Turning straw, branches, and fallen leaves into directly usable energy is probably something that many agricultural and forestry people have been looking forward to for a long time. Now, a biomass fuel pellet plant project launched in a Canadian town has turned this wish into a reality.

The customer of this project runs a small biomass fuel company. In the production workshop, the machinery is “rumbling”, and smooth cylinders as long as chalk thick are pouring down the exit of the production equipment and falling into the packaging. bag.

This is the finished product of biomass pellet fuel. People put this fuel into special stoves, and the heating effect is similar to that of coal. The key is that it is also environmentally friendly. This is the fuel for clean heating in rural areas using “coal to biomass”. This clean heating method is also being promoted in many areas where coal-to-electricity and coal-to-gas projects are difficult to cover.

This kind of pellet fuel has a calorific value of 3900 to 4800 kcal per kilogram, and the calorific value after carbonization is 7000 to 8000 kcal per kilogram. Biomass pellet fuel has high purity, almost no other impurities that do not produce heat, and high carbon content, which can greatly reduce fuel costs.

Now, the client company is recycling dead wood into biomass fuel, and is also trying to cooperate with some counties, forestry units, and villages to recycle straw and process it into fuel. If the cooperation goes smoothly, local straw can be recycled and the pressure on local forest and grassland fire prevention will be greatly reduced.

This project covers a total area of ​​about 1,200 square meters, with a total biomass pellet project cost of US$490,000. It will start operation on June 15, 2024. The project mainly produces feed pellets and biomass pellet fuel, with a designed annual output of about 50,000-60,000 tons. The process of this biomass straw pellet plant project is not complicated. Generally speaking, it just crushes and compresses agricultural and forestry waste, waste wooden furniture, wood scraps and other raw materials.

The customer liked this project because it not only caused no pollution, but also effectively utilized agricultural and forestry waste. This project has diverse raw materials and great room for development. With the continuous expansion of forest area and total forest and grass resources, the combustible materials under the forest have also increased significantly. What many people consider a fire hazard is an available raw material for this project.

At present, the annual output of biomass pellet fuel in this biomass pellet production line project is less than 20,000 tons. It is expected to reach an annual output of 60,000 tons after gradually increasing production capacity this year and next year. Now, the client company has received a lot of market orders and has no worries about product sales. This year, not only large local industrial enterprises have signed orders with customer companies, but some local processing companies have also had in-depth cooperation with customer companies.

In short, as a renewable energy biomass pellet fuel, this industry can not only supplement the shortage of conventional energy, but also have the ecological benefit of “turning waste into treasure”. Compared with other biomass energy technologies, this technology is easier to achieve large-scale application, and the future is promising.