Análise da viabilidade técnica e econômica do uso de geradores a diesel no horário da ponta em um incubatório de matrizes para frango de corte: um estudo de caso

Abstract

Electricity is an essential input for the industrial sector, mainly because the impacts in which the lack or increase of this cost in this sector determines the paths to be followed by the national economy. Despite several favorable geographical factors, Brazil is among the countries with the most expensive electricity in the world and various factors such as taxes, subsidies and tariffs contribute to this situation. In the face of this, the industrial sector, especially the large companies began to look for alternatives that would reduce the cost of electric energy bills and among these is the use of diesel generators that are no longer used only to cover faults and oscillations in the electricity grid, but also to be used at peak times. Thus, this case study aims to make an analysis of the technical and economic feasibility of the use of diesel generators at peak hours in a hatchery for broiler chickens located in the southwest of Paraná. For this, firstly, procedures were performed to review the literature on the subject, as well as the characterization of the organization under study for the description, collection and analysis of data, including mainly electric bills, comparing the period without the use of generators and then with the use of the same at the time of the tip based on consumption in the inside and outside the peak hours, contracted demand and demand outside the time of the tip. Thus, it was possible to demonstrate the cost of KW at the tip for the hatchery, the cost of preventive maintenance in the generators and the most relevant, the expected savings with the use of them. However, it has been found that the use of diesel generators at peak hours in the broiler hatchery is feasible both technically and economically.