EPI recently completed poultry litter tests with its bubbling fluidized bed (BFB) technology (Murphy, 2000). These test results illustrate several techniques for dealing with the difficult fuel properties of poultry litter and are very encouraging concerning the technical feasibility for using the EPI BFB technology with poultry litter as a fuel. The BFB technology uses a sand bed that is suspended via combustion air injected at the bottom of the bed. The bed contains a significant store of energy that drives off most of the fuel moisture before igniting the fuel. This allows use of fuels that are wetter and of poorer energy value than other combustion technologies. The turbulent bed also prevents ash residue from building up on fuel particles as they burn, thereby providing virtually complete burnout of high-ash fuels. In addition to improving energy efficiency, complete burnout improves the fertilizer value of the ash. When lime is injected with the fuel, the bed turbulence provides good mixing of the lime and fuel with the bed material, increasing lime effectiveness in reducing SOX emissions and preventing bed agglomeration from high-alkali fuels. No fuel preparation is required for poultry litter.