How to press pellets with wood materials at home?

Pellet fuels are new, clean and renewable energy sources, wood pellets are the most common type of pellet fuels that can be used in fireplace, household stove and industrial boiler. Compared to coal and kerosene, the pellets have higher combustion efficiency and discharge less harmful gas when burning. Moreover, the raw materials of wood pellets are cheap and relatively easy to get, they include mainly wastes or residues from furniture factory, wood processing factory or sawmill, such as logs, waste wood chips, waste pieces, tree branches, sawdust, wood shaving etc. Now, pellet fuels are more and more popular, and many people want to learn how to press pellets with wood materials at home.

So how wood materials can be pressed into pellets?

Firstly, you need to have a device that is specially used to press wood pellets, because it is necessary. Generally the device is a flat die pellet press, which is especially suitable for farm household or individual processing enterprise.

Secondly, the size of flat die usually is about 2.5-10mm. In order to get into the die of the pellet press, the wood materials used in the process must be broken to a minimum. You can choose a hammer mill to finish grinding. If your wood materials are just like sawdust, you can skip the step.

Thirdly, you should know that the humidity of wood materials is also very important to press pellets. So before pressing pellets, the broken materials need to be dried or humidified. What’s more, if you want to press homogeneous pellets, a mixing feeder can help you.

Last but not least, transfer the prepared wood materials to pellet press, the relative movement of the roller and the flat die can clamp and compact the materials into the holes of die, and then form the pellets through cutting. When the finished pellets leave the pellet press, they are very hot and also have water vapor. Therefore they must be cooled and dried, the most common method is natural air drying, sometimes using their blowers or fans. But you need to prevent pellets drying too quickly and cracking. Then the pellets are sealed in plastic bags.

The choice of pellet press

We recommend GEMCO wood pellet press, because it has the following advantages.

• Reasonable structure, easy operation, small in size and light in weight, so GEMCO wood pellet press is easy to move and convenient to use.
• High output, low energy consumption, low noise, low failure rate, strong fatigue resistance, continuous production, economic and durable.
• The device adopts special high-quality materials, the roller and flat dies are made of high quality alloy steel and wear resistant materials, prolonging the service life of GEMCO pellet press.
• More than anything, the pressed pellets have high granulation rate, beautiful appearance and compact structure. GEMCO wood pellet press is applicable not only to wood materials but also to other biomass raw materials, including straw, chaff, etc.

Support machines and small mobile pellet plant

Your wood materials can not be directly pressed into pellets？Don’t worry! GEMCO can also supplies support machines for you, such as hammer mill and conveyor. Certainly, you can choose a small mobile pellet plant, which is a complete pellet production line and suitable to press pellets at home.

GEMCO has our own designers to provide you with customized professional designs according to your requirements. If you want to press pellets with wood materials at home, please keep free to contact with us, we will give you a satisfactory solution.