New hot air furnace showed up

[fuelfarmer]

For years poultry farmers have dreamed of heating barns using waste (" litter" ) from the barns. Although anything can be done with enough money, clean burning litter burners that have a reasonable pay back have been hard to find.

Last week a burner showed up at the farm. A number of interested groups have chipped in time and money to help get this project going. We hope to have it up and running in a week or two.

The unit is a 500,000 btu hot air furnace.

 

[Floydian]

fuelfarmer,

You sure have some interesting stuff going on!

Where are you located? I'm guessing a couple of hours north of me on I81.

How dry does the litter need to be? what kind of btu content per pound?

Noah

 

[fuelfarmer]

We are near Harrisonburg in the Shenandoah Valley.

The litter can be around 30% moisture and the but per lb is in the 4000 range.

 

[fuelfarmer]

Duct system is installed. Stack needs to be installed and we should be ready to test run the new unit.