Captin Pellet

sorry guys. It's not easy being a dyslexic agnostic. I often lie a awake wondering if there is a dog.

Hi Luke, Just saw your post. Very clever idea. I see your problem with comparing like for like. A lot of producers are signing up to the woodsure scheme, with is veted by HETAS. This maybe something worth discussing with them. Not sure about the suppliers comments about a price war. What you would be offering would be no different to a broker for biomass on a larger scale. There's alway a market price and transparency is no bad thing.

There will be a commercial use for this in the near future. The pellet market is growing in the UK and is set to grow between 50 - 60%. At some point there will be a big problem with the supply of biomass for this market and there will be competition for fibre for pellets. this material is already rendered down, it would require drying. If free of any nasties, a bulk load would have some value. Oak makes great pellets and the experience I had selling oak pellets was that most pellet boiler owners preferred these as they used 20 % less pellets compaired to softwood.

John, Not had any experience of confer or Scott and Sargent. I used to have a Chinese machine and it worked, but needed so much attention. The other downside was it relied on so much human effort and skill to make it work. Repairing it was a sod, purely down to the quality of steel. Had lots of fun drilling dies too. Never a problem with P-systems machine. As long as the material was dry and free from oversize material it would run 13hrs +. Really good for hardwood sawdust.

Hi Tom, The grade of material is dependent on pellet diameter. if your Pelleting a 6mm pellet then you would need a 6mm screen for sawdust and preferably a 5mm screen or less if you where working with shred or chipped wood. The window for Pelleting is between 15 and 10% moisture content by weight. 12% is the ideal. Our machines add water when then material is too dry and in practice if you can over dry your material a bit the machine will add water to get the mix right continuously. Hope this is useful

Hi, What are you looking to pellet and what quantity per annum. Can you give me and idea of size and moisture content. Regards Stephen

Hi guys, Thought I'd just jump in. Pellheat generate leads for farm feeds systems. All the machines they sell are farm feed systems. Before that they were pushing Chinese kit onto the market. I sell a very very celer pellet presses and dryers made by P system from Italy. Much smaller and more sophisticated that farm feeds. We have over 300 intallation over the world. http://Www.pelletsystens.co.uk These are not cheap, but run unattended and don't block up and the foot print is tiny compared to farm feed systems machines.