HOW TO START WITH A SMALL INVESTMENT IN WOOD PELLET PLANT?

It is always fair to say that you invest something at first with a small

This logic is correct, in most cases. But talking about building a pellet plant, things are different.

First of all, you need to understand that, to start a pellet plant as a business, the capacity starts from 1 ton per hour at least.

Because making pellets requires a huge mechanical pressure to the pellet machine, this is not feasible for small household pellet mill, as the latter is designed just for small-scale, e.g. several hundreds of kgs. If you force the small pellet mill to work under heavy load, it’ll break very soon.

So, to do cost down is nothing to complain, but not in the key equipment.

For other supporting machinery, such as the cooling machine, the packing machine, they are not as necessary as pellet machine, if you want, you can even do packing by hand.

The budget of investing a pellet plant is not solely decided by the equipment, it also hugely varies by the feeding material.

For example, if the material is sawdust, things like hammer mill, or dryer is not always needed. While if the material is corn straw, you will have to buy the mentioned equipment for material treatment.

HOW MANY WOOD PELLETS CAN BE PRODUCED FOR ONE TON OF SAWDUST?

To answer this question simply, it depends on the water content. The finished pellets have water contains less than 10%. The total wood pellets production is also a process of losing water.

It is a rule of thumb that the pellets before entering pellet mill should control its water content under 15%.

Take 15% for example, one tone of material contains 0.15 ton of water. After pressing, the water content reduces to 10%, leaving 950kg solid.

HOW TO CHOOSE A TRUSTED PELLET MILL SUPPLIER?

The fact is that more and more pellet mill suppliers in the world are emerging, especially in China. As a Chinese bioenergy information platform , we know things closer than most of the clients. There are some tips that you can follow when choosing a supplier.

Check if the photo of the machines, as well as the projects, are real. Some new factories have less information suchlike. So they copy from others. Take a close look at the photo, sometimes the watermark tells the truth.

Experience. You can get this information by checking the corporate registration history or the website history.

Call them. Ask questions to see if they are competent enough.

Pay a visit is always the best way.