Re: Incineration system disposes of hog manure

["Jon Campbell" <jon@cqs.com>]

There is one other big concern: once installed, these combusters will not
just be used to burn pig sludge. They will be used to dispose of all the
"other" things that pig farms need to dispose of: old
(preservative-contaminated) wood, paint, pesticides, herbicides, PVC trash,
etc. In other words, a large number of new dioxin sources.

>From that perspective, I think it's a crappy idea.

Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Muller <amuller@dca.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list DIOXIN-L <dioxin-l@essential.org>
Date: Monday, January 25, 1999 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: Incineration system disposes of hog manure


>Such a system is certainly possible--from an engineering point of view
anyway--but since it would be "burning"  mostly water, it would probably
have a large negative heat balance and require large amounts of auxiliary
fuel.  Seems very unlikely to be economical in a business as cost-driven as
hog farming.
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