Incorporation of phase change material (PCM) in poultry Hatchery for thermal management & energy conversion schemes of slaughterhouse waste in Broiler farms for energy conservation - a case study

Energy has become an important and one of the basic infrastructures for economic development of a county. The per capita energy consumption of a country is an index of prosperity. India houses 17% of world population and consumes only 3.3% of total world energy. Currently, energy experts are always analyzing economically feasible and technically viable methods towards the generation and conservation of energy in a friendly nature to the environment. Poultry Industry is the one which consumes more energy and this contributes major share in the broiler production cost and produces huge amount of meat waste which is not utilized much. Hence this sector may possibly be considered for a study towards the energy conservation potential as well as handling the waste to energy conversion process for supporting the environment from pollution. This industry requires two major energies such as thermal and electricity. The poultry based livestock production is increasing day by day which leads to increase in production of poultry meat wastes such as chicken litter and guts. This may results in air, soil and water pollution. One of the promising novel methods is meeting the energy demand from renewable energy sources and by utilizing the pollutant based waste generated from the slaughterhouses. This paper propose the suitability of phase change material (PCM) for solar energy storage which ultimately provides the thermal management process in the poultry egg hatchery and also deals with various possibilities to handle the chicken guts in a most effective way for meeting out the grow-out farms energy demand.