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Biomass can take many unlike forms, and include a wide assortment of likely crops along with natural matter that can potentially be used for energy production. Below you can see pictures of wood energy pellets. These include pictures of biomass, straw plus straw pellets. These are just a few of the possible wood materials which can be used to make energy pellets. These pellets can then be used in pellet stoves as well as boilers.

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Typical examples of wood are wood, including all tree’s and tree residues. Everyone is familiar by the standard biomass fire, yet this is a very basic form of biomass fuel, and not very proficient. Other forms of wood include purpose grown crops for food. Here, morally the food component of the crop should always be used for food, yet there is a lot of residue left over which can be used as a biomass fuel source. By wheat or barley for instance, there is a lot of grass residue remaining. In the past this grass conventionally was burnt in the field as there was no use for it. On the other hand do the smoke plus particulates generated because of doing this, in most countries this is now banned. Though, this means there is now a large volume of grass after each harvest that has to be dealt by. This grass can be collected plus processed into proficient pellet fuel as you can see from the pictures below. An additional case is corn, with corn crops the waste left over is the cob as well as the stalk. Again both of these materials can be processed into energy pellets to be used in biomass pellet stoves in addition to boilers.

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One of the specific reward to using the waste from food crop production is it generated a dual income from one crop. At a time when food prices are increasing along with farmers are finding it more difficult to produce a profit because of high oil costs, additional income from the crops would be more than welcome. In fact, a dual income for food and fuel crop could even lower the cost of food along with fuel. Pellet production to upgrade the biomass material in pellets, pictures seen below, can be carried out on a local small scale. What this means is that there can be a complete local cycle of crop, to pellet to consumer. This can generate a significant number of local jobs in farming, pellet manufacture in addition to distribution. It also keeps more money within the local community, to be spent improving local facilities. In terms of a green fuel perspective there are also many payback. However biomass itself is carbon neutral, fossil fuel fuel will be involved, presently anyway in the production and distribution of the energy pellets. Therefore by a complete local supply, production in addition to distribution cycle, transportation which is the biggest CO2 contributor is not only reduced in raw matter transportation but also transportation of the finished pellets to the consumer. In the future more bioenergy will be used to make and shipping the pellets. The manufacture of wood pellets as you can see from the pictures on the right involves compression because of a die. The machinery used to perform this task is known as a pellet mill, pellet machine or pellet press. Making pellets requires the right apparatus in addition to knowledge.

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