ANALYSIS OF ENERGY USE AND POSSIBILITY OF IMPROVING ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN GOAT FARMDAIRY "BEOCAPRA", SERBIA

Abstract

Nowadays people face challenges of rising energy consumption, energy costs, environmental impacts, consequence of global warming etc. All trends are directed to reduce those negative effects. In terms of energy consumption, the main goal of any production is to reduce energy consumption per product unit. At the goat farm and dairy Beocapra, located in Kukojevci in Serbia, energy was used for technological processes that include heating and cooling different types of working mediums as well as for heating and cooling spaces of the dairy. In this article the structure of used energy, energy quantities, temperature regimes and quantities of mediums and power consumption of the biggest systems were presented. The measures for improving energy efficiency and possibilities of using renewable energy sources for covering a part of energy demands were proposed. At the end of the article benefits of using proposed renewable energy sources were given.