Pelleting Machine

and Pelleting

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. 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

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 at an impressive rate.

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.

Pellet Machine

A pelleting machine works on the principle of compression and heat. Heat is generated through the friction of material compression, and 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.

How To Make Wood Pellets

More and more people are interested in how pellets, and particularly how wood pellets are made. However pelleting is 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.

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.

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The Wood Pellet Production Guide © PelHeat Ltd - Pelleting and Pelleting Machine

The PelHeat Wood Pellet Production Guide provides an introduction to how biomass pellets and wood pellets are produced. The guide covers how a pellet mill,

pellet press and pellet machine operate to manufacture wood fuel pellets. Several factors influence the quality of pellet fuel and pelleting and pelleting machine