[Stoves] Crispin's Wood Fired Kiln

[jameshensel at comcast.net]

Crispin, you wrote,  
> I received an interesting request this week - how to fire a kiln with
biomass where the primary fuel is dung.

Why fight mother nature,  Ruminants have spent a lot of time grinding and digesting the fibers down to a uniform size.  Instead of trying to make larger chunks (briquettes) out of the dung, break it a part and feed the kiln as you would with rice husks or saw dust. It may be no more work to break up the dung that to make it into briquettes.

While I not suggesting this here, I toured a cement making rotary kiln (100m long) and they used pulverized coal as the fuel.  They crushed the coal so fine that it acted like a liquid for transport purposes (in pipes) and was introduced into the kiln via a nozzle.

Jim