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PelHeat are a UK based company who specialise in the development and promotion of pellet production and combustion solutions. We provide marketing and promotion services to manufactures and retailers of pellet associated goods and services. We also provide a consultancy service to help consumers acquire pellet production and combustion solutions directly from the manufacturer. We promote a range of products from pellet mills and other individual pellet production equipment to small pellet plants, large pellet plants and mobile pellet plants. We have experience in processing a wide range of biomass materials into pellets and their combustion results. We can help you to start your own pellet production from a small lab scale, up to automated large scale production facilities to produce various biomass pellets.

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How Can PelHeat Help You?

We provide a consultancy service to help you acquire directly from the manufacturer, products to meet your pellet production and combustion needs. Browse the products section, contact us, and we will then discuss which products are suitable for your requirements, and help you to complete the order directly with the manufacturer.

What Types of Wood Can Be Processed Into Wood Fuel Pellets?

A wide range of organic materials collectively known as biomass can be processed into fuel pellets. Wood pellets are the most common form of wood pellets, and are available in different grades. The most popular grade of wood pellets used for home heating are premium wood pellets. Premium pellets are produced mainly from either pine, spruce or oak residue. Premium pellets produce very little ash, of around 0.5%. To produce premium pellets the wood residue must contain no bark, as bark will increase the ash content of the fuel above the premium standard rate. Other wood pellets produced are referred to as standard grade pellets.

What Other  Materials Can Be Processed Into Biomass Fuel Pellets?

Many other materials other than wood residue for premium pellet fuel can be processed into fuel pellets. These include other purpose grown and waste wood residues. These include wood chipping from wood land maintenance and purpose grown energy crop species such as short rotation coppice willow. Other biomass resources which can be processed into fuel pellets include, grasses such as Miscanthus, Reed Canary Grass, Switchgrass and Hemp.

Agricultural residues such as wheat and barley straw are also viable biomass resources for fuel pellet production. Other residues from food crop production such as corn cobs can also be processed into pellets. Producing fuel pellets from waste food production residues makes better use of available resources and produces both food and fuel from one crops, without confusing food for fuel. These are just a few of the resources which can be turned into pellets.

How Are Pellets Produced?

Pellets are simply a highly compressed form of the original raw material. Final pellet compression takes place in the pellet mill, however there are several processes required initially before the raw material is suitable for the pellet mill. Particle size and moisture content are two crucial aspects that must be controlled before the raw material can enter the pellet mill. To learn more about pellet production and how wood and other biomass pellets are made, please visit the Pellet Guide above.

Do All Wood Fuel Pellets And Biomass Fuel Pellets Burn The Same?

The simple answer is no, each raw material has its own combustion characteristics. These characteristics range from changes in ash content, to possible clinker and slag formations and corrosion risks due to sulphur and chloride content. Chloride for example is high temperature corrosive, and sulphur is a low temperature corrosive. Different makes and designs of pellet stoves and boilers are produced to handle different levels of ash and corrosion risk.

Wood pellets generate the lowest ash content, and also have the lowest corrosion risk for the stove or boiler. Other biomass fuel pellets such as straw and grass pellets can generate higher levels of ash, and pose a higher corrosion risk to the pellet combustion chamber. Grass and straw pellets however are much cheaper to produce, so much lower fuel costs are possible.

PelHeat Wood Pellet Production And Combustion Solutions

To learn more about the products we are currently promoting and providing consultancy on, please visit the Products page. If you are a manufacturer or online retailer of pellet associated goods, for example pellet production equipment or pellet stoves and boilers, please visit the Services page. If we feel the products would be of interest to visitors of our websites, we could possibly promote the item on the Products page. We also provide other promotion solutions.

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