Energy characterisation and savings opportunities in an aquaculture company (#831)
Read ArticleDate of Conference
July 17-19, 2024
Published In
"Sustainable Engineering for a Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Future at the Service of Education, Research, and Industry for a Society 5.0."
Location of Conference
Costa Rica
Authors
Gonzalez Clark, Surisleydi
Jimenez Borges, Reinier
Monteagudo Yanes, Jose Pedro
Castillo Alvarez, Yoisdel
Abstract
Aquaculture is one of the activities with sustained growth over time that represents a source of income and food for many developing countries. However, these systems are energy-intensive and environmentally unsustainable. For this reason, the theoretical-experimental research carried out an energy characterisation of a company in the aquaculture sector in Cuba. To this end, a description of the energy-productive system was carried out to identify the areas and equipment with high energy consumption, with pumps, blowers and lighting (76.14 %) being the most significant. Energy indicators were established for the company under study. In the research, savings opportunities are proposed, through the design of a solar photovoltaic system using PVSyst software modelling, and it is determined that 68 % of the energy demand could be supplied by the solar photovoltaic system.