How Pellets are Made

[Dataman]

 

[mtnbiker727]

Thanks for sharing. I saw a similar video before. It's a pretty neat process, and it's the reason we're all here on hearth.com

 

[bholler]

Save! save! save! pellets can be made for leaving more money in your wallets:
Trash pellets:

Leaf pellets:


coal pellets:

grass pellets:

manure pellets:

sludge pellets:

You do realize the actual material used is a tiny fraction of the end cost to the consumer right?

 

[bholler]

Transportation and distribution is the major cost, we better use materials sourced nearby the consumer market. Every city has yard waste that contains wood, leaf, grass. Every city has sewer sludge. Every city has municipal solid waste.

Yes and how much will it save to use those materials? Will our current pellet stoves safely burn those things?

 

[bholler]

the shredding and extrusion of wood use heavy machinery. Not friendly for town scale operation.
The lowest capital cost setup:
pelletize only soft materials like leaf, grass, paper, sludge
dry the soft materials by burning woody biomass that's hard to grind down.

Again how much will it save?

Who will be setting up these plants?

And again will current stoves burn these products safely?

 

[Washed-Up]

Lots of talk but never saying much

 

[mtnbiker727]

The pellets I buy are made from waste sawdust from a hardwood floor manufacturer located less than 50 miles from here. You'd be hard pressed to get a more efficient use for that material with less transportation.