Monday, May 17, 2010

What Are Wood Pellets And Our Future Fuel Demands?

By Christopher Scott

Wood Pellets are a unknown to many people, and a fuel source some people use every day, but what are wood pellets. Well, to put it simply wood pellets are a compressed form of a variety of woody bio-products from timber processing.

How to make wood pellets is an area of expertise and knowledge that more people wish to learn, to produce their own pellets for home use, or to start a business. You need the right equipment and skills to make quality pellets, and each is as important as the other.

The type of sawdust that can be used to make wood pellets is quite general, for example it could be softwood or hardwood in origin, and some wood pellets are a mixture of the two. Different types of wood do burn differently, and produce different levels of ash content.

Once the type and grade of wood pellet fuel has been chosen, you must then decide how you will use these wood pellets to generate the heat you require. This firstly depends on the size of your heating requirements. For smaller spaces a wood pellet stove can be used.

If you have an existing central heating system, or under floor heating, a wood pellet boiler maybe more suitable for your requirements. A wood pellet boiler operates in the same way as a gas or oil boiler. However using wood pellets can save a lot of money each year.

So what are the comprises to using wood pellets compared to keeping on with oil and gas as your source of heat. Well firstly is the cost, using wood pellets to heat your home of business can save you thousands of dollars each year. And despite what you may think, using wood pellets does not require a lot of work. Wood pellets produce very little ash, and you may only have to clean the pellet burner once a week or month.

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