Five Similarities of Pellet Mill and Briquette Machine

Biomass material such as rice husk, wheat straw, maize stalks and peanut shell as well as sawdust, saw shavings and wood chips can be produced either into briquette or pellet. But what are the differences between briquette and pellet? Here we want to share some knowledge with friends and clients from across the world.

Fote type pellet mill is basically a standard version, it has a straight design and function to make quality biomass pellets from different material. D type is chosen by most starters. While R type is pro version pellet mill which has a smarter die and roller movement profile and is using a superb gearbox. Better function, higher price. R type is the right choice for clients who has a strict requirements and flexible budget.

Briquette is manufactured by briquetting machine, also known as briquette maker or briquette press But how does a biomass briquetting machines work? Take making wood briquettes for example, under circumstance of high pressure and temperature, the lignin, which is a kind of polymer in the wood, originally working as a support of wood cell wall, will turn to a sort of plastic matter that stick the briquettes together.

In the first place, you should know the similarities of them:

1. Both briquette and pellet are compacted and tightly squeezed form of biomass with super high density of about 700kg-1100kg/cm3 due to starkly different material attributes;

2. Both briquette and pellet can be used as renewable biomass fuel to replace fossil fuel like coal or natural gas or petroleum;

3. Both of them can be applied for domestic range and industrial scale for heating or power production;

4. Both briquette and pellet can be stored and transported with less floor space for the convenience of long-term retention and transportation.

5. Both of the two will be produced by adopting familar processing procedures.

At length, the technological process for both briquette and pellet includes (debarking--chipping--screening--pulverizing)--drying--conveying--briquetting(pelletizing)--conveying--packing.

At the present, Fote Heavy Machinery has set up three state level machinery research institutes, and we also produce various kinds of lignite ball press machine, lime briquette machine and free service for assembling various kinds of production line.
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