Heating price worries

[Tom D]

I have a wood burning rayburn, it cost about three grand, but it saves at least a grand a year so a three year return is pretty good i reckon.

[Frank]

A friend of mine just had a Straw burner fitted, runs heating and hot water, cost bout 4grand fitted, but you can chuck anything in. Fence panels, mother-in-law etc etc. haha

[Frank]

just had 500 gallons of Oil delivered aswell, £340.

[firewoodman]

just had 500 gallons of Oil delivered aswell, £340.

 

500 gallons or litres???

[Mr Ed]

last i heard pellets were £90 -120 per ton.

 

thats what i'm told, i dont buy them

 

The only people who get them that cheap is Drax power station.

Domestic high grade 6mm pellets are about £180 per tonne delivered. Still much cheaper than oil or gas.

 

The ideal situation I would like to see is arb firms having the capability to turn all their woodchip and waste into pellets with a £150 per tonne return.

[firewoodman]

how long would it take to produce a ton with your set up your helping with?

[Mr Ed]

Its a fully automated plant, and produces 700kgs per hour. Its designed for 24hr operation, but I'm planning on running mine on a 12 hour per day basis.

[firewoodman]

any idea of costs.

e.g purchase, running, consumables

[Mr Ed]

PM me for details

[Mr Ed]

(note the price of the pellets! and thats at a slightly cheaper price than Oil!)

 

Wood Pellet Fuel

Wood pellet fuel is a renewable, clean-burning high density biomass fuel made from recycled wood waste or sawdust. The use of biomass fuel is a 'carbon neutral' process. The carbon dioxide released by burning is balanced by that absorbed by the tree during its growth.

 

Wood pellet fuel is manufactured from sustainable resources, is Carbon neutral, clean and easy to use. The ash from the pellets, which is rich in minerals can be recycled to fertilise forests, parks or gardens.

 

The wood pellets which have a consistent size (ours are 6mm in diameter) flow like a liquid and so are easy to handle and can be burned in specially designed wood pellet stoves which are fed from a hopper via a worm-drive.

 

It is difficult to say how much wood pellet fuel you will use but if you use one of our smaller wood pelelt stoves, a 15kg bag of pellets may last for about three days. If you were using a wood pellet stove to heat a reasonably well insulated British three bedroom semi-detached house you would probably use 1.5 tonnes of wood pellets over the whole of the winter months.

 

The wood pellet fuel costs £5.25 per 15kg bag inc vat @5% although this price would fall for deliveries of 1 tonne or more. Price comparisons with gas for example are favourable and becoming more so. The price of wood pellets can fluctuate but looks set to fall rather than rise in the near future.

 

Bought as a pallet of 65 bags (975kg)

this works out at £341.25 ex-works.

 

The Artel 6 average usage is about 1kg per hr

This is a running cost of 35p / hr.

 

The Artel 8 average usage is about 1.2 kg per hr

This is a running cost of 42p / hr.

 

The Artel 12 average usage is about 1.6 kg per hr

This is a running cost of 56p / hr.

 

The Artel 14 average usage is about 1.8 kg per hr

This is a running cost of 63p / hr.

 

For local deliveries in the Greater Manchester area we could carry and stack the fuel to where it will be stored. Due to the high energy density of wood pellet fuel there is less volume to transport and store and fewer fuel deliveries to be made.

 

One ton of wood pellets is equivalent to approximately 1.5 m³ of fire wood or 500 litres of heating oil.

 

Wood Pellet fuel quality, standards and availability

 

The wood pellet fuel is held together by the wood's natural lignin that is released during the pelletising process due to heat and compression. This means that no binding agent is necessary.

 

Most wood pellet fuels have a 5-10% moisture content. Well-seasoned fire wood is usually around 20%. Some wood pellets contain either petroleum or non-petroleum lignin used as a lubricant in the wood pellet production process, though most contain no additives. Pellet fuel made from agricultural waste contain more ash, but they may produce more heat than pellets made from wood.

 

Pellet Fuel Specification

 

Bulk density 650 kg / cubic metre

 

Dry matter content 91.5%

 

Calorific value 4.8 kWh / kg

 

Ash content < 0.7%

 

Carbon 50.1% approx

 

Oxygen 42.5% approx

 

Hydrogen 6% approx

 

Nitrogen 0.1% approx

 

Sulphur 0.01% approx

 

Chlorine 0.01% approx