wood PELLET - How It's Made! [factory and machines tour]
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- Опубліковано 29 січ 2022
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In this video I'm gonna show you all the details and curios aspects about pellet production flow, from the raw wood to the pellet transformation, together with intermediate transformations such as shregging, millin, drying and bagging.
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This was a wonderfully done video on this process! Thank you for sharing your family business with all of us, I learned a lot about how our pellets are made.
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I grow mushrooms as a hobby, and one of the advantage of wood pellets vs other wood-based mediums, is the fact it has less pathogens that could contaminate your batch, because of the high temperatures reaching during pelletization due to the extremely high pressures. I was always a bit doubtful of that claim, but seeing the vapor coming off the pellet dye is really something, and definitely clears up any doubts I had! Thanks for the video, always interesting to see how stuff gets made.
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This is a very good video, thank you for taking the time to explain this process. Great Job!
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nice video intersting process
Thank you for great video explaining your process. I have been burning wood pellets at my home since 2006 but the price has gone through the roof here in the UK in the last 10 months from £0.30p per Kg to £0.60p yes 100% increase and that’s from a local producer to me here in northeast of Scotland if you want the 20kg bags delivered that is an additional cost. So I am looking to buy a very small scale pellet mill and produce my own from saw dust mostly
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Outstanding video! In my career I’ve toured many plants and operations. Your virtual tour was excellent, thx vm.
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What a great video! Thank you. My girl friend and I were discussing this process this week. Answered all our questions.
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This has got to be the best most intuitive video I've seen about pellets ... there really is no need for anybody else... great job!!!
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Best explanation about pellet production ever. Thank you very much
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Fantastic tour! An interesting process explained very well!
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I was curious about learning how pellets are made and this was very interesting. I enjoyed all the details of the process. Thanks for this good content and taking your time to explain it so well.
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Thank you. I have used pellets for heating many years now. This was very interesting.
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WOW!!!! Congratulations!! Thank you from Brazil !!!
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Really informative, thank you for the vid and the great internal videoshots.
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Amazing video. You remind me of a university professor during lecture, confident in your knowledge and very informative and detailed
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Great video! answered all my questions, Thanks.
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I think this video made me an expert on wood pellet making😄😄😃 It is very informative, thank you.
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Excellent 'How its made' video, thank you for the insight, its fascinating!
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Excellent video, very informative and great pace of presentation. Well done and thank you for the insight.
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Worked 23 years in a pellet mill. We did 150 ton daily and had automated packaging and robot stacking. Interesting to see this small scale operation
Hi! Thank you for the comment! WOW, that's outstanding! We cannot even imagine these quantities. We do have margin for selling things, bot for many other reasons we are not going to scale up the production. You are right, interesting to see the comparison between these industrial realities. Is the process almost the same? Wich are the main differences? How is/are mill/mills in a fabric like the one you worked in?
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Outstanding Video! Thank you, and your family, for spending the time to show us all what happens and why. Many others have said the same thing in comments here, but that would not stop me from repeating the truth - great job!
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Excellent job with how the pellets are made. Thank you!
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Molto interessante, grazie per mostrarci il processo di produzione dei pellet.
Very well done, inspires confidence in your products
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I just bought a pellet grill Thank You for this video explaining how the pellets are made.
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That is an interesting extruder. I have not seen one like it. I have adapted a twin screw food extruder to make wood pellets. it used to make breakfast cereal and you can mount various die plates at the end of the barrel. You can also alter the srew configuration to be more or less aggressive so it can do some of the grinding and breakdown work that you use other machinery for. It also has the advantage of having controllable heat zones along the barrel.
Hi! Thank you for the comment! On my side, I'v never seen an adaptation like your one! It seems something very interesting and clever. What kind of production ratios can you reach? Is the twin-screw extruder resistant enough to produce wood pellet? TO handle raw wood, I mean...
Thank you for the detailed narration. Well done!
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An excellent great video for description of making pellets. Thank you.
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Thank you. Very informative and clearly presented.
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Thanks for explaining how they are compressed, i always wondered how it was done.
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Fantastic explanation. I enjoyed seeing this very much.
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Thank you very much for so much details one of the only ones in the world who probably give so precise details
Hi! Thank you for the comment. I' really really happy you appreciate the effort in the explanation....I did my best to be clear, simple and show you all the details of the process.
Very good explanation of the process!
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Very good video and very good explained! Thank you!
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Very well done explanation of the process.
great video, very educational. Thanks
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I worked in a plant that used a large California Pellet Mill (CPM) that rotated a much larger die at much higher speeds - we blended by weight, 30% granulated plastics (LDPE /PP) with hardwood fibers - output from CPM to holding bins. The material was then transported by augers to a 6" extruder having a 30:1 barrel...heating material to molten condition...extrudate then taken in measured by weight amounts to vertical acting compression molding presses (750 tons) to mold final product. The wood fiber content "stiffened" the plastic matrix making for durable molded parts.
Most of the plastics molding machinery were of German manufacture.
Nice to watch this video - and seeing how other people do things in their own way.
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Glad that you have shared all these very interesting details! These numbers are absolutely astonishing, compared to those of our small plant, producing 180/220 kg/h of wood pellet in good working conditions.
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Thanks for sharing. Very interesting and very thorough video - well done
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thank you for such a detailed video
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VERY interesting and well presented! Thanks
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Great video. Very interesting and informative. Thank you! Cheers.
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Nice video. Thanks for showing the process. 👍✝🙂
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Very informative, you are a very good narrator ! Bravo ! I wish you good luck with your business
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Lovely video! If I might add a suggestion, if it's feasible, and when you upgrade the sealing machine, use one that can do vacuum-sealing. Should be possible to get the bags into nice solid bricks, like vacuum-sealed ground coffee. Would both reduce the volume and make them easier to handle.
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Well, it's actually not recommended to vacuum-seal bags. I actually didn't show the detail of the bac, but there are several micro holed reuquired to let the humidity go out. Water inside the bag is not good, because will deteriorate pellet product (I don't know if you have ever tried what happens when you put wood pellet under the water).
This is really important especially in our case, where we procude pellet, sevral decades of minutes, then we immediately seal it. it is still a bit hot, it loses water via vapour (you see it condensate in the internal side o fthe bag), then holes help to lose vapor outside the bag, saving the product.
Your point may be ok in case of factories where the product is completely cooled down, so that you don't have the risk of having it losing water vapor inside the bag.
However, even if you vacuum-seal them, I don't think you would increment that much the 'handleness', let's say. Moreover, remembre that in the majorityo of the cases you have robotic palleting machines, machines will do the dirty job ahaha.
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a good informative video. i always wondered how pellets were made.thanks
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Excellent and informative video !
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very nicely done, thank you.
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Excellent description of making pellets. I heat my house with a pellet stove and love it. Always wondered how the pellets were made. Thanks so much.
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Very interesting , for this process from pellets , small factory but fine production thank you from France
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Well made video. Thanks!
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Fascinating!
I have been burning pellets for 6 or 7 years. I had some idea of how they are made but not a lot about it. I just stumbled on your video and really enjoyed it. I never gave a lot of thought about the natural sugars in the wood to bind the pellets together.
I'm in Maine, USA. Thank you for the education.
Hi! Thank you for the comment! Glad that you liked the video and found it interesting. Yeah, it is fascinating to discover that no glues are used to keep together and compressed wood pellet, all natural substances. We are from Italy, glad to, know we have 'viewers' coming from so far in the world! Share and subscribe, you’ll really help me in spreading out this knowledge! Bye
Actually it is possible to make methanol (alcohol) from the wood. But do not use that alcohol.
Hi Gary from the UK here grate video very interesting and informative keep them coming
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Perfect explanation. Thank you.
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Thanks a lot for the video, it was really interesting
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thank you for sharing your knowledge, I hope your business and family will be more successful, don't forget to come to our country Indonesia, because the raw materials for making wood pellets are very abundant
Very interesting!! Thank you!
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Your factory looks like one of those safety videos, where they show what types of environments cause flash fires and explosions.
Great video thank you sirs
Good demo and details. Gratzi
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Great Video!
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thank you , this was very cool video
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Thank you for showing us it is very interestinng
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Great straight to the point info 👍
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Great explanation, thank you.
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Thanks a lot, very informative!! Greetings from Denmark
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I used to own a small pet grocery line, mostly for pet rabbits, guinea pig. I added wood pellets as bedding material offer, and visited the factory in Durban south Africa. Very similar operation and i was fascinated. I always wanted to buy my own pelletizer to mill my own Teff, Lucerne and Arogrostis feeds, however i had to sell the business before i could further expand. Nevertheless, a pellet machine is an amazing piece of equipment!
Great video. Thank you.
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thanks you very much , it is evrything i need.
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Awesome video!
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I was very glad to run on to this video. You have done an excellent job and in doing so, gave me an answer to our pelletizing problems. Here at Beeline, we are a manufacturer of wooden beehive parts in Southern Michigan, USA. We are turning our white pine wood scraps and sawdust into wood heating pellets with a 12 inch flat die mill that is manufactured here in the US. However, we have had no end of trouble getting good success. It seems that a flat die mill is prone to more pulverization that results in blocking (holes plugging) that results in less production and finally shutting the mill down as result of over-amp draw. It also seems that a flat die mill is especially sensitive to particle size and amounts of moisture. It is just to "tweeky," (hard to get it just right, difficult to get everything just right so that it mills consistently for long periods of time.)
I watched your video with much interest because it seems that a vertical die mill like you have would work a lot better for wood like I am trying to mill. Unfortunately, I have not been able to locate a small vertical ring die mill in the US. There are many large horizontal ring dies but they are to large and expensive for my operation. The one you have is just the right size and capacity.
I found the contact information for the company that makes yours and have written to them with the hope that we could do business. But I would like to interchange with you also. You would have a lot of experience both with the process of turning wood into pellets and with that mill. There is also the possibility that the company in Italy that makes your mill will ignore me. If they do, or say that they are not interested in dealing with someone in the US, maybe I could work through you.
I am definitely interested in purchasing rings and rollers from them to use in a mill that I would build myself. I would prefer, however, to purchase the mill parts from the gearbox up, and then retrofit it onto my mill motor and gearbox. (We have done a lot of fabricating.) I would even be interested in establishing a dealership of their mills here in the States. I think there would be a lot of little shops that would be very interested in an economic, dependable way to turn their scrap into a marketable product.
Can you help me out? Since I will probably terminate my UA-cam account in the near future I would prefer interchanging by email at beeline@abcmailbox.net.
Thanks in advance.
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I want to be sincere, I didn't really know anything about vertical/flat mill comparison. I didn't think there may be a correlation/influence between the geometry of the mill and the effectiveness in pelletizing the wood material.
Anyway, also here in europe you find flat mill of very high power. All those that are smaller are vertical mill like ours.
Yeah, we can get in touch via my email here: profiloisbackontrack@gmail.com
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@@profilo_is_back Thanks for responding. I'll interchange with you about business aspects and other technical matters by email, but for here I will say that you are exactly right. We are running a 30 hp mill with a 12" flat die ( over 400 holes). If the mill is running well I'm drawing about 30 amps and producing about 200 pound per hour. Unfortunately, it runs badly more often than not.
When I say badly, I mean that the outside ring of holes will block (presumably because the material has pulverized to finely) and that, in turn creates more pulverizing that blocks more holes until I'm probably only milling with half the holes. That leads to more material squeezing out from under the rollers and climbing the sides of the mill housing. This continues until it chokes the mill, stalls it, draws too many amps. We have it set up that it will automatically shut down if it does that. I have other things to do and so it might sit there without running for some time till I can go clean it out and restart. Yesterday it happened about six times.
I assume that, with a ring die like yours, there is almost no pulverizing happening and the material is more consistently forced through the holes rather than refusing to do so.
And so I would like to try a different mill. If I understand correctly, you are running a 15 hp motor on the mill and producing higher output with consistent operation. I'd like one of those!
Anyway, expect an email from me in the next couple of days to discuss other aspects of the process and see what we can do to wake up the company that makes them and get something imported.
Thanks for now.
Very nice video!
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Beautiful machine
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Super job, and no stupid music. Thank you.
ahahahhahaa thank you very much for the comment, glad that you liked the video! only pure industrial sounds.
Well done indeed!
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Wow this is a great presentation of the pellet making process. Another pellet making topic I would love to learn more about is the amount of energy required to manufacture pellets. But that might be pretty involved & might be more of a thesis paper for a college student. There is the fossil fuels required to power the trucks that deliver the wood, the fossil fuels used to build the trucks & the machinery used to make the pellets & then the energy needed to power the manufacturing process, make the plastic bags for the pellets, & last but not least the fossil fuels needed for the trucks to deliver the finished product.
Hi! Thank you for the comment! This is a very interesting aspect. I'll tell you what I think about. In terms of transportation, I really don't consider that much this component, becasue wood is locally produced and the final product is locally consumed. The transportation doesn't have a big impact on the final carbon foot print. What impact most are wood transformation (wood chipper 100kW and wood shredder 25kW) and pellet mill (9kW working a lot of hours in the day). yes, it is a process requiring a lot of energy. In the perfect plant it would come from renewable sources, like solar, wind or water. But we do not have the possibility to use them efficiently. I know it is a lot of energy, but I like to see it in that way: you are spending energy to reuse/recover/recycle products that you cannot reuse in any other way. So it is worth of it. What do you think?
@@profilo_is_back My Filipino wife loves how the pellet stove keeps her 75 degrees warm all winter. For me another big plus of heating with wood pellets is I would much rather give a local pellet manufacturer like you my $$$, than oil producing USA unfriendly terrorist supporting countries like Saudi Arabia. But great video, if I were a school teacher in your area I would arrange field trips for the kids to see your facility.
Excellent presentation very clear and informative. I wish I was closer to you so I could buy from you. 👌
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@@profilo_is_back I am in the UK and moving to Portugal soon. I love Italy but too expensive for me at the moment.
our pelletizer (we have 2) ar like bigggg flat die machines and they have a 20 hp motor on them, together they produce half a ton an hour, our hammer mill is like more bigger than yours with a 40 hp motor and I've never seen a crusher like that! our crushers is like a big drum head with giant knives and there is for other big knifes on the outside and it destroys the chips with an incredible amount of force, we were about to sell it cuz it wasn't working until I decided to fix it lol, really great video and explanation!
Hi! Thank you for the comment! I'm glad you fixed it, it seems a very interesting setup, you should too do a video about it! You're talking about much much different power and production with respect to our plant ahahaha. I'm really curios to see such big plants. Go on! Bye!
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thx bro very nice presentation
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Really cool 😎 watching it make pellets
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Thank you very informative.
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Great Video...Thanks.
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Very informative. Thank you.
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thank you for the information
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Nice job! Can someone anser couple of questions please. What did he mix with wood powder and what was the polishing material?
That was awesome
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Woodpellet prices are up about 400% these days. I wish you much success in your business.
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Well, you are right, but don't think we are sailing in gold...also the electricity and all other primary materials have risen up that much. What you can earn from this product is still almost the same.
Who is taking advantage from this situation are those re-selling the product. They buy if still at low-cost prices from east-europe, then they re-sell it at high prices in western europe, where fuel prices have risen up a lot, as you know. This because of the enercetigal crisis, all over the world.
Hope this situation will be solved briefly.
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How often do you do a complete clean up? As dust is highly explosive, this is something that sawmills, grain elevators are very careful about.
Great video I have just put in a wood pellet boiler. It great but the pellets r getting expensive to buy
Hi! Thank you for the comment! Well, you are perfectly right...this is the reason why to warm our house we do not use our pellet, that is a high quality product, made with very good wood. We use instead very low quality material, such as bark and branches all chipped together. We do have a Froling Wood chip and pellet boiler, that burns efficiently even low quality material wood chip. You can find many videos about that in the channel (both Froling wood chip boiler ua-cam.com/video/_UsDvLMjICs/v-deo.html and wood chipping process ua-cam.com/video/r-_DH0HxDSE/v-deo.html )
so much energy used to produce renewable heating. well produced video and interesting
Hi! Thank you for the comment! Glad that you liked the video! Yes, so much, I totally agree. However, as you said, its worth it, because its how recycling wastes works. You spend energy ro give value to something you cannot do anything with, except burning it.
Thanks for a informative video!⭐️ What kind of production rates do you get out of the mill? Kg/h?
Have you ever considered milling sawdust directly instead of crushing wood chips?
Hi Thank you for the comment! this machine, depending on the hardness of the material, goes about 150/180 kg/h. It is a quite small plant. It also depends on the ring die/the compression you want to give to the final product.
Video fantastico, non pensavo di trovare una spiegazione così in dettaglio e non avevo nemmeno capito fossi italiano.
ciao! Grazie per il commento! mi fa molto piacere che il video ti sia piaciuto! Condividilo se ti va. E iscriviti, settimana prossima esco con un altro video sempre riguardo il pellet, abbiamo fatto dei test in cui pellettiamo altro materiale. E inoltre mi aiuteresti molto! Grazie! Ciao
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Your operation is so eco-friendly, I want to purchase some.
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Unfortunately this is a very small scale production...all the pellet is sold and consumed locally. We do not sell online, neither abroad (both EU and extraEU).
Where do you come from?
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It is a good video, good job.
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Thank you for the tour. The amount of powdered wood on every visible surface seems like a high risk of an explosion and/or fire. Is that a problem with other plants ?
Hi! Thank you for the comment! Glad that you liked the video. Well, yes, its a problem. But we cannot do anything about it, the power is always there. Yes, high risk, we always have to pay a lot of attention. For sure there must be higher standars in bigger plants, I've never had the occasion to visit one of them, so I can't give you any other perspective.
Excellent video, thank you for going into so much detail! I do have one question I may, how many tons of pellets can be produced before the die needs to be replaced?
Thanks!
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hi! Thank you for the comment! WEell, it really depends on how much the wood mixture contains soil resduals and small rocks, all elements wearing out the ring die. If it is really dlean (as our case), the one you can see in the video has done more than 250 tons of material. A colleague of us uses a very 'polluted' material, has changed the ring die after 30 tons...very bad as you can imagine. Moreover, you have to consider that even if we are doing more than 250 tons of material, it has weared out, in particular in terms of diameter: it started from 6mm of diameter to 7mm now...but it is ok for the production, so we don't need to change it.
Remember that you have to do maintenantce on it: you have to rectify it, to keep the centering of the rollers into the internal cylinder of the ring. We don't have a measure....you have to look at it depending on the wearing status of both rollers and ring die....when they do wear out tooo much on the boarders, then you have to rectify it. Hope that was clear for you! I'm here to be clear for more questions! Bye!
@@profilo_is_back Yes that is very clear! Thank you very much for taking the time to reply in such detail.
Hi. Thanks for the video... i have a question. I have a small pellet setup
But i manage to get 180kg h, with 22 kw press, some times 120kgh.
If i feed wood chips.the press jams or amps go to 80 way to high. If i feed material like yours wiht 18% i have then around 180kgh, but if i feed dry material 12% it becomes unstable, jams, and amps bounc up n down... way to unstable.
If i try feeding smaler particles the amps also get more stable.
The question is..
How are you able to press dry material? How are you able to get the amps stable what are the things to pay attention?
Hi! Thank you for the comment and sorry for the late response. Well, for sure the ring die is something you have to check. It defined the wood compression, that is related to the power consumption fo your motor. For sure stability of production (amps) and ring die are related. Be sure that the ring die is in good shape. We periodically check it and, if required, we rectifie it. Finally, in case you have too dry material, you can think of adding a bit of water. I remember this problem few years ago. We bought a water spayer injecting humidity into the mixture (for sure do not add water in 'liquid' mode...use a sprayer/vaporizer). Can't you use 15-20% humid material? Why is yours so dry? Maybe you can also think of adding non-dried material to your final mixture, to reach the desired value.
Congrats for the explain. I looking for informations to install a small factory in Brazil, in a city on south of brazil. thanks for the informations.
Hi! Thank you! I really appreciate the support! Happy to hear that you liked the explanation, hope you can proceed well with your work.