Wood Pellet Plant

Whole Line Wood Pellet Mill Plant

As promised , today I will be writing about Densification of Wood Biomass to make Wood Pellet .

Wood Pellet can be made of wood sawdust , wood shavings , timber offcut and woodchip .

The purpose of Densification are as follows :-

1 ) common size - enabling automation ( automatic feeding and burning just like diesel/gas burner with high efficiency )

2 ) high calorific value - optimum combustion efficiency ( 90% efficiency is possible )

3 ) high density - lower transportation and storage cost

To achieve the above purpose , Feed Mill Machines have been turn to make wood pellet with some modification as wood have higher density and more difficult to be pelletised compared to animal feed .

Unless you are setting up large size Pellet Mill Plant of 20 TPH , small machineries from China would be more suitable due to their much more lower cost .

From our studies of wood pellet processing , optimum size of operation should be of 2 TPH to 5 TPH due to the availability of raw material , operation cost , profit margin and marketing .

Let's take a closer look at a 2 TPH Whole Line Wood Pellet Plant .

It will include sectional processing as follows :

1 ) Material Processing - Hammermill , Screener - RM75,000

2 ) Drying - Drum Dryer - RM180,000

3 ) Pelleting & Conditioning - Pellet Mill , Conditioner / Cooler - RM160,000

4 ) Packing - Storage Bin , Packing Machine , Weighting Scale - RM30,000

All the Segment above can be connected with belt conveyors , screw conveyors or bucket elavator to make it fully automated with only 5 workers during operation . Additional cost for this could be around RM150,000 .

Electrical , Local Fabrication , Installation Cost , Training will cost another RM120,000 .

Provision for 6 months Spare Parts and Miscellanous will cost RM50,000 .

The above is indicative cost of setting up a Whole Line Wood Pellet Plant based on 2 TPH production .

You could refer to the side bar and the bottom for some pictures of the above machineries .

Call us if you need further consultation .

WOOD PELLET

WOOD PELLET

This is a new industry in Malaysia with only a few small plant of 1 ton per hour ( TPH ) production .

We are putting up a 2 TPH Whole Line Wood Pellet Mill Plant operational in April 2011 .

Write us if you need Wood Pellet or want to set up a Wood Pellet Plant .

The chart shows normal Biomass Calorific Value with various Moisture Content .

These means the higher the Moisture Content ( water in the Biomass ) the lower the Calorific Value of the biomass because when you burn biomass you will need to heat the biomass to above 250 ºC . before you reach this temperature , during combustion water need to evaporate at 100 ºC , the more water you have in the biomass the more energy you need to spent to evaporate the water thus the lower Calorific Value if the MC of the biomass is high .

It means , you are buying WATER not ENERGY !!!

Many articles have put Wood Pellet Calorific Value at 4,200 kCal/kg with bulk density of 600 kg/m3 thus making it more viable to be transported over long distance as compared to woodchip at 300 kg/m3 and sawdust at 200kg/m3 .

Furthermore Wood Pellet are dry at below 10% MC thus giving it a high ratio of enegy / volume .

From the table , Wood Pellet are reasonably priced in relation to it's energy value . The high cost per ton are due to processing cost needed for densification and drying .

As Wood Pellet are of constant size it usage can be easily automated just like gas or diesel burner . And the beauty is you can achieve over 90% combustion efficiency just like gas / diesel burner as compared to normal burning in furnace which efficiency are low at below 80% combustion efficiency . It is very technical !

In fact , most European Countries and now Korea , combustion now have shift to Wood Pellet from gas or diesel due to it's availability , environmental concern and government tax on fossil fuel .

Lately there is this hot topic of turning EFB to EFB Pellet . It would be great if it is suitable and there is market for it .

We are working on launching Wood Pellet Burner in a few months time together with our Wood Pellet .

STAY TUNED .