How to increase the value of peanut shell?

How do you usually treat peanut shell, throw it away like other rubbish? Normally we treat it that way, and today, we will tell you a new way of turning rubbish into treasure. Nowadays, people start to pay more attention to the environmental protection because of global warming and air pollution. To reduce air pollution, biomass fuel is becoming a popular fuel in the market. You may wonder what is biomass? Where can I find them? Biomass material is common seen in our daily life, it can be grass, sawdust, stalk and other material, as we know, biomass material is easy to find.

About peanut and peanut shell

Peanut is a kind of nuts which is rich in protein, fat, saccharid, vitamin A, vitamin B6, vitamin E, vitamin K and other nutritional ingredient. Peanut can be processed into many kinds of food. As we can seen that peanut is a healthy food and has various benefits for people.

We all know that peanut grows in peanut shell, peanut shell is always useless for most people. However, peanut shell also has many usage, peanut shell also contains a lot of nutritional ingredient, like fat, starch, fibrin, mineral substance and vitamin, etc. We can use peanut as feed, medicine, fuel and so on. Today, we will introduce you how to turn peanut shell into fuel.

Peanut shell pellet as fuel which is different from coal or petroleum fuel, is a kind of energy efficient and environmental friendly biomass fuel. Peanut shell pellets can be used for home heating, cooking, industry boiler and other area. There are more and more people choose to use peanut shell pellet because of it’s convenient and high firepower. 

Application and advantages of peanut shell pellet

Application:

Peanut shell pellet is wildly used in our daily life. They can be used for household heating, home cooking. Because the pellet is easy to store and transport, you can store some at home for long term use.

Peanut shell pellet can also be used in industry stoves, boiler. In one way, peanut shell pellet can take the place of coal, gas and petroleum. Peanut shell pellet is more environmental friendly. Because peanut shell does not contain corrosion element, use peanut shell pellet can extend the service life of the industry stove.    

Advantages of peanut shell pellet:

• Small in size. The shape of peanut shell is cylindrical and it has the smooth surface, peanut shell pellet is easy to store and transport.
• Heat value. Peanut shell pellet has large densities. When we burn the peanut shell pellet, the central temperature of the pellet can reach 1100 degree. Heat value can reach 3700 ~ 4000 kcal/kg.
• Less ash. The ash content is less than 8%. compare to coal and oil, the peanut shell pellet has it’s own advantage.
• Environmental protection. Use the peanut shell pellet fuel can reduce environment pollution. When burning the pellet, ash discharge concentration is less than 40 mg / m3. So use the pellet fuel can improve air quality and avoid greenhouse effect.

How can we make peanut shell pellet?

From the characteristic of peanut shell pellet, we can see that peanut shell pellet has so much advantage for our life, but how to get the peanut shell pellet, and what machines should we use?

•     Heap up raw material. Peanut shell pellet mainly use the peanut shell to be raw material. In order not to affect the production, it had better to prepare enough raw material.
•     Screening. To improve the peanut shell pellet quality, you should take the the raw material into the screening machine to screen out the impurity.
•     Drying. Peanut shell pellet production is very strict with the water content of raw material. After screening, transport the the peanut shell into the dryer and use the hot wind to dry it.
•     Making pellet.  Pellet mill is the key equipment for the production, such a equipment can use various raw material to make pellet fuel, such as peanut shell, saw dust, corn stalk, etc.
•     Cooling. The hot peanut shell pellet are easily broken, so after the pellet out from the pellet mill, should take them into the cooling system. Until the peanut shell pellet have the normal temperature can bag them and be put in storage.