Experimental investigation on horse manure drying for an efficient and self-supporting combustion

This work investigates the horse manure drying process to make it suitable for an efficient combustion. Customized furnaces will be required, where drying and burning are integrated. Several drying devices having different air-manure contact configuration have been experimentally designed, assembled and tested. They include an aerated hopper, a fixed packed bed dryer and a rotary dryer in both through-circulation and cascade configuration.