[USCC] Vertical composting

[Art Krenzel]

You have not begun to see the problems of getting the material to flow down 
the tube and out of the bottom.  A cone bottomed exit would bridge beyond 
your current level of cuss words.

I think it is a great deal of work to use something that was designed to 
store a free flowing solid.

Art Krenzel


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Evans" <tim at timevansenvironment.com>
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Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [USCC] Vertical composting


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> I think it would work but the adaptation would be expensive because you
> would need to put in intermediate floors at say 20 ft intervals.  These 
> live
> floors would break up the material as it exited each section and would
> prevent the massive compaction to which others have referred.  Without
> intermediate floors you would have a stinking, dripping plug of horrible
> material in the towers. I guess you would also need some head-space 
> sensors
> beneath each intermediate floor to prevent too much from being discharged
> from the floor above.  I should think there would be a considerable
> convective/chimney effect so whether you would need additional forced
> aeration is an open question.
>
>
> regards
>
> Tim
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>
> Dr Tim Evans
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Swager, Ronald [mailto:RSwager at patrickengineering.com]
> Sent: 20 September 2006 23:07
> To: compost at composter.com
> Subject: [USCC] Vertical composting
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on converting a number of 25ft diameter, 150
> ft. tall concrete grain elevators into vertical composters?     Would it
> be possible to deal with compaction and air flow problems at depth of
> 100+  feet?  What's the deepest pile of compost anyone's heard of?