How to Choose Commercial Wood Pellet Mill

Commercial wood pellet mill is different from small pellet mill for household. Some people purchase pellet mill for home or farm, they make their lawn grass, yard waste or farm waste into pellets for home heating. However, wood pellet mill can not only be used to make pellet for home, but also for business. Large wood pellet mill can be used to make tons of wood pellets per day, and the wood pellet production line can produce pellets that come out in packages, which are convenient for storage and transportation.

GEMCO, as a leading biomass pellet machine manufacturer in China, has designed and set complete wood pellet line for many countries, such as 6ton/h wood pellet line in Vietnam, 500kh/h complete wood pellet plant in Italy, 2t/h wood pellet plant in Slovakia etc.

Wood pellets market

Before choosing large wood pellet plant or complete wood pellet line, we should know the market prospect of wood pellets. Wood pellets is known by the world as an clean, zero emission and environment friendly renewable energy. Most of the countries in Europe and America use pellets instead of fossil fuels for heating and power generating. Thus, in fact, pellets are of the vast demand. Some longstanding pellets maker in Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America are rolling in money with their almost free raw materials and thriving European market. So, how to choose a pellet mill for your new start business? Here we are going to give you some tips.

Wood pellet production line structure

Wood is hard and not easy to process, so there are a few working procedure that can not be left out.

• First, the raw material such as the log, bark or wood shavings should be cut into small pieces by a wood chipper.
• Then, the small wood chips should be dried. The moisture of the material should be kept in 10-18% for making quality pellets. To adjust the moisture, a dryer is necessary. For large-scale production, the drum dryer is a good choice while the airflow dryer are more suitable for small scale wood pellets production.
• The dried wood chips should be screened by an integrated cooling screen for pellets. Dust and hard objects should be screened out.
• After the initial sieving, the size of raw materials should be reduced one more time. A hammer mill is necessary in this procedure. The wood chip will be crushed into wood powder for the following process.
• After the steps above, the materials are ready for pelletizing. The materials will be put into a series of flat-die pellet mills or ring-die pellet mills. If the business is small, flat-die pellet mill is cost-effective. If the yield is especially big, ring-die pellet mill is your best choice.
• The pellets are hot when they come out from the wood pellet mill. Hot pellets are easy to broke and surfaces are usually not so smooth. So we need a counterflow cooler to cool the pellets and in this way, the pellets can be kept in good shape.
• At last, the pellets should be packed for storage and transportation. Therefore, you may need a pellet packing machine. Pellet packing machine also has different model. And the different model should be decided by the quantity of each package.

What we offer

GEMCO has been designed and manufactured biomass pellet mills and plants for over decade. Our products are all certificated with CE and ISO: 9001. And our patented pellet mill spare parts are also popular around the world.

For commercial pellet mill, we can customize the whole wood pellet production line according to the site and the power source of the clients. And we can send special staff to train your team. We offer turnkey project for your wood pellet business. While, at the same time, we provide quality world-standard wood pellet mill and large wood pellet plant for you to choose.

Choose wood pellet mill, please contact GEMCO, leave us messages for quotation and details. We are happy to give you free consultation no matter you purchase our machines or not. Thanks.