Design and Implementation of Humane Stunner with Multi-Channel Scheme and Killer for Stunning Poultry Applications

The objectives of the project entitled “Design and Implementation of Humane Stunner and Killer for Poultry Applications” are to comply with our national animal welfare policies, to research on humane stunning and killing systems of poultry, to develop new products for power processing applications, to establish and to help promote the humane stunner and killer demonstration systems of poultry, and to incubate and educate the biomechatronic applications oriented engineers and researchers. The project will last for two years, and the aforementioned tasks will be distributed and finished among these two years. In the first year, we will focus on designing and implementing the humane slaughter stunner of a small-scale poultry, which also include two systems of battery and utility line sources. In the second years, we will focus on developing the humane killer systems for the large-scale and small-scale poultry infected avian influenza. In addition, we will establish a technical platform for further research and conduct system commercialization. In this research project, the designed systems are highly innovative and feasible. They are relatively competitive because the volumes of their components are smaller than the existing system. Thus, they possess small volume, facilitate to implement module and to maintain them. Our research group has already accumulated the design experience of livestock and waterfowl stunners and high pulsed voltage generators for many years. In addition, we also went to the slaughterhouse for verifying the hardware of our design stunner system. In the experiment duration, we exchange the suggestions with the slaughtering operator of the slaughterhouse each other. From these experiences, we have accumulated a lot of theoretical and practical knowledge about the livestock and poultry stunning. Based on above experiences, we strongly believe that we are able to fulfill the goals of this project. In particular, this research is a project of a cross-field research. We hope not only to encourage the cross-field research in Taiwan, but to incubate the cross-field researcher by executing this project. It is worth of dedicating in putting long-term effort to them.

Project ID:PB9709-4329
External Project ID:NSC97-2221-E182-062