Pellet Mills

Pellet mills have been traditionally used for feed pellet production for over a hundred years. Pellet mills brought many advantages to the animal feed pellet industry. Firstly, it was now possible to give the animals what they needed, in the correct volumes. For example you could now place vitamins and minerals the animals needed into the feed mix of hay and grass in the correct proportions. Feed pellets also made it much easier to ration out a set amount of feed for the animals on a daily basis. This made the job each day much quicker, and also much easier to keep track of costs. Also, many animal farmers cannot generate enough food of the correct quality themselves, so they had not option but to buy the food and have it delivered. However delivering loose feed, or even baled feed is very expensive. By compressing the feed into pellets, much more food can be transported per trip. Meaning despite the cots of turning the feed into pellets, it was much cheaper than unprocessed feed.

Wood Pellet Market Growth and Fuel

Since the beginning of the 21 century the wood pellet fuel market has been growing year on year. Many of the advantages that pellet mills brought to the animal feed market were also brought to the wood pellet fuel market. These included a high energy content, a standardized product and lower transport costs. The uniform shape and size of pellet fuel meant combustion systems could be made to deal with the fuel automatically. This meant consumers could choose low maintaince systems apposed to using their oil or gas based systems. The pellet market is set to grow as the price of oil and gas will inevitably continue to rise in the future and the concerns over global warming and climate change also continue to increase. Pellet fuel is an efficient low carbon energy.

Small Pellet Mills and Home Pellet Making

The increased demand for pellet fuel, and the desire by many to increase energy independence, has started more and more people to have an interest in producing their own wood pellet fuel. Therefore there has been a growing interest in small pellet mills to operated from home. Many people see the opportunity to not only make there own fuel, but also enough for their neighbours and start a small local business. At PelHeat we encourage this local sustainable pellet fuel operations. Our free consultancy service can help you get the equipment and knowledge you need to start producing pellets. We promote a range of small pellet mills, and we have experience processing a wide range of biomass resources which can be used for fuel pellets other than wood. For more information on PelHeat and our services, please click the logo.

Wood Pellet Mills and Fuel Pellet Making

Wood pellet production is very different from animal feed pellet production. The raw materials used to produce animal feed pellets are very soft malleable materials. Wood has a much higher density, and therefore it is much more different to compress wood into pellet form. Wood pellet mills not only require more energy to compress the wood, a higher operating temperature is required to compress the wood and create a smooth durable pellet shape. Steam conditioners are often used with wood pellet mills.

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.