wood PELLET - How It's Made! [factory and machines tour]
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
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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.
Stay focused and enjoy!
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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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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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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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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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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Amazing video. You remind me of a university professor during lecture, confident in your knowledge and very informative and detailed
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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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Thank you. I have used pellets for heating many years now. This was very interesting.
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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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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!
Your factory looks like one of those safety videos, where they show what types of environments cause flash fires and explosions.
Excellent job with how the pellets are made. Thank you!
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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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Your father should be proud. He raised a good son.
Thank you very much, my friend. This is the first cmment of this kind. Me and my dad are really happy for what you said, thank you!
@@profilo_is_back I had my first son a few years ago. It changed how I see my own father. Wish you both the best and many years of happiness to come.
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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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 explaining how they are compressed, i always wondered how it was done.
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WOW!!!! Congratulations!! Thank you from Brazil !!!
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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.
Molto interessante, grazie per mostrarci il processo di produzione dei pellet.
Great video! answered all my questions, Thanks.
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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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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 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.
Really informative, thank you for the vid and the great internal videoshots.
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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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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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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 RUclips account in the near future I would prefer interchanging by email at beeline@abcmailbox.net.
Thanks in advance.
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Glad that you liked the video and found it interesting.
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.
I just bought a pellet grill Thank You for this video explaining how the pellets are made.
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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
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 well done, inspires confidence in your products
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I never met a wood pellet connoisseur ;)
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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.
so much energy used to produce renewable heating. well produced video and interesting
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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
Excellent video, very informative and great pace of presentation. Well done and thank you for the insight.
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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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Well done indeed!
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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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Very good explanation of the process!
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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...
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!
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Thank you for the detailed narration. Well done!
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Fantastic explanation. I enjoyed seeing this very much.
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Excellent 'How its made' video, thank you for the insight, its fascinating!
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Hi Gary from the UK here grate video very interesting and informative keep them coming
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a good informative video. i always wondered how pellets were made.thanks
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Thank you. Very informative and clearly presented.
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thankyou,,,nice ,,,,great learning....you talk strait to the point,,,,not many youtube do that,,,they go into stupid details...really great teacher you are.....
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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.
Very good video and very good explained! Thank you!
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WOW ! you do an excellent job of explaining the process. (you should choose a career in education). Could you do another video, showing other "waste products" like lawn clippings, etc. to see what kind of pellets they would produce. maybe ask for suggestions on other things to "pelletize". (just small amounts for "proof of concept) you could even show how well they burn compared to the wood.
HI! Thank you for the intervention, this is a really good comment! First of thank you for the kudos, I'm really glad that you noticed the passion for explaining and telling things. The education career was one of the option, you really got the point into.
About the techincal part of the comment. Thank you for the advices, I realy like the idea about trying to pelletize other materials. I have some idea now, I think I'll try an interesting material in the next week. SO, stay tuned, hope you'll appreciate one of the next video, you'll know it comes from your comment!
I really like the idea of R&R, simple 'proof of concept', that's good. DO you have idea on how to evaluate the 'burning comparison'? I'm rapidly thinking about heating the same room with different materials, evaluating the heating time, the amount of material needed, the temperature....do you have other advices, maybe?
great video, very educational. Thanks
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thank you for such a detailed video
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Really cool 😎 watching it make pellets
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An excellent great video for description of making pellets. Thank you.
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Thank you for showing us it is very interestinng
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You say it's "your dad's work" but i bet you're the bossman😂
Thanks for sharing. Very interesting and very thorough video - well done
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this is very interesting. I work in a small cabinet shop, and it drives me crazy to see our scraps going to the landfill.
Hi! Thank you for the commnet! I totally understand you...in fact, we don't really use (for personal use) high-quality wood. I really prefer low-quality, because I don't want to waste anything if we tal about burning. We do waste so much material....and we have to remember that also branches and sawdust is ok for burning. You don't really need hig-quality wood. Bye!
Sell them as "camp fire wood" to a distributor or by yourself.
A plant I worked at used wood fibers made from furniture manufacturing scraps (hardwoods)...the wood scraps were pulverized using a hammer mill.
I totally understand your concern...I hate seeing wasteful practices /habits.
I'm betting there's some sort of market for those scraps (hobby wood comes to mind).
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hey - I agree. I could take it from you, depending on how much you produce. We can filter it as mulch if no metal. Sounds like you could have good product so I could probably use it if that is of interest
Very good information, this is better if you show the complete production system running. Thank you.
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Sold in Italy they know extrusion .
Just as they do in Austria.
I prefer pecan flavor and also cherry and Apple.
Nice video. Thanks for showing the process. 👍✝🙂
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Hi there! Is it possible to buy wood pellets from your factory?
Hi! Thank you for the comment! Unfortunately we do not sell online...it is a very small production for the local region. ANyway, thank you for the interest!
love it, I really like industrial processes. I guess I am weird.
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This is cool very small scale I work at a pellet plant we have 4 mills that produce 42 to 45 ton a piece in 12 hrs
Hi! Thank you for the comment! Wow, these are astonishing number for our proudction! We cannot do that neither in one year. I really like this comparison ahhaha. Hope that you still found interesting our plant. Is the overall process quite the same? What are the main differences? Thank you!
@@profilo_is_back nothing really it's the same process we are just way bigger scale like our pellet mill have 3 rolls that weigh 105 lbs a piece and our die weighs about 375 400lbs and have 2,200 extrusion holes for pellets
VERY interesting and well presented! Thanks
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thanks you very much , it is evrything i need.
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Thanks a lot, very informative!! Greetings from Denmark
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This video wouldn't be so bad if they went through and showed step by step what happened and he gave an audio commentary to this at the same time instead of having just about half of the video being posted on him just talking and not much being shown I found myself fast forwarding through 90% of the video because it's just him I mean come on
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Fascinating!
Good demo and details. Gratzi
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thank you , this was very cool video
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Beautiful machine
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I have 15 kwh Pellet mill model name: ZFPM260-p with a die of 8 millimeters and triple rollers. Chinese made unfortunately because cant find any European ones. (broke the axle today only after 30 hours of use). I use cutter swarf (100% wood material and 0% tree bark) that I break further down to about 3 millimeter sizes that then goes into a mixer where I add flours in it about 2 kilos for about 50 kilos of raw material (Flour which contains starch around 70% that apparently should help increase the pelleting feeding rate and hardness because the natural amount of lignin in the material is not working properly (or so I suspect) but they still have varying sized cracks in them) and after taking several moisture tests from the mixed material the moisture ranges around 11-14%, average around 13%, and no higher than 15% (Manual said operating range for making pellets is around 10-18%) although theres oddly much water vapor coming out of the pelleting process (but I guess its normal even for such dry material?)
Also do you use certifications for your pellets or do you just sell them in unmarked bags?
Hello, I am the Jonathan Showalter that has posted to Profilo several times in the past several months.
I found you post interesting and perhaps I can be of some help to you and anyone else who are looking for reliable and economic pelletizing solutions. (Not to take away from Filippo's input, though.)
I have been interchanging with Filippo by email over the past several months, but right now, if I understand right, he is on a business trip and it might be a while before he gets back and interchanges again both on RUclips and by email with me. I am seriously considering building a mill like his dad has and might be able to market it to a few other interested people. I have done some research including a visit to the original manufacturer in Italy and discovered that they are no longer making that mill and no one else is either. There is another Italian company that is making something similar, but not the output. I consider this mill to have some advantages that encourages me to try to bring something like it back into existence. I am hoping to continue my interchange with Filippo enough in the near future to get more information about design so that I can build one here. If there is interest in a mill like this from anyone paying attention to this RUclips string, let me know.
I am pelletizing kiln dried white pine here at our beekeeping equipment manufacturing factory in Michigan, USA and it sounds like you are doing a similar thing. I am using a 12 inch flat die mill made here in the states. If you have a Chinese machine, it is probably also a flat die mill and so our experiences are probably similar. Filippo's dad's machine is a ring die mill and has quite different and, I think, better results for pelletizing wood.
You indicated 8 millimeters. I suppose that is the size of holes in the die plate. Usually about 6 millimeters (1/4 inch) is the recommended hole size for pelletizing wood. Something larger will probably not compact the wood enough to get the heat that is needed to melt the lignin and keep the pellet together. I am wondering if that might be your problem. You should not need to use any other starches or binding agents. Moisture is a big issue and it seems you have that about right.
Because of the difference of speed that the rollers of a flat die mill need to travel next to the drive shaft and the speed away from the shaft, it does not work well with wood. Some part, usually the outside of the rollers will be slipping on the die plate and further grind your material, making it very difficult to push through the die plate (if the hole size is correct.) The ring die mills, like Filippo's dad's mill, do not have this problem. That is one of the reasons for my serious efforts to try to get this mill back into availability.
Big pelletizing companies also use ring die mills but the ring die is turned the other way. The ring rotates around the mechanism that holds the rollers is stationary. They are almost aways high capacity mills that require a lot of power. The mill that Filippo shows in this video appears to be a very reliable, low energy consumption, fairly high output mill for the smaller factories. I see it having a lot of potential.
Also the die plates on flat die mills like mine are pretty expensive, the rollers and their bearings are also expensive and do not last as long as they should in relation to their cost. The mill in this video appears to have a pretty durable, simple ring and very economic, easily replaced rollers and bearings.
We will see where this will go. Maybe others would have input on such a project.
For now,
Jonathan
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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?
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When I moved to Florida I brought the pellet heater with me . Glad I did ! But trying to find hard wood pellets proved to be impossible 1 This is central Florida of coarse . I remembered a guy up north told me if you can't find stove pellets ? Use horse bedding pellets in a pinch ! So that's what I use down here ! Hey they work and heater isn't picky about them ether !
You can also use corn. But I bet you can't find that in florida either.
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Actually, just use whole corn kernels, no need too pelletize them. I haven't tried it, but I've heard it works.
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Great Video...Thanks.
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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 ruclips.net/video/_UsDvLMjICs/видео.html and wood chipping process ruclips.net/video/r-_DH0HxDSE/видео.html )
Nice to see this but fire must be a great risk with all the dust around!☘️👍
Hi! Sorry for the late response...thanks for the comment. Yeah, I know, it is quite a great risk. We try to pay as much attention as possible...
Raise the height of the machine to aid worker comfort (and productivity).
Hi! Thank you for the comment and for the advice. Unfortunately it is not that easy to change the machines configuration in the plant. The ring-die is easily accessible, I think it's ok for the operator to work on it. What machine were you talking about?
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Great explanation, thank you.
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How often are the machines wiped down of sawdust?
Hi! Thank you for the comment! Well, actually not that much frequently. I know its not a safe situation, but there is a lot of powder, and it continuously accumulates on the machines...we cannot handle it.
Thank you !🙂
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Great video. Thank you.
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Great video. Very interesting and informative. Thank you! Cheers.
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