Biomass Energy

The First Pellet Mill in the World

When we talked about the pellet mill, or pellet press, the common misunderstanding is that it is a extrusion machine but not a molding machine. In fact, the first pellet mill starts to work on the molding process in 1900. The pellet mill is consist of a pair of rollers which has the same form.

What is Sugarcane Bagasse?

Sugarcane, or sugar cane, is a well known economic crop with a sweet taste and an important application. Due to its application , the sugarcane can be divided into two types, the chewing sugarcane and the one to be the raw material of sugar industry. The chewing sugarcane is the one to be tasted freshly, this kind of sugarcane remains a thin skin, less fiber content, a crisp stem, medium sugar content and juicy taste. Otherwise, the sugarcane for sugar production normally has a high sugar content, hard skin and coarse fiber which taste badly. Sugarcane is an annual or perennial herb mainly grown in tropics and subtropics. The origin of sugarcane may be New Guinea or India, and then spread to South Pacific.

To set up a wood pellet plant is never simple as purchasing some pellet equipment, it is a sophisticated process that includes several stages and kinds of researches and designs. Therefore, with long time working experience in the pellet manufacture industry, many pellet plant engineering companies extend a kind of serve which is called “ pellet plant consultant”.

What is Pellet Plant Automation?

Theoretically, every industry will experience a period of automatic revolution.  As the computer information technology is developed, the control system and even the production line of the plant are tend to be automatic. Take wood pellet production industry as an example, for small scale wood pellet production, the pellet mill with manual control system is the standard and most popular pattern, as a result of the non-commercial wood pellet production or the limited budget.

For the newcomers, to have a general idea about the wood pellet manufacture industry is one of the eager requests, such like the wood pellet plant process flow. It is easy for everyone to understand that the main equipment in pellet plant is the pellet mill which is used to mold the raw materials into wood pellet, but the whole wood pellet manufacture process requires many different treatments before and after the pelletizing process. The basic wood pellet plant process includes 8 steps, and in the rest of this article, I will try to give the beginners some detail information about each wood pellet plant process and the machines it may need.

No matter which industry you are in, the aware of the industry knowledge is the foundation of success. Take the wood pellet manufacturing industry as an example, for the seasoned wood pellet manufacturers, buying the wood pellet machines for their pellet plant is an easy choice, but for the newcomers, the lack of industry knowledge may generate some hidden problems which becomes the potential dangers for their wood pellet plant, such as the pellet plant safety issues.

Wood Pellet Gossips

The utilization of wood pellet can be traced back to 1930s. At first, wood pellet is just a by-product of sawmills and pulp & paper industry, due to its large raw material range e.g. wood shavings, wood chips, sawdust, bark and other wood wastes. As the popularity of the wood pellet is growing, it has become an actual trading commodity, and even a blooming industry.

Wood Pellet Plant Design Introduction

When we talk about wood pellet plant design, many people may think it is about the decoration, such as the facade of the factory, the color, the layout, and so on. In fact, the wood pellet plant design is the most important pre-step to set up a wood pellet plant. It is the reflection of the pellet plant capacity, pellet plant materials, and the wood pellet market you supply.

The Definition of Biomass Energy

  • What is biomass?

The European Directive 2009/28/EC on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources gives us the definition of biomass:
Biomass means the biodegradable fraction of products, waste and residues from biological origin from agriculture ( including vegetal and animal substances ), forestry and related industries including fisheries and aquaculture, as well as the biodegradable fraction of industrial and municipal waste.