What advantages do pellet fuel offer?
The first thing that attracts people to pellet fuel is their convenience. As a bag of pellet fuel can be stored and stacked easily, to store one ton of pellet fuel only requires a volume of 4ft x 4ft x 4ft which is approx half the space of wood. Bags of pellet fuel can be [...]
Difference between standard and premium grade fuel?
All of the measurable characteristics defined by Pellet fuel Institute standards are basically the same except for ash content in both grades. Standard grade pellet fuel (up to 3% ash content) is typically derived from materials which result in more residual ash, such as sawdust containing tree bark (which contains more impurities) or agricultural residues [...]
What is Pellet Fuel
Pellet fuel is a renewable, clean-burning and cost effective home heating alternative which is currently used throughout North America with approximate 800,000 homes in the U.S. using wood pellets for fuel for heat in free standing stoves, furnaces and fireplace inserts.
Pellet fuel for heating can also be found now in large environments such as schools [...]
Where do pellets fuel come from?
Daily pellet mills receive, sort, grind, dry, compress, and bag wood and other biomass waste products into a conveniently handled pellet fuel (Figure 1).
Curently North America has over sixty pelet mills that produce over 610,000 tons of pellet fuel per year, a figure that has more than doubled in the last five years and will [...]
What are pellets made of ?
All pellet fuels are biomass materials meaning products of commonly grown plants and trees. Typically they are made of sawdust and ground wood chips, which are bi products of furnitur, lumber and other products. Binders (lignin) and resins naturally occur in the sawdust and this blinds the pellets together. Other products like nut hulls and [...]
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