Straw Pellet Mill

What Are Straw Pellets?

Before talk about straw pellet mill, we would like to tell you about straw pellets. Straw are sort of biomass pellet fuel produced by straw pellet mill from straw residues just as the name suggested. A lot of us may be unfamiliar with straw pellets, but straw pellets actually have quite a great potential. For one thing, we have a sufficient material resource of straw residues, from wheat to barley straw, and all these agriculture wastes can be upgraded into pellets with high value. At Altocraft, we have produce high quality fuel pellets from straw residues successfully and also tested in both pellet stove and boiler. Besides straw, there are many other farm wastes that can be compressed into pellets, such as stalks and corn cobs. All these large amount of by-products once regarded as wastes are now ideal raw material that can be utilized for producing feed pellets and fuel pellets.

Straw Pellets – Renewable Fuel for Heating Systems

During the winter days, famers have to set up a heating system for pig and chicken sheds and many of them can hardly afford the costs due to the rising price of gas and oil. However, straw pellets offer us a perfect solution. After using the waste straw for animal bedding, you can reuse them for making fuel pellets and these pellets can provide heat for the barn in winter. Generally speaking, as a kind of renewable energy, straw pellets can meet almost all heating requirements on the farm. Moreover, you can also sell the pellets locally to make extra profits. But before buying a straw pellet mill, there are some drawbacks of straw fuel pellets you should be aware of: Unlike wood pellet fuel, straw pellets do generate a higher ash content when burning and there will probably comes other issues such as slag, corrosion and slag, therefore requires more work to keep the fireplace clean.

The Cost Of Straw Pellets Production

Since the resource of straw material is far more abundant, the cost of straw pellets would be much lower than wood pellets. In terms of straw pellet mill, less energy is required and higher productivity rate is achievable. So the price of straw pellet mill is also much lower than wood pellet mill. Finally, if you own a straw pellet mill yourself and produce pellets on your farm, the cost of both material transportation and pellets transportation could be reduced. One more thing, using straw pellets for heating not only benefit, but also benefits our planet and environment because of low carbon emission and wastes recycle.

ZLSP-150A Flat Die Pellet Machine

Straw Pellet Mills

Looking for pellet mills suitable for processing straw? Here is something you should know. Since the factor of low density, once the straw has been well prepared and feed into the pellet mill, it is in a very light powered form. By saying that we mean a flat die pellet mill which has a lower price and smaller size is totally available. Making straw pellets is quite easy, but straw pellets do have a lower mechanical durability and likely to generate more fines when compared with wood pellets.

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