subject: Steps To Create Sugar Cane Waste Material Into Pellet In Brazil [print this page] Being the largest exporter of sugar cane in the world, Brazil has gradually seen better utilization for its a large number of storing of raw material in constructing biomass pellet industry by making use of the bagasse, the byproduct of sugar cane.
Bagasse Can be done into Fine Pellet
As it is known to all, biomass pellet can be modified by any kind of agricultural residue or waste-product of other processes. Bagasse is the residue of sugar cane which has been dried out of water, which can meet the standard of pellet raw material. If you just let the bagasse decay, it will release methane, and thats 20 percent more dangerous to the ozone layer.
Bagasse in Brazil is used to provide energy for cogeneration plants or national grid, but there are still around 25 million tons which is not used. As the demand of pellet fuel in the market is increasing everyday, it will bring in great revenue if those 25 million tons of sugar cane waste can be changed to pellet fuel.
How to make bagasse into fuel?
For making bagasse into fuel, we must have pellet mill. After the bagasse isprocessed into powder, it can be fed into the pellet mill. Next we are able to directly use pellet mill to compress them into pellet by the movements of a die and a collection of rollers inside the mill. The rotary roller will force the bagasse powder out of the hole of the die into small granule. And then the cutter outside of the mill will cut the granule in the appropriate length between 3 and 5 cm. Apart from pelletizing, there might involve other processes. For example, you have to crush and dry the raw material before feeding into the pellet mill and after the pellet is made, you need to cool down the temperature of the pellet and package them into bags. Therefore, apart from pellet mill, we still need other auxiliary equipments such as crusher, dryer, cooler and packaging machine to build a pellet making production line.
How to create a production line to make bagasse pellets?
There are many manufacturers who can supply you with a complete pellet production line. As China is the largest supplier of pellet mill, they can offer buyer with diverse kinds of pellet mills both for small-scale production and large-scale production. For instance, AKG BiofuelTech is probably the major manufacturers of pellet mill who have successfully commissioned 200 production lines in the domestic China with strong technology support.
The European Biomass Association predicts that by 2020 the European Union will utilize 100 million tons per year of pelletized biofuels, so it is never too soon to start pellet making business currently.
