The Process Of Pelleting With Machines and Presses

Pelleting is a process of material compression into the form of a pellet. The advantages of the pelleting process are reduced raw material transportation costs, easier material handling and in the form or fuel pellets much more efficient combustion in stoves and boilers.

A pelleting machine can be used to reduce the size and volume of many different raw materials, for many different markets and purposes. One of the most popular and growing markets for pelleting and pelleting machines in wood pellets. Wood pellets are fuel.

How Are Quality Wood Pellets Made?

Wood pellets are produced from mainly waste wood residues from timber processing. However some wood pellets are produced from diseased wood or purpose grown energy crop species such as willow. The wood pellet has grown rapidly over the last decade, and continues to grow globally at an impressive rate.

The Process Of Burning Wood Pellets

Depending on the source and type of wood residue used to produce the pellets, the burning characteristics of the wood pellets change. For example the highest grades of wood pellets can produce an ash content as low as 1%, while other types will produce up to 3% ash. However all wood pellets produce less ash than simply burning logs due to the increased combustion efficiency a more complete burn is achieved. Below is a video of burning a collection of biomass pellets, including wood pellets.

The Features Of The Pellet Machine

A pelleting machine works on the principle of compression and heat. Heat is generated through the friction of material compression and it is necessary to melt the material to hold in pellet form. Both large and small pelleting machines are available for processing various different biomass resources. A pelleting machine comprises a die with a series of holes, and set of compression rollers to push the material.

Learn How To Make Wood Pellets

More and more people are interested in how pellets, and particularly how wood pellets are made. However pelleting is a tricky and technically demanding process. Pelleting by many people has been described as more of an art than a science. The reasons for this is each raw material has it own characteristics, and performs differently during the pelleting process. You can see a range of pellet presses in action on the next page. You will find a sample of videos from our YouTube video collection. The first is of our Mini Pellet Mill which can even operate from a standard domestic electrical socket. We also offer highly professional automated pellet plant to produce a range of pellets.

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