Build Your Own Pellet Mill-Homemade Pellet Mill lets you make pellets at home

With people's growing knowing about environmental protection and energy-saving, the need for wood pellet fuel for home heating is increasing, too. Not only is this pellet fuel a renewable energy, it can also meet lots of today's concerns for renewable energy. And it's really cool making pellets at home by yourself!

Here I'd like to show some main procedures of pelletizing about homemade pellet mill, the main process are refer to the following words:

First of all, you need to have a wood pellet making machine. After that, with right materials and correct instructions which you can learn from instruction manual or other ways , you will naturally get your own pellets right in your own house.

1.Crushing
First and foremost, using a wood chipping machine to chip raw materials right into small items, then all these items ought to be crushed into wood powder by hammer mills when necessary.

2.Drying
As to pelletizing, homemade pellet mills need their best moisture content of the materials to work correctly. For this reason, drying the raw materials to favorite moisture content before putting them into the machine is your excellent selection. Generally, 13-15% is the greatest moisture content for this machine.

3.Pelletizing
After drying to ideal moisture content, the material ought to be put into mills to be pelletized. There are many this type of machines, including diesel, small pellet mill, ring die and flat die pellet mill, etc. You may choose any one of them depending on your needs for homemade pellet mill.

4.Cooling
In this step, the temperature of pellets is around 60-80 degrees and moisture content is about 15%. In such cases, the moisture content needs to be reduced by 3%-4% using Coolers for storage purpose.

5.Packing
If your pellets are not for consuming purpose directly or you just want to store then for a time, bagging process is necessary because it can prevent the pellets from getting damp.