Pelletizers

[Bill Barrett]

Not sure where to ask this. Any of you engineers know about grain, wood, etc. (not plastic but they may work the same) pelletizes?
Thanks

 

[DieselPower]

Pelletizer? Do you mean you want to make wood pellets? If so I think you will find it can get rather expensive to make them. First the sawdust used needs to be heated to between 500-600 deg. F. to remove all moisture and then it is pressed under extremely high preasure into pellets. There is nothing added to bind them together. The naturally occuring lignin in wood is what actually holds the pellets together.

If your really interested in getting into the pellet manufacturing business I would suggest checking with the Pellet Fuels Institute which is a non-profit association for the pellet industry.

Pellet Fuels Institute

 

[Bill Barrett]

Yep looking into wood, biofuels, grass and such. Thanks for the link. I know it's involved looks like 200 to 300 hp to run the machines.