Re: GAS-L: Heat for poultry houses

[Peter Singfield <snkm@btl.net>]

Try this Url:

http://www.heuristicengineering.com/examples/examples.html

For an interesting option.

As in:

Finally, disposal of poultry litter is a major problem in the Delmarva
(Delaware, Maryland and Virginia) peninsula of the US.  Phosphorus and
nitrate runoff contaminate local rivers leading to outbreaks of toxic
pfiesteria piscicida. The most recent outbreak was in the summer of 1997.
The runoff is from the fields of chicken farmers to which poultry litter is
liberally applied.  Restrictions on poultry litter as a fertilizer are
being imposed.

One solution is to externally co-fire existing oil-fired boilers in poultry
processor plants with the products of combustion of poultry litter disposed
in an EnvirOcycler.  The oil displaced by the poultry litter can be used to
pay the chicken farmers a nominal $5/ton for poultry litter delivered to
the plant.  This solution is discussed at length in the paper Martin and
Lefcort presented to the 17th Annual Pittsburgh International Coal
Conference, September 2000.

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Peter Singfield / Belize


At 12:48 PM 1/31/2001 EST, you wrote:
>You are right, there are a number of options including sawdust, coal and
even 
>methane from the litter.  I live in Kentucy where we had no poultry industry 
>5 years ago and now have 2000 houses in 3 counties.  But we work all across 
>the country and we hear the same things from North Carolina, Georgia, 
>Arkansas, Oklahoma, etc.
>
>What we want to do is to offer an alternative heating system for the
farmers. 
> The money they save in fuel costs may be their profit next year.
>
>Neal Van Milligen
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>In a message dated 1/31/2001 11:30:00 AM Central Standard Time, 
>kchishol@fox.nstn.ca writes:
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> 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. >>
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