Growing demand for poultry meat production motivates producers to lower their energy bills to offer competitive prices in the market. In addition, grant programs such as ÉcoPerformance by Transition Énergétique Québec encourage energy efficiency programs for this type of commercial building. Several strategies and technologies can be implemented in poultry houses to reduce the consumption of fossil fuel for heating: air exchangers, solar wall, economically optimal insulation level. The main objective of the research project discussed in this memoir is to model an agricultural building for poultry farming to predict the effectiveness of these three possibilities on energy and economic performance. The simulation was carried out for a chicken coop of one floor, 18.29 m wide, 76.20 m long and 2.55 m high. The chicken coop contains 20,000 chickens and the breeding period was 38 days. A combination of air exchangers and a solar wall offers the best annual energy savings with 94.7 MWh for a total of $5,791 and a NPV of $75,540 on the building studied. The installation of the exchangers alone would save 84.9 MWh annually with an NPV of $70,230. On the other hand, the installation of a 109 m2 solar collector alone would save 32.7 MWh annually with an NPV of $39,250. The simulation also determined that the best insulation solution would be to increase the insulation in the walls from RSI 3.5 to RSI 5.84. This would result in annual monetary savings of $332 with a 12-year payback period and a NPV of $3,432.
| Date | 12 Aug 2020 |
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| Original language | French |
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| Awarding Institution | - École de technologie supérieure
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| Supervisor | Daniel Rousse (Supervisor) |
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Perreault, L. (Author),
Rousse (Supervisor),
12 Aug 2020Student thesis: Master's thesis › Master in Engineering: Engineering