Supplying the energy demand in the chicken meat processing poultry with biogas

The main use of electrical energy in the chicken meat processing unit is refrigeration. About 70% of the electricity is consumed in the compressors for the refrigeration system. Through this study, the energetic viability of using biogas from poultry litter in supplying the demand for the refrigerat...

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Autores:
Ferrarez, Adriano Henrique
Oliveira Filho, Delly
Lacerda Filho, Adílio Flauzino
Costa, José Márcio
Aparisi, Fabrício Segui
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2016
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/67631
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/67631
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/68660/
Palabra clave:
62 Ingeniería y operaciones afines / Engineering
Waste of poultry
slaughterhouse
ammonia absorption refrigeration
distributed generation.
Residuos de la avicultura
matadero
refrigeración por absorción de amoniaco
generación distribuida.
Rights
openAccess
License
Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
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Summary:The main use of electrical energy in the chicken meat processing unit is refrigeration. About 70% of the electricity is consumed in the compressors for the refrigeration system. Through this study, the energetic viability of using biogas from poultry litter in supplying the demand for the refrigeration process was found. The meat processing unit studied has the potential to process about a hundred and sixty thousand chickens a day. The potential biogas production from poultry litter is 60,754,298.91 m3.year-1. There will be a surplus of approximately 8,103MWh per month of electric energy generated from biogas. An economic analysis was performed considering a planning horizon of 20 years and the discount rate of 12% per year. The economic analysis was performed considering scenario 1: sale of all electricity generated by the thermoelectric facility, and scenario 2: sale of the surplus electricity generated after complying with the demands of the refrigeration process and all other electrical energy and thermal energy use. Economic indicators obtained for scenarios 1 and 2 were favorable for the project implementation.