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Pellet Fuel Benefits
Due to a energy shortage in the U.S, Wood pellets were engineered and that was way back in the 1970s and are generally manufactured from wood waste generated in saw mills, furniture manufacturing facilities, paper mills, etc. Burning wood pellets can be used as a substitute for electricity; wood-fueled fireplaces and stoves; or fossil fuels, such as propane or natural gas. Pellet fuel is burned in appliances, such as freestanding stoves, fireplace inserts, furnaces or commercial burners too name a few.
Convenience of Pellet Fuel
- Clean and allergy-free. No dust or dirt is brought into the home with pellet fuel compared to other fuels.
- Stored in a smaller space. Four times more pellet fuel can be stored in a given space than cordwood or wood chips. A winter’s supply of pellets for an average home occupies a space roughly 6’ x 6’ x 6’, which makes them easy to store in a small area of a dry garage, basement, utility room or shed.
- Easy to use. Load once a day. Precisely regulated fuel feed automatically operates the stove according to owner-determined settings.
Efficiency of Pellet Fuel
- More efficient fuel than cordwood. Pellets have five to 10 percent moisture content in comparison to 30 to 60 percent for cordwood and woodchips. This means pellets are a more efficient fuel to burn whcih in long run saves money.
- Higher Btu content than cordwood. Wood pellets have a Btu output content of 350,000 per cub. Ft. of fuel, versus 70,000 to 90,000 for cordwood or wood chips. This means pellets produce more heat than cordwood or wood chips.
Environmental of pellet fuel
- All natural fuel. Once compressed and dried, pellets hold their form with natural lignin, which means no glue or binders are required as a binder.
- Cleaner burn. Pellet fuel has proven to provide the cleanest burn of any solid fuel. Pellet stoves exhaust an average of 1.2 particulate grams per hour – well below the United States EPA woodburning limit of 7.5 grams. This is because the combustion air can be easily regulated, which optimizes the burn efficiency, and because of pellet’s low moisture content.
Sustainability of Pellet Fuel
- Energy from waste. Pellet fuel is made of waste products. It is a practical way to utilize biomass materials from sustainable forest initiatives, especially for commercial applications
- Other Biomass products. Cornstalks, straw, wastepaper and even animal waste can be converted into pellets.
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What kind of Pellet Fuel can I use?
Wood Pellets
All pellets are not the same, as they are made form different combinations and types of wood. Curenttly there is over 70 companies in the USA that manufacturing pellet fuel and each one has their own secret recipe. The Pellet Fuel Insitute the industry trade assocation regulates the size and quality of the pellet fuel, which they test thinks like ash content analysis. Ash content determines whether a pellet is considered premium (less than 1% ash content or standard (less than 3% ash content.)
North America produces about 300 million tons of corn, wich is enough corn to heat over 115 million homes. Shelled Corn has about the same BTU as wood pellet fuels (8,000 Btu/lb), but has more ash so the maintenance on the pellet stove in terms of ash removal is greater.
One acre will yield 3.8 tons of shelled corn, enough to heat 1.5 homes and is equal to 11.5 barrels of oil. Heating with a closed loop energy crop such as corn can reduce green house gases (CO2) by as much as 5.1 tons of CO2 per home per year.
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Pellet Fuel Manufacturers
Pellet fuel has grown in demand over the past decade with many different tyes of pellet fuels like wood, paper and even shelled corn. Consumers interested in expanding their options for purchasing pellet fuel should seek out additional vendors.
Here’s some simple steps you can use to find a pellet fuel manufacturer in the USA or Canada
Step #1 - Choose manufacturers closest in geography
Step #2 - Call several manufacturers for the names of their retailers in your area
Step #3 - Contact those retailers for current inventory and pricing
Wood Pellet Fuel
Wood pellet fuel is made from sawdust and ground up wood chips, which are biomass waste materials from trees used to make furniture, lumber, and other such products. Therefore very environmentally friendly as only waste products are used.
Typically wood pellet fuel have alow moisture content of approx. 5%–10% compared to 15% for
fuel shelled corn and around 20% for seasoned fire wood.
Some wood pellet fuels contain either petroleum or non-petroleum lignin used as a lubricant in the pellet production process, though most contain no additives. Pellets made from agricultural waste contain more ash, but can produce more heat than wood pellet fuel.
Under the PFI standards, there are two pellet fuel grades:
premium and standard.
The main difference between grades is in the inorganic ash content, premium pellet fuels should be
less than 1% ash content where as standard pelet fuel which is less than 3%. Premium is usually made of core wood (not bark).
Pellet stoves designed for low-ash (typically top-fed stoves) tend to operate poorly
when used with pellets of a higher ash content. Many pellet appliance
manufacturers are redesigning their products to burn pellets with varying ash
contents.
Although pellet fuel availability is increasing, you should be sure there is a reliable
pellet fuel supplier in your area before purchasing a pellet stove.
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Comparing Pellet Fuel Energy Costs
Before we look at the cost of the pellet fuel, we have a quick look at the prices for pellet stove appliances which can range from about $1,700 to $3,000 for the stove and from $150 to $400 for installation. When we start comparing prices of pellet stoves against those of wood stoves, we can remember that pellet stoves offer a substantial savings as they don’t require installation of a full-height conventional chimney or flue, which is typically the most costly part of some fireplace and wood stove installations.
Now back to the pellet fuel cost we can compare the price to the cost of wood. Pellet fuel are more expensive, at $130 to $200 per ton, compared with firewood, which runs from $100 to $175 per cord. But we can’t just compare like that.
One ton of pellets fuel consists of 50 bags that weigh 40 pounds each. A cord of wood, which measures 4 feet by 4 feet by 8 feet is purchased by volume, which of course includes the voids between stacked logs and the moisture in wood that can’t be converted to heat (20 percent to 30 percent). As a rule of thumb, one ton of pellets is roughly equivalent to about 1 1/2 cords of wood.
We can also evaluate based in the usage. Wood stove users burn from around 3 to 4 cords of wood per year. An average pellet stove appliance will use from 1 to 3 tons of pellets per year. Figuring in the costs above, pellets are often less expensive than cord wood. Of course, other advantages are time, as you save on the stacking and carrying of wood, and you need less storage space too, pellets can be stored in only one-third the space needed for cord wood.
A key factor to the cost of pellets is the location as you will need a supply nearby else you end up playing for transportation. Most of the pellet mills in the United States and Canada are located near lumber mills, furniture manufacturing, or millwork plants so be sure to ask your wood stove dealer about sources and prices.
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What does pellet Fuel cost?
The current cost of pellet fuel ranges anywhere from $120-200 per ton and averages $150, but of course this will vary by availablility, region and of course season, as do other heating fuels.
One good advantage with Pellet fuel is they can be stored aeasily as they come in bags, so many consumers will buy in the chea summer season rather than wait to the expense winter season.
The selling price, of course, is only a part of the overall cost. The primary issue is the cost of energy, which is measured in dollars per million British thermal units ($/MM Btu). Pellets purchased at the average $150 per ton and burned in a typical pellet stove cost about $11.50 per million Btu, a figure that is less than the cost of electric heat and competitive with average energy costs of some other fuels.
While tables and charts assume average appliance efficiencies and fuel costs, real world experiences vary widely. The actual cost of heating a home must take into account other factors like your homes insulation and tightness of the home, its size and layout, the level of comfort desired, and local climate.
Other economic factors impacting energy costs, though hard to quantify, are also worth consideration. Biomass pellets reduce the use of dwindling fossil fuels, often imported from foreign countries. Every ton of waste material used in pellets fuel reduces the rising costs associated with waste disposal.
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Common characteristics of all pellet fuels?
Although the chemical constituents and moisture content of different biomass materials vary, the Pellet Fuel Institute has identified the common characteristics and developed the fuel standards.
These voluntary industry standards will assume as much uniformity in the pellet fuel as is possible for naturally grown materials. PFI graded fuel must meet tests for the following areas:
- Density-consistent hardness and energy content (minimum 40 pounds/ cubic foot)
- Dimensions-length (1 1/2″ maximum) and diameter (1/4″or 5/16″) to assure” predictable fuel amounts and to prevent fuel jamming
- Fines-limited amount of sawdust from pellet breakdown to avoid dust while loading and problems with pellet flow during operation (amount of fines passing through 1/8″ screen no more than .5% by weight)”
- Chlorides-limited salt content (no more than 300 parts per million) to avoid stove or vent rusting
- Ash-important factor in the maintenance frequency.
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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 stoed in any small utility room, store, shed, or basement.
Another bag plus is that pellets can be easily loaded into the stove hopper, the small szie of the pellet fuel allows for precisely regulated fuel feed. which in turn allows the combustion air to be regulated easily for optimum burn efficiency since the amount of fuel in the burn pot is predictable and consistent. A high combustion efficiency is also due to the uniformly low moisture content of pellets (consistently below 10% compared to 20 to 60% moisture content in cordwood).
A high heat output and a very low level of uwanted emmissions due to the uniformly low moisture, controlled fuel batches, and precisely regulated combustion of air.
Pellet fuels have other environmental benefits besides clean burns. As a biomass fuel, pellets offer the advantages of sustainable energy supplies through renewable raw materials which in the long term only can benefit the world. In addition, pellets are a by-product, not a primary user, of these renewable materials. Using pellets also helps reduce the costs and problems of waste disposal.
In 1993-94, more than 6.5 million cubic yards of waste were diverted from landfills and converted to home heating in the form of pellets. So you can see you can save money and help the world by using Pellet fuels.
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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 like nut hulls.
Therefore standard pellets should only be used in stoves designated for their use whereas Premium grade pellet fuel (less than 1% ash content) is usually produced from soft or hardwood sawdust containing no tree bark. Ash content varies in premium fuels from about .3% for western softwoods to about .7% in eastern hardwoods.
95% of current production is made of Premium pellets fuel and can generally be burned in stoves calling for either standard or premium fuel. Increased availability of the standard fuel is planned as stove designs continue to improve ash their tolerance. The ash content will determine the fuel grade because of its role in maintenance frequency. It is the prime factor that determines maintenance frequency of ash removal from the appliance and venting system. In the early version of pellet stove designs, fuel compatibility was the critical factor that determined whether a stove worked well or not.
Pellet Fuel grade and specific ash content within a fuel grade are still to be considered, but advances in pellet stove technology are making fuel choice wider and easier. The size of the ash drawer, fuel feed and grate design, proper venting, correct operation and maintenance all play a part in maintenance frequency.
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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 and prisons. North American pellets are produced in manufacturing facilities in USA and Canada, Pellet fuels are available for purchase at building supply stores,nurseries, firelace dealers, feed and garden suppliers.
Pellet fuels are a way to divert millions of tonnes of waste which will end up on landfill sites and turn them to an energy source.
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