[Stoves] Fuel Testing

[Tom Miles]

Jeff

The swine solids we used were mechanically dewatered from a confined animal
feeding operation (CAFO). When combined with turkey litter the swine solids
burned quite nicely. 

The challenge with these fuels is the high inorganic ash content rich with
compounds that melt at low temperatures. Our object was to recover the heat
for a process, like rendering and recover the phosphorous and potassium for
feed and fertilizer. We find that in our economy there is enough value in
the recovered nutrients to pay for hauling the litter and manure to a
boiler.   

Tom Miles


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:stoves-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Davis
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 10:19 PM
To: stoves at listserv.repp.org
Subject: Re: [Stoves] Fuel Testing

On Sunday 01 October 2006 06:35 pm, Tom Miles wrote:
> We didn't analyze manures in this study because only one plant was burning
> manure in the US at the time. Besides our manures won't be representative
> of dung and manure used in rural areas of developing countries. You can
> find analyses of poultry litter, turkey litter and swine solids that we've
> worked with at:
> http://www.brbock.com/TRM_BRB_.pdf


Dear Tom,

About 20+ years ago I read about using pig dung in WWII gasifiers to fuel
cars 
and trucks. Now I read, in your interesting report, that pig/swine dung has 
nice carbon percentage figures.


Thanks for the info.,

Jeff



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Jeff Davis
Somewhere 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA
http://www.velocity.net/~jeff0124

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