IMPROVING ELECTRIC POWER AVAILABILITY IN POULTRY FARMS USING INTELLIGENT STANDALONE HYBRID RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEM

The decrease in the production capacity of some poultries and sudden death of the birds in these poultries are as a result of not having ideal power that will make some of these poultries to function efficiently. This was overcome by introducing improved electric power availability in the poultry farmat Amoli community in Enugu State for an increased output using intelligent standalone hybrid renewable energy system. This was done by characterizing the availability of electric power in poultry farm, establishing the causes of power unavailability in poultry farm in AMOLI community in Enugu State that triggered the low production capacity, determining available sources of renewable energy that will boost electric power availability in poultry farm at AMOLI community and subsequently improved its production capacity. The study designed a   standalone rule-base that improves the availability of the electric power in poultry farm thereby enhancing its production capacity. A Simulink model used for improving the availability of electric power in poultry farm was designed. The percentage improvement of the availability of electric power and its production capacity in poultry farm at AMOLI community in Enugu State were validated and justified. The result obtained with the conventional electric power availability in poultry farm was 70KW that caused low production in the poultry. This was because conventional electric power could not meet the threshold of 72 through 75KW. On the other hand, when standalone was integrated in the system it becomes73.78KW thereby improving the production capacity of the poultry and the number of chickens hatched in poultry farm at the community was 1000 with the conventional while when standalone was integrated in the system hatched chickens were 1054. With these results the percentage improvement in the production capacity of the poultry was5.4%.