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Dereks boiler project

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:29:13 +0000

Intro to my multi fuel central heating boiler project.

Duration : 0:4:49

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Wood Pellet Fuel Boiler

admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:47:17 +0000

To learn more about pellet stoves and boilers please visit:

http://www.woodpelletstovesboilers.com/

To learn how Wood Pellets are made please visit:

http://www.woodpelletmill.com

This is a video of a Tatano pellet boiler burning a mixture of, wood pellets, wheat straw pellets, barley straw pellets, reed canary grass pellets, miscanthus pellets and cardboard pellets. All of these pellets are known collectively as biomass pellets. These fuel pellets have been produced using the PelHeat Mobile Pelletizer, which can produce biomass fuel pellets from a wide variety of materials. The unit is based on a small single axel trailer and features a hammer mill for size reduction and a flat die pellet mill to compress the material into pellets. The units are powered by Perkins diesel engines, which can also use bio-diesel.

Biomass pellets are a carbon neutral fuel source, as they are sourced from the carbon cycle they do not introduce extra carbon in to the cycle like fossil fuels. With the PelHeat Mobile Pelletizer local biomass resources can be used to produce biomass pellets, which are then used in the local community. This produces a cheaper fuel for the consumer, provides income and jobs for the local economy, utilizes local biomass resources and waste resources, and reduces dependence on foreign oil.

For more information visit:

http://www.PelHeat.com

Duration : 0:3:41

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Making Biomass Pellets from Peat Moss

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:52:10 +0000

One biomass material that is quite abundant is peat moss. In this video I use an Apted Technologies ATFP230 Diesel Powered (22hp) pellet mill and hand fed the 30 pounds of the pete moss in about 6 minutes. With a steady auger feed I believe I could have easily doubled that amount. As with any material, if you feed too much material it will either bind up and stall the mill, or it will ball up and slip and you end up cleaning out from in front of the wheels with a stick. Thats no good, too time consuming and too little production in the end! The peat moss when pelletized in this fashion is reduced in volume by a factor of about 6 to 1 while the weight is not affected. These peat moss pellets might serve very effectively in the gardening business, as an absorbent, or as a fuel for a barbeque, or a wood pellet stove or furnace, or as a fuel for a boiler to make steam and run an electrical generator and hydronic heating system. They would be exceptional in a combined heat and power application. If anybody wants to buy a pellet mill or learn about making pellets I have products available. Call me at 907-952-1903 or email me at dapted@customcpu.com or visit my eBay store at http://stores.ebay.com/Apted-Technologies-Inc
I can provide anything you need to make pellets. Dryers, Grinders, Conveyors, Sifter Sorters, Magnetic Filters, Dust Filters, Cyclones, Conditioners, Pellet Mills (both flat plate and ring die style) Pellet Coolers, and Bagging Systems manufactured to your specifications or mine. I am also available for consultation to build an entire plant if you would like. But don”t call me to video a wedding. As you can see, I am not very good at it. But you must admit, the picture quality is pretty good. It was recorded on April 17, 2009 at 9PM in Anchorage, Alaska using a Flip Video camcorder. Keep an eye out here for more videos. I intend to pelletize many different products and keep track of how well they pelletize.

Duration : 0:9:10

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BioRegional Development Group, UK, Wood-chip from waste

admin — Mon, 25 May 2009 20:06:04 +0000

http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/bdg BioRegional won an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2006. To find out more visit the link above and check out the Ashden Awards Blog http://ashdenawards.blogspot.com

The BioRegional Development Group has established a ‘TreeStation’ — a centre where waste wood is received from many sources, turned into wood-chip and delivered for use as a heating fuel. Until recently, their site capacity was about 2,500 tonnes per year, but a new chipper has increased this to 15,000 tonnes per year.

Legislation in the London Borough of Croydon and other boroughs requires all significant new building developments to generate 10% of their energy from on-site renewable sources. Biomass heating is one of the most cost-effective ways to do this, but requires a reliable supply of fuel. The London boroughs do have a considerable resource of fuelwood from the management of parks, gardens and woodland, but much of the waste produced is currently sent to landfill, at a cost of about £40 per tonne.

The BioRegional Development Group brokered an innovative deal between tree surgery business, City Suburban Tree Surgeons Ltd, and Croydon Council to manage and dispose of all the Council’s wood waste. BioRegional established a TreeStation — a centre where waste wood is received from many sources, turned into wood-chip and delivered for use as a fuel for heating and combined heat-and-power. Until recently, the TreeStation had produced about 2,500 tonnes of wood-chip per year for a single customer, Slough Heat and Power, who supply heat and electricity to Slough Estates and use an increasing amount of wood in their fuel supply. With recent equipment, the TreeStation now has the capacity to process 15,000 tonnes per year. BioRegional is also setting up drying facilities so that the wood-chip will have lower moisture content, and so be suitable for a wide range of boilers.

Duration : 0:5:13

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