What does pellet Fuel cost?
Comments OffThe 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 [...]
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 [...]
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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