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- The Pellets are a modern form of densified biomass
offering interesting opportunities for development of Renewable
- Wood pellets have increased tremendously in
popularity as a heating fuel during recent years in Cold countries, with
many homeowners and commercial facilities choosing pellet stoves or
boilers over traditional wood-fired equipment due to their relative ease
of use
- A wide array of biomass materials, besides wood can
be used to manufacture pellets, most notably perennial grasses such as
switchgrass or miscanthus. Sawdust and other waste products are also
used
- Cordwood, wood pellets, wood chips, waste paper,
cornstalks, straw, even animal waste along with a dozen other
agricultural byproducts capable of being burned for heat
- Pellet fuel is a way to divert millions of tons of
waste from landfills and turn it into energy
- Wood pellet is produced by mixed biomass residues
through a quite simple process of milling, drying and compacting. The
main advantage of compactation is the high density of the product in
comparison with the other unprocessed biomass and therefore containing a
high energy content. It also enables the production of a standardised
fuel and reduction in the cost of handling, storage and transport.
- Necessary equipment for making pellets is available
at a variety of sizes and scales, which allows for everything from the
smallest scale to the largest commercial plants
- The standard shape of a fuel pellet is cylindrical,
with a diameter of 6 to 8 millimeters and a length of no more than 38
millimeters. Larger pellets are also occasionally manufactured;
if they are more than 25 millimeters in diameter, they are usually
referred to as “briquettes.”
- Pelletizer requires between 50 and 100 kilowatts of
electrical demand for every ton per hour of production capacity. The
savings in GHG emissions is considerable because pellets (at 5 kg CO2e/GJ)
have much lower emissions than coal
(96 kg CO2e/GJ) and natural gas (62.13 kg CO2e/GJ).
- There is excellent growth seen for wood pellets in
European markets. It is worth noting that the cost of pellets is cheaper
than fossil fuels, such as oil or gas.
- Industrial wood pellets are expected to become a
global commodity like coal and oil in the future
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- The Next Generation of Heating Technology
- Manufacturing Fuel Pellets from Biomass
- Biomass Gasification
- Wood Pellet Boiler
- Pellet Institute
- Adding Lignin
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Global Pellet Market
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- Wood Pellet Combustion
- Small-Scale CDM Project Concept Document
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