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It is projected that swine manure solids can be used for heating agricultural facilities. Therefore, this study focused on the possibilities of using swine manure as a solid fuel instead of composting it. Moisture content, ash content, volatile content, calorific value, TGA (thermogravimetric analysis), and elements in the swine manure were determined. After dehydrating the manure completely in a drying oven, its calorific value and ash content were measured. They appeared to be 3,517 kcal/kg and 16.6%, respectively, which satisfies the standard value of livestock solid fuel: heating value of 3,000 kcal/kg or above and ash content of 30% or below. Based on this result, it is concluded that using swine manure solids as a solid fuel is possible. Furthermore, when the chemical elements of C, H, O, N, S, Cl, etc. in the manure were analyzed, there was 33.75 ~ 45.98% of carbon and 31.55 ~ 41.20% of oxygen, which indicates that most of the manure was composed of combustible materials. However, there were cases where the percentage of water content in the manure exceeded 70%, implying that costs for dehydration would become expensive because it needs to be lowered to 20% in order to be used for energy source. Therefore, in order to use the swine manure as an energy source, minimizing the manure’s percentage of water content at the farm without any outside financial input is the biggest task to be solved.
