Making

Wood Pellets

Wood pellets are growing a home heating alternative to oil and gas. Wood pellets are also been used for industrial heating projects, and even generating electricity with advanced new closed loop steam engine generators. This increase in interest and demand for wood pellets, has obviously led to an increase in interest in how to make wood pellets and other biomass fuel pellets. Many different wood and biomass materials can be compressed into the pellet from. As you can see from the video below of a pellet boiler.

However, you cannot and should not assume that making wood pellets, or any pellets for that matter is a simple process. There are many variable that need to be controlled and adjusted in order to make high quality pellets consistently. So what is a high quality pellet? Well, when talking about fuel pellets, you want the pellet to have a good density. Density is keep to efficient combustion and reducing particulates that cause smoke. Also, as part of a good density, you will have minimal fines. Fines are particles that went through the process, but did not form a pellet. This fines reduce combustion, create additional mess and can eventually block up the auger systems used on pellet stoves and boilers. When it comes to making wood pellets, you first want a good raw material that is clean from contaminates such as stone or metal particles. You also should not use wood which has been treated or painted due to the emissions generated during burning. You then need to dry the wood to around 15% moisture, run through a hammer mill, and then finally the pellet mill. Seems simple doesn't it, well there are many things that can go wrong, but can be solved if you know what you are doing.

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