Biomass Fuel

What is biomass fuel, can how can it be used and utilized into everyday life. There are many different forms of biomass fuels, from basically burning logs, wood chip and pellets and also converting biomass into highly advanced liquid fuels such as ethanol and bio diesel. Different biomass fuels are suitable for different applications. The liquid fuel market is ideal for transportation fuels, bio ethanol and bio diesel can replace a large chunk of the petroleum and standard diesel market place. Another important factor is that they can utilize the current liquid fuel infrastructure of gas stations and cars. Electric cars are seen as the answer to many people, and the best green option. Though electric vehicles maybe the main objective, it cannot be a straight transition. Firstly, time is factor is tackling climate change and provide a cheaper alternative to oil and gas. Therefore biomass liquid fuels can provide an instant replacement. Also, changing all cars and setting up charging stations will create a lot of waste and use up a lot of energy, which will at this point majority sourced from fossil fuels, so at this point its not really a green option. This the case also for the home heating fuels market.

Biomass Energy and Biomass Bioenergy

Home heating currently is where most of the carbon emissions are generate, as it such a huge energy consumer. So how can we use biomass to address this issue, simply using wood pellets and other biomass fuel pellets. You may already be aware of wood pellets, however you have probably not heard of any of the other forms of biomass fuel pellets. Well that's because they currently are not widely available, however in the future a wide range of biomass materials will be available for purchase. This could be from local farming waste for example, using this material created several benefits for the farmer.

Biomass Wood and Biomass Boiler

Wood is still currently the most popular biomass fuel to be processed into pellets. Wood pellets and particularly premium wood pellets. Premium wood pellets are made either from softwood or hardwood sawdust residues, predominantly from timber production. The sawdust must be free from contaminates such as resins, glue and paints as this can create dangerous emissions during combustion. Premium wood pellets also generate very low percentages of ash, around 0.5%. This means premium wood pellets are very low maintenance. Some pellet combustion systems with ash compression can operate for up to 6 months without the ash bin been required to be emptied.

Pellet Plant and Wood Pellet Machines

Pellet production is a energy intensive and technically demanding process. It is impossible to form a hard compact pellet without a consistent raw material at the correct moisture content. Process operating temperature and pressure are also crucial, as it is necessary to melt the lignin within the biomass to process a pellet that holds together and has a high density. Initially the biomass is reduced in size in a hammer mill, and then sent to a dryer to remove the required amount of moisture. The particles are now ready for the pellet mill to produce the finished pellet.

PelHeat Wood Pellet Production Guide

At PelHeat we have many years of experience in pellet production, and we provide a pellet production consultation service. The PelHeat guide download will show you how to make wood and other fuel pellets.