If a livestock farms wants to produce molded
compost pellets, it must consider both the method to
be used, and whether the compost used as the raw
material is suitable for pelletrization. Compost of
swine and poultry manure fermented in an enclosed
vertical reactor usually includes few other materials,
so it can produce high-quality pellets. The compost
made by this method is immature because the period
of composting is too short, although it has high
fertilizer efficiency. Additional materials do not
need to be added to the compost, and nitrogen losses
are less than in other methods of compost production.
An enclosed vertical reactor is the most suitable
method of composting the raw material, because to
some extent it can control the moisture content of
the compost.