Wood Pellet Maker Information

Due to the growth of biomass pellets market and pellet maker market, more and more families and companies get interested in pellet maker business especially wood pellet maker. But many of us may purchase the wrong pellet makers because of knowing little of pellet production. For example, most pellet makers sold on the internet are actually designed for making feed pellets, are not really designed from processing wood into pellet form.

Pellet makers were originally produced for making fertilizer pellets or animal feed pellets. Biomass pellets as fuel came along much later. Unlike wood pellet maker, feed pellet maker is designed to pelletizing low density, soft material. However wood fiber is a much more difficult material to compress into pellet form due to its density.

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To be able to produce quality wood pellets, the pellet maker needs more power and more heat than a standard animal feed pellet maker has. For example on large scale wood pellet production dry steam conditioners are used to raise the temperature of the wood fibre to over 100 degrees to melt the natural wood lignin to bind the pellet together and reduce load on the pellet maker. Also most wood pellet makers have a double hear reduction gearbox installed to give the low speed torque required to process wood. The other problem is there is a lot of miss-selling on the internet, with re-sellers claiming pellet maker is wood pellet maker when they are animal feed pellet maker. Therefore you do have to be careful when buying online. It's best to do your research before trying to buy a pellet press.