subject: Ways To Employ Pellet Press In Farming [print this page] Along with the growth of technology, with small investment to introduce some technical equipment in your farm, surely you can obtain a profitable success quite deserving of your investment. Pellet mill, a machine producing biomass pellet from the agriculture waste for instance sawdust, weeds, wood leaves, bagasse, corn stalk, rice husk, wheat bran, etc., is strongly recommended here for you. Should you may have heard that biomass energy business is a blossoming industry nowadays, you can either sell the pellets to make a fortune or use them for family use in heating or for other domestic purposes.
The kinds of pellet mills
With various productivity, we can divide pellet mills into three categories--small home pellet mill, large industiral pellet mill, and wood pellet plant. if you simply want to handle with the byproducts of agriculture, you can think of buying small pellet mill with affordable fee. But if they have a great quantity of raw material and have an adequate budget, then they can consider using the large pellet mill or even building up a wood pellet plant to make large output.
How pellet functions to make pellet?
Besides pellet mill, you may still need other equipments to process the raw material before feeding them into the pellet mill. The entire procedure usually comprises the following steps:
1. Chipping & Crushing: In the event the thickness of the raw material is larger than 10 mm or size is greater than 50*50 mm, a wood chipper is needed to chip these materials into smaller pieces. Then employ a hammer mill to further crush these small pieces into particles of below 3 mm in diameter.
2. Drying: After raw materials are crushed, a dryer is required to decrease the moisture content to 13%-15%. After crushing and drying you can begin making wood pellets.
3. Pelletizing: With the pressure from roller of the pellet mill, the raw material is forced from the hole of the die into the shape of pellets.
4. Cooling: The pellets are very hot when it is developed by the pellet mill, you still need a cooler to reduce the temperature from 80 degrees to 35 degrees and reduce the moisture to make it hard enough to come into shape.
5. Packing: When considering protecting the wood pellets from getting damp and increasing storability, proper packing is necessary.
Given above is the brief introduction about the use and working procedure of pellet mills in the agriculture.
