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Successful Manure & Waste Management
Student Grants at Work!
April 12th, 2010 by peter
O2Compost awarded two grants in 2009. Justin Heavey, an environmental studies major at State University of New York – Syracuse campus (and member of the Green Campus Initative) was featured in our March Newsletter. Visit the link below to watch a video about the SUNY compost project:
ESF Green Campus Initiative
Composting and Heat Extraction Experiment
August 27th, 2009 by peter
We are often asked the question “Can I warm water (or my tack room or my greenhouse) using the heat from my compost pile?” Intuitively, my answer has been “Yes, of course”, but the question that remained was how to best do this.
As an experiment, I assembed a heat exchanger using 50 feet of 1/2-inch [...]
Question about Heat Transfer
July 6th, 2009 by peter
Laura Lemco, who has been operating an O2Compost system in Colorado since 2008, recently sent us this email:
“People used to joke with me that I should use the heat generated by that huge compost pile to heat my house. By why couldn’t a bin heat a greenhouse?”
Peter’s response:
Your question about extracting heat from the compost pile is [...]
Heat Recovery From Composting
March 24th, 2009 by peter
Heat is the natural byproduct of the biologic process that we call “composting”. It is not at all uncommon to see pile temperatures well above 140 degree Fahrenheit, sustained for several weeks.
Quite often, I am asked the question, “Can I recover some of the heat from my compost pile?” The simple answer is “Yes”, but [...]
Test Piles
September 27th, 2007 by peter
The O2Compost Micro-Bin has proven to be a great success for horse owners with 1 to 4 horses. To date, we have sold over 200 Micro-Bin systems to farms and stables located throughout the U.S. and Canada. Virtually everyone has discovered that aerated composting not only solves their manure management “issues”, but it is also [...]