RE: GAS-L: Heat for poultry houses

["Kevin Chisholm" <kchishol@fox.nstn.ca>]

Dear Neal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gasification@crest.org
> [mailto:owner-gasification@crest.org]On Behalf Of CAVM@aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 12:53 PM
> To: gasification@crest.org
> Subject: Re: GAS-L: Heat for poultry houses
>
>
> Tom,
>
> My quest is to find a combustion technology to help the small
> poultry farmer
> who has 4 broiler houses and is getting killed by the cost of
> propane lately.

What about making biogas, and then using the residue as a fertilizer? Might
be a problem if he uses a lot of antibiotics; they can interfer with the
biogas process.

>  Of course, nothing can be done this winter but we can make some
> changes for
> next winter.
>
> Poultry litter, loose, pelleted, or cubed, is an option for fuel,
> as is wood,
> sawdust, coal, whatever.

Where is he located? There may very well be lots of cheaper energy sources
available to him. Usually, sawdust is "free for the hauling", until the
demand increases to the point where they can actually charge for it. Propane
is a relatively expensive fuel...... it may be worth his wile to convert to
#2 oil.
>
> If electricity can be gotten from the system also, maybe it could
> help cool
> the birds in the summer too.

I would suggest that this is an un-necessary complication.
>
> Each house is 50 X 500 usually and 4 houses make a normal set.
> If 2 stoves
> are needed to heat each house that would not be so good, but not terrible
> either.  On the other hand, 1 furnace for all 4 houses maybe out of reach
> economically for the farmer.  Each house needs 500,000 BTU per
> hour normally
> and 700,000 to 1,000,000 peak.

Does he use heat recovery ventillators?

You have an interesting project!!

Kevin Chisholm
>

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