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Biomass pellet manufactures manufacture biomass pellets for more than a few different purposes in addition to end uses. The core market is biomass pellet energy, on the other hand wood pellet manufactures also produce biomass pellets for animal bedding in addition to even BBQ’s. The core product as well as principle is the same, with a larger collection of biomass resources used to produce BBQ pellets. Wood pellet manufactures use a wood pellet mill to manufacture the pellets. Due to heat as well as pressure a wood pellet can compress biomass residues into pellets. Manufactures have two options of either a flat die pellet mill or a sphere die pellet mill. Both designs have compensation plus disadvantages which are explained in the guide, see below. All pellet mills have a roller plus die configuration. The shape as well as orientation of the die changes with dissimilar designs, and so too does the number as well as shape of the rollers. Biomass pellet mills are under more stress than other pellet mills, owing to increased resistance of the wood along with higher matter density.

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The prices wood pellet manufactures can fee will depend on the quality of the pellet, and the raw material used in manufacture. Energy grade biomass pellets have to meet specific standards on ash percentage plus moisture content, and contaminated biomass cannot at any point be used. Animal bedding pellets are less specific, though the fines (dust) percentage has to be low as this is key selling point of the product. BBQ’s pellets have to meet the highest standards, as they are a food grade product. Animal bedding pellets therefore have the lowest prices, by fuel in addition to then BBQ biomass pellets having the highest prices. How to produce wood pellets is a question that we get asked frequently. The core process relies on a definite relationship between ample amounts of heat as well as pressure to gelatinise the biomass and re-shape it into pellet form. The raw matter must be relatively dry, plus be reduced to a small uniform particle size before pellet compression can take place. Each raw matter behaves differently in a pellet mill, as well as pellet manufacture is often referred to more of an art than a science. To help more people understand the basic processes involved in wood pellet manufacturing, we developed this guide. 

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At PelHeat we develop small mobile wood pellet mill equipment. We constantly receive emails, asking for more information on the biomass pellet production process. Producing pellets on any scale is a skilled process, but even more so on the small scale. To efficiently produce quality pellets constantly, several factors of the process plus raw material have to be restricted. To aid general knowledge of the process, we have developed the biomass pellet manufacture guide, which breaks the process down into an simple to understand ten step guide.

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