Modification of the Required Ventilation Poultry in Order to Reduce Fuel Consumption

One of the important factors in the poultry industry is the cost of fossil fuel and electricity consumption. These costs directly affect the price of all products such as poultry meat and eggs, as major products. The ventilation rate is one of the crucial factors in the consumption of fuel and energy. The need for adequate ventilation is determined by the age of poultries and more specifically by taking account of live weights. The amount of air which is determined for the ventilation is around 4-7 cubic meters per hour per kilogram of body weight. In this study, by management of ventilation system which is include opening a certain number of inlet for air, is tried to fuel consumption to be reduced. The results show that in a poultry house with 20000 number usage of this method reduces fuel consumption by 5 to 80 percent is due to different ambient temperatures range in winter. Also this method for poultry industries which use diesel fuel (natural gas) as fuel for heating will save 2500 liter in a year which is mean%11 reduction in fuel consumption. For warm seasons, as well as to reduce cooling costs using all the inlet potentials is recommended.