With the particular pelletizing machine operation guide, making pellet is no more a big deal for almost every one, but there is still one thing to be concerned or confused lot of people. It's how to make quality-controlled wood pellets.
Quality-controlled wood pellets that the pelletizing machine made are considered carbon-neutral. The carbon-neutrality argument is based on the fact that trees, the original source of raw materials for pelletizing machine, absorb as much carbon while growing as they give back to the atmosphere when burnt. There are obviously variables to consider, such as the efficiency of the combustion unit and the fact that processing wood into pellets by a pelletizer machine also has energy and carbon emission implications. It's the same true even in process out of pelletizing machine such as transporting pellets to end-users. Sometimes, newly cut forestry wood is even mechanically dried before being send to the pelletizing machine, something that uses significant amounts of energy.
According to a Department of Trade and Industry study that looked at the life-cycle carbon dioxide emissions of various fuels, for every megawatt-hour of energy utilized, wood pellets made be pelletizing machine produce less than 5 percent of the emissions of oil. When compared to natural gas, the same life-cycle analysts estimate that wood pellets produce only 5.5 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions created by natural gas. You see? All these benefits are made by just one pelletizer machine.
A study by the Sulzberger Institute for Urbanization and Housing indicates that an average Austrian household with pelletizing machine (switching from an oil to a pellet heating system) would save up to 10 tons of carbon dioxide emissions every year. Their carbon-neutrality, plus the fact that pelletizer machine can produce a renewable resource, means that technology of pelletizing machines often attract capital grants and favorable policy instruments from regional, national and international authorities. Electricity produced from biomass (including wood pellets) already receives additional financial incentives in many countries. With the spread of pelletizing machine, heat from pellets is likely to follow suit.
