houses instead of traditional energies which have shortage and high cost of using.

The prototype was designed and Fabricated at workshop of agriculture engineering research institute (AEnRI) - ARC and the experiments were conducted at Solar Energy Laboratory - Agricultural Engineering Department Faculty of Agriculture - Ain Shams University (Latitude 30° 02′ N, Longitude 31° 21′ E).

Experiment was carried out during winter 2018 and 2019.

The prototype was designed and fabricated from main frame was made from wood 80 cm × 80 cm × 70 cm, Trombe wall was fabricated from two different materials (bricks and concrete), bricks wall with dimension 40 cm x 70 cm x10 cm, the concrete trombe wall as following: the dimensions were 80 cm x 70 cm x10cm and changed the material to be concrete.

Double of glass was mounted front of bricks or concrete wall, ventilation control system: it consists of (digital temperature controller, solenoid, moving arm, fan suction) and control unit (data logger).

The results showed that the Trombe wall designed from concrete better than one of bricks.

The prototype with trombe concrete wall was keeping the temperature at 30°C for 13 hour and 55 minutes of day.

This system was saving 56.46% energy that consume from the traditional energy.

Also, the Ten hours which the temperature drops below 30 ° C inside the poultry house, it is Compensating by lamp 100-watt that has been programmed to light when the temperature is below 30 ° C.

The average weight of broiler under experimental was comparing with the standard weight of the breed.

The results were higher than the standard.

The death rate was 0% .

The percentage of carbon dioxide and ammonia in poultry house air was not exceeding the standard ratio.

And the relative humidity was (50: 94(% .