Saving energy at our farm not only yields environmental benefits, but also earns us money, every day. It was a matter of course for us to participate in a trial with the Intelligent Fan Drive, because energy savings of 60% were expected.
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When using the newest state-of-the-art equipment, we stay on top of the developments and, in addition, we are able to save money, says Johann. The margins in the pork market are currently extremely low, so we are constantly looking at ways to increase these.
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Brandon Bell owns a 2499 head Feeder to finisher farm in Keota, Iowa, The United States. He produces pigs for Brenneman Pork. He has a natural ventilated house with Multifan 2x 54" VPlus, 2x FC36, 8x FC24 pit fans and 16x 24" stir fans.
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Frequency controllers to adapt the speed of the fans are applied as standard nowadays. However, local tests with the Intelligent Fan Drive already convinced me that this solution increases the energy savings significantly compared to the commonly used frequency controllers.
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Farmer Dries Lahousse from Elverdinge is active in arable farming and breeds poultry, but also owns a dairy barn housing 170 cows. Amongst those are also several older animals that have already produced more than 100,000 liters of milk. In order to maintain production throughout the year for all cows, including the oldest ones, he recently invested in basket fans, for extra cooling on top of the natural ventilation.
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The Straight wall fans we have used were developed for higher static pressures and higher birds’ densities no matter the circumstances. With this fan we can reach massive results with 30% more airflow and a reduction of 35% energy consumption in average.
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A clear statement of Thomas Rainey of TR Ventilation, Multifan distributor in Ireland: “Multifan ECplus stands for trustworthiness”. His company is well known all throughout Ireland for it’s specialists expertise in Pig house ventilation. “Because of our long-term knowledge, we have discovered that Multifan is the top”, so says Rainey. TR Ventilation sells and installs for more than 28 years climate systems in Pig houses and is recognized by the Pig market as ventilation expert.
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Mifa, in Venlo, is a specialist in aluminium extrusion profiles. Mifa produces fully finished precision products with dimensional tolerances from ± 0.02 mm. This accuracy in aluminium profiles offers unprecedented possibilities. Due to precision extrusion, designers have enormous freedom of form, without the limitations of the customary standards. This allows the optimum product to be realised.
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Of course, much attention has been paid to creating an optimum barn climate. An optimal pig barn climate can save much misery and money, in other words. After all, it significantly affects the resistance of the animals and infection levels.
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The result of the combination is improved mixing of the greenhouse air so that horizontal and vertical temperature differences are reduced. Van den Brand: “Before the test, I did not expect that it would work out so well. But not only did the measurements from Wageningen University & Research show a better temperature distribution, the crop also looks more even."
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