Biomass wood pellets made by the wood pelleting machine are a kind a renewable fuel. They are made from wood waste or wood co-product such as straw and sawdust. In American and Canadian, this fuel is manufactured with production figures between 680 and 690,000 tons every year for winter heating.
Most of the pellets fuels are consumed for heating house, but there is a growing world market for other uses such as large scale electricity generation and industry heating system.
The biomass pellets themselves have a cylindrical from 6mm to 8mm ( 1A to 5/16 inch ) in diameter and must not be longer than 38mm ( 1.5 inches ). Thus formed, they are an easily to transport and store, free flowing, virtually dust free fuel.
