[Stoves] Fuel Testing

[Jeff Davis]

Tom,

Tom wrote:
> The swine solids we used were mechanically dewatered from a confined animal
> feeding operation (CAFO).

Could you tell us how the mechanical dewatering worked or is that explained in 
the full report?


Yes, I also remember that slagging was a problem with the WWII gasifier but it 
was used.


Thanks

Jeff



> 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-----
> From: stoves-bounces at listserv.repp.org
> [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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