How Do You Make Wood Pellets For Yourself Or To Sell?
Part of what is fueling a recent increase in interest in pellet heat is more people are learning how to make wood pellets on a small scale. We can show you how wood pellets are made and how you can get started making them yourself. Pellets are simply wood or any other biomass that is compressed into a dense pellet form. Pellets can be made from just about any fibrous biomass including grasses, grains and other agricultural wastes. The process is basically the same for making pellets out of any biomass but we will use wood as the example in this article. First you start with raw material like sawdust. Larger pieces of wood will have to be broken down using either a chipper or a hammer mill and sometimes both. Typical wood chips are too big so a hammer mill is often used to break them down more. In order for the pelletizing process to work properly the wood must be dried but still needs to have some moisture. Depending on the material being used 10-20% moisture content is about right. If
