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[FF119]

I was watching a video on a bio mass burner called Bio-burner. It says it burns wood chips,sawdust, and horse manure w/ bedding! Have a small farm and lots of manure but in the video it says it has to be processed through there processor. Sounds $$$$$$. Has anyone looked into this further?What a great concept for small farms with 3-5 horses. Free Manure Free Heat.

http://bioburner.com/
http://bioburner.com/products/biomass-processing-equipment/

[CountryBoyJohn]

Yeah, I can't see that paying off for a standard home owner.  95% of the folks on here are burning wood and the rest coal or wood chips.  Probably won't find any poop burners. 

[slimjim]

Any Biomass burner can burn manure if it is dried down to 40% or so moisture content, The lat I knew the Bio Burner was only tested with the EPA lab for pellets so I'm not sure how it can be promoted as a true Bio Mass boiler.

[tulenutn2o]

I was watching a video on a bio mass burner called Bio-burner. It says it burns wood chips,sawdust, and horse manure w/ bedding! Have a small farm and lots of manure but in the video it says it has to be processed through there processor. Sounds $$$$$$. Has anyone looked into this further?What a great concept for small farms with 3-5 horses. Free Manure Free Heat.

http://bioburner.com/
http://bioburner.com/products/biomass-processing-equipment/

I believe burning poop is common in India, and places like that. Works good for them. Throw a shovel full in every now and then. Don't forget to let us know if it smells like chicken......

[yotehunter66]

Interesting.

[Roger2561]

Early pioneers used to collect the buffalo poop (when dried ) toss them in the fire as a heat source so the way I see it is, it should work in a boiler.  But, does anyone know if burning dung gives off gases that may corrode the mild steel?  Roger 

[AirForcePOL]

I can't see poop having much of a btu content.  I didn't watch the video but it seems like it would take a lot of it and frequent loadings.

[CountryBoyJohn]

And frequent "unloadings".  Sorry I couldn't resist!

[willieG]

searching the net  comes up with 8500 btu in a pound of dried cow manure from a feed lot. so if you burn 8 cords of oak a year you would need about 16 tons of dried cow manure. How many pounds of wet manure would you need to get 1 pound of dry manure?

you would need a big laydown area to dry that out cause i aint never seen a pile ever dry out

[AirForcePOL]

And frequent "unloadings".  Sorry I couldn't resist!

Lol this is true!

[mlappin]

Early pioneers used to collect the buffalo poop (when dried ) toss them in the fire as a heat source so the way I see it is, it should work in a boiler.  But, does anyone know if burning dung gives off gases that may corrode the mild steel?  Roger

Not sure about when its dry, but when we had the dairy we considered investing in a digester to capture the methane and burn it in a generator. I know methane is somewhat corrosive as they have special oil for the Cat generators at the local landfill that burn methane collected from the garbage.

[wissel12]

You would have to turn ton to gallons.

10 tons of water = 2690 gallons

2690 x 8.34 x 1.02 sg. gr x (percent solids in the manure)
That would give you dry solids

Say it was 20%

2690 g x 8.34 x 1.02 sp . gr x .02=915 lbs dry solids


8.34 is the weight of water per gallon

Must wet sludge at a waster water plant is under 10% solids