Saw Mill's Power Plant - Wood Energy Odenwald
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- The Odenwald Wood Energy Company (Holzenergie Odenwald, HEO) in Grasellenbach (county of Bergstraße) is a merger of six sawmills from the area. Together they market their wood off-cuts and by-products. The company was founded in 2004 and its headquarters are located at the "Monnheimer" Saw Mill. Wood pellets are HEO's most important product making up 70% of its sales. HEO also delivers wood chips to schools and produces wood briquettes for wood stoves and fireplaces.
Easy to transport and store, wood pellets are a form of bioenergy that is usable in any private home. Not much different from heating oil, they are delivered to the customer by a tank wagon. Due to their high energy density, a homeowner will get along with one or two deliveries a year. Pellets are an inexpensive fuel. In 2010, their energy was 40% cheaper compared to heating oil.
Unlike split logs or wood chips, wood pellets are a highly processed energy product. They are a by-product of sawmilling and are made from sawdust and wood shavings. The drying and the pressing of the pellets are procedures that require an energy input. About 140 KWh of electricity is needed to press one ton of wood pellets. That amounts to about 3% of their energy content. The energy needed to dry damp wood shavings and saw dust is supplied by low-grade wood, which has almost no other use and doesn't qualify for pellet production. Besides, the boiler not only produces energy for drying, but also electricity. Drying sawdust could therefore be seen as an energy transfer from low-grade scrap wood into high-grade pellets.
In addition to deliveries in tank wagons, pellets are also offered in small quantities. They can be packed into sacks and sold to private homeowners who run a wood pellet stove. Pellets have beneficial burning properties and low emission levels because they are free of bark, very dry and energy dense.
This is amazing! I love seeing how they manage to use all the parts of a tree in Germany! Here in Canada some mills are making the power to power their mills with some of the wastewood to power the whole operation. There is a very large mill in Alberta that is like this but they push the system so much further since it is a much larger operation so they are milling wood, making pluwood, OSB, particleboard, barkmulch, electricity, heat for kilns... it is phenominal to see! I love seeing all the parts of waste being used to such amazing advantage! Long live sustainable forestry!
The pellet consuption takes the saw dust of the market. Instead of burning side product saw dust in the large boilers and CHP plants they buy wood chips. This way pellet market helps the wood chips market.
I wasn’t expecting to see a combination of laser sighting and a reciprocating saw.
Hmm! Awesome video showcasing wood pellet green energy in Germany :) Thank you.
Hauling in NZ .
ua-cam.com/video/g-BnwyBK5Hk/v-deo.html .Classic Chip trucking. 39 tons
ua-cam.com/video/KGJTw07yRFg/v-deo.html .2020 chip haulage. 57 tons.
ua-cam.com/video/JdLKtv0c_pY/v-deo.html .. highway haulage..50 tons
ua-cam.com/video/qQ6oPqtbRqI/v-deo.html . NZ-Timber trucks 150 tons
that truck blowing in the pellets is cool here we just buy pallets of bags
Brainmalfuction Yep, I thought the same, very smart solution :)
Germany is awesome!
good video
Very nice production.
a very well done video.
amazing video thanks you
were those logs Douglas Fir ? I was a Sawmill General Manager till I retired in 2013 .We also produce wood chip from the waste like off cut and reject portion after grading
I doubt it's d fir but a close relative
we sure could use that in NY State...
Hergestellt in Deutschland, in Deutschland verkauft an deutsche Kunden und von einem Bundesministerium gefördert. Erläutert in Englisch. Interessant 🤔
Yes, very strange. Because only german speakers watch videos uploaded from Germany. 😒
thats pretty awesome
Any economic comparison between fuel oil and biomass?
Excellent 👍🏻👌🏻
You sir have an awesome accent.
i think he s german
@@juschu Hauling in NZ .
ua-cam.com/video/g-BnwyBK5Hk/v-deo.html .Classic Chip trucking. 39 tons
ua-cam.com/video/KGJTw07yRFg/v-deo.html .2020 chip haulage. 57 tons.
ua-cam.com/video/JdLKtv0c_pY/v-deo.html .. highway haulage..50 tons
ua-cam.com/video/qQ6oPqtbRqI/v-deo.html . NZ-Timber trucks 150 tons
Pellet Öfen schön und gut aber niemand spricht über das größte manko und das ist die Wartung die jedesmal einiges kostet. Aus diesem grund haben wir damals die öl brenner wieder gewählt. Ständig muss man die pellet brenner und das System allgemein reinigen und warten. Und das teilweise bis zu 5mal je nach pellet Qualität im jahr und das kostet jedesmal den Fachmann und das kostet richtig Geld jedesmal. Wenn man alles zusammen rechnet ist öl immernoch am billigsten. Das gleiche gilt für holz und kohle öfen usw.
Oil and gas may be cheaper but wood is locally produced. You are not subjected to Putin or Arabian dictator's whim.
Doesn't the burning of the wood contributes to air pollution?
yes, but during the tree's lifespan it has "sucked in" co2(which is released when burning) so it does not contribute to more pollution.
miikitzz In fact, burning wood actually produces less pollution than by letting it sit and rot. Rotting plant matter produces methane, which is much worse than co2.
true
yes it does. Europeans are the biggest hypocrite's on earth.
When burned wood is carbon neutral which means that it produces the same amount or less carbon than what the tree breathed in its life time
- Haha... I remember back in the 70's when "acid rain" was going to kill all the forests across the world... good thing they were wrong or, you'd be freezing your asses off now....
Acid rain didn't kill all the forests because people MUCH SMARTER THAN YOU implemented pollution reduction measures. Like SO3 traps in industrial chimneys, alternative sources of power with less sulfur content, etc.