Pig manure causes severe environmental pollution due to inappropriate treatment. Utilization of energy from pig manure could reduce the environmental pollution, and provide large amounts of energy. At present, the energy utilized from pig manure is limited to anaerobic fermentation, which needs large investment and causes secondary pollution. Direct combustion technology is a new technology to generate energy by utilizing pig manure. To investigate the feasibility of this technology, piglets, fattening pig and sows were fed on corn-soybean meal diets and their fresh manure was collected in thi...