DEVELOPMENT HOUSE INCUBATOR UNIT OPERATED WITH RENEWABLE ENERGY

A new system of solar house incubator design is recommended to be used for hatch eggs using solar energy as step for maximizing renewable source of energy instead of traditional power. The indoor experiments were conducted under two methods to keep the incubator temperature at the optimum level. The first, using solar collector and heater works by solar cell. The second is the heater works by solar cell only. The DC motor used to move mat and automatically change eggs position. This system controlled by using the electronic circuits and mechanical thermocouple to supply a requirement eggs temperature (39 °C). The entire element will be controlled using programmable integrated circuit. The programmable integrated circuit is a type of microcontroller that can process a data from sensor and will execute the control element to change the condition in the incubator. The experimental periods from 7^th to 28^th of February (first period) and from 1^st to 20^th of June (second period) 2017 were recorded and evaluation at Tractor Test Station. The total power with solar collector decreases by 26.8 % and 37.5% compared to the total power when using the tradional method at the first and second period respectively.