I have an unlimited supply of pine chips. It is ground pine logs that is free of dirt, but rather coarse. Is there a stove that could use this material.
How to use this fuel?
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ivanhoe
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I have a relative with a sawdust furnace(wood/oil combo converted) which uses a auger system(finland made) to feed it. You might have to grind your chips into sawdust. Moisture would have to be very low.
I think its worth more to the Co gen plants and paper mills than its worth trying to find a furnace that would burn them. Plus drying them to be burnt is a fairly labor intensive process. They'd have to be turned often to prevent composting. Some sort of tumbler with airflow going through it would work, but we're getting into more machinery and cost.
Markus38
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There are chip boilers i do not know anything about them but Marc is a regular here and he sells them. His web sit is http://www.hydro-to-heat-convertor.com/
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