Wood Pellet Production Line in Romania

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overview

This is a wood pellet production line in Romania project. Under the sweeping wave of green energy in Europe, Romania is gradually accelerating the implementation of renewable energy projects, especially in the western part of the country.

Some local enterprises with advantages in raw material resources are accelerating the diversified transformation of energy structure by investing in biomass pellet production lines.

This case describes how a forestry processing enterprise owner in western Romania, facing the dual drive of energy transformation and market opportunities, built the 2t/h wood pellet production line in Romania project with the best configuration and the strongest performance in the region.

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Project Background: From Resource Advantage to Energy Transformation

The client is an enterprise owner who has been engaged in wood processing and primary wood product exports for a long time. His factory is located in an area with a high forest coverage rate in western Romania. For many years, the factory has accumulated a large amount of scraps such as sawdust, shavings and wood chips every month.

Due to the lack of effective utilization methods, these wood processing residues can only be processed at a low price or even incinerated, which is a waste of resources and does not comply with environmental protection policies.

As the Romanian government gradually introduces incentive policies for renewable energy projects, customers are keenly aware that the demand for wood pellets as a clean biomass fuel in the domestic and foreign markets is growing, especially the export market’s requirements for high-quality wood pellets are also increasing.

On October 30, 2023, the customer formally sent us a consultation, proposing to build a 1t/h and a 2t/h wood biomass pellet production line in Romania, and requiring transportation, on-site commissioning and detailed equipment configuration plans.

After two rounds of technical and business exchanges, the customer finally signed a contract with us worth US$340,210 on December 29, 2023 to build a high-end horizontal wood pellet mill line with a capacity of 2t/h.

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Process flow for wood pellet production line in Romania

The wood pellet production line in Romania project adopts a classic horizontal layout structure, from feeding, crushing, drying, mixing, pelletizing, cooling, screening to packaging, to achieve continuous, stable and efficient pellet fuel production.

Unlike traditional processes, the customer specially added a mixing system. This configuration greatly improves the flexibility of adjusting the ratio of different wood raw materials, and ultimately ensures the uniformity of pellet forming and combustion performance.

The overall wood pellet production line process is as follows:

Raw material crushing → drying → mixing → pelletizing → cooling → screening → packaging

The customer’s raw materials are hardwood and softwood chips ranging from 30-50mm, which are sent to the rotary dryer after passing through the front-end crushing system to further reduce the moisture content. The mixing system can adjust the softwood and hardwood mixing ratio according to the actual ratio to meet the different particle density and calorific value requirements.

In the pelletizing process, the main machine uses the MZLH520 wood pellet machine, whose stability and production capacity have been verified in many European projects. After the pellets are formed, they can be directly stored or loaded for export after cooling, screening and automatic packaging.

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Compatible pellet types

Although the wood pellet production line in Romania is mainly used for processing wood pellets, the customer has reserved room for adaptability expansion in process and equipment design. By replacing some parts or adjusting the mold, the line can also process the following types of biomass pellets:

Crop straw pellets such as rice husks and wheat straw

Plant fiber pellets such as bamboo powder and bamboo chips

Fruit shell (such as walnut shells and olive shells) pellets

Mixed organic fuel pellets

This flexible adaptability lays a solid foundation for customers to expand their product range and respond to different market demands in the future.

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equipment configuration for wood pellet production line in Romania

The key equipment equipped in this wood pellet production line in Romania are as follows, all of which are mid-to-high-end configurations of our company’s mature product line and have excellent operating performance:

1. Crushing system: drum wood chiper machine + high-efficiency wood pellet hammer mill crusher, ensuring that 30-50mm wood chips are quickly crushed to the particle size required for pelletizing
2. Drying system: drum hot air dryer, equipped with intelligent temperature control system
3. Mixing system: double-axis gravity-free mixer to ensure uniform fusion of different wood types
4. Pelletizing host: MZLH520 ring die wood pellet press machine, stable production capacity, high compression density, good pellet forming
5. Cooling system: countercurrent pellet cooler, high cooling efficiency, finished product is not easy to break
6. Screening system: vibration screening machine, remove powder and non-standard particles
7. Packing system: automatic weighing + packaging all-in-one machine, can achieve 10kg/20kg quantitative packaging

In addition to the above core wood pellet making equipment, the wood pellet production line in Romania project is also equipped with control cabinets, electronic control systems, conveyor belts and dust removal devices to achieve full process automation

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Market prospects: a model project for Romania’s green transformation

As a member of the European Union, Romania has continuously increased policy support and financial subsidies in the field of renewable energy in recent years. In the western region, especially in areas close to rich forest resources, the establishment of wood pellet plants based on forestry residues has become an important path for many companies to transform and upgrade.

In addition, due to Romania’s superior geographical location, the wood pellets produced can not only supply domestic heating, power plant and other markets, but also be conveniently exported to countries with strong energy demand such as Germany, Austria and Italy by land and water. Therefore, this project not only helps customers solve the problem of ineffective utilization of long-term wood waste, but also opens up a stable source of income.

It is worth mentioning that the local government of the project has paid great attention to the wood pellet production line in Romania project, saying that it will become a typical model for the development of green economy, promotion of employment and increase of export earnings in the region.

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Innovative value and long-term significance

Compared with conventional projects, the configuration standard of this 2t/h wood pellet production line in Romania project can be said to be “full”. In particular, the addition of the hybrid system is not only a breakthrough in technology, but also a reflection of the customer’s focus on medium- and long-term diversified operations from the beginning.

More importantly, the customer clearly stated that after the wood pellet production line in Romania is completed, it will serve as a model project for replication and promotion to neighboring countries in the next 10 years. He plans to further establish his own biomass energy brand image in Southeast Europe by gradually expanding production capacity and product categories.

Project summary:

This 2t/h wood pellet production line project in western Romania is not only an efficient use of traditional wood processing by-products, but also an active transformation in line with environmental protection policies and energy market trends.

It is based on stable production capacity, flexible configuration, and efficient technology to build a modern green factory with industrial replication potential. In the context of the country’s vigorous promotion of renewable energy development, this project is undoubtedly of exemplary and promotion value.

If you are also concerned about how to use technology and design to improve pellet production efficiency, this case is worth your in-depth reference.