A new chicken litter-fueled biomass furnace is set to improve poultry health and farmers’ operating margins by more than $15,000 a year per broiler house.
The Global Re-Fuel PLF-500 warm-air biomass furnace converts raw poultry litter into energy, eliminating the use of propane by providing heat to broiler houses and creating a pathogen-free organic fertilizer. Decreasing the use of propane improves poultry health. That’s because with each gallon of propane burned almost a gallon of water is released into the air, creating excess humidity that contributes to an increase in ammonia, a rise in poultry house pathogens and disease transmission. Additionally, the furnace helps eliminate darkling beetles, further improving poultry health and reducing poultry house damage.