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How to choose a feedstock for pellet making?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvXELpkYdaE&t=19s

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06:11:00

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2020

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Energy Answers for the Beginning Farmer & Rancher
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Because the quality and quantity of pellets depend on the production methods, it is equally important to choose the feed stock for making them. Because the the biomass pelleting on farm produces intensified value added material, choosing pelleting material depend on the availability of material to produce pellets, equipment which are to be used in processing and the end use of the product after manufacturing.

Choosing feedstock

Because pellet producing materials includ forest feeding, perennial grasses, wood crops and crop residues, removing bark from wood before pellet making lowers ash content while for short rotation woody crops, ‘there is need to grow tres that can be planted in tiny space rows. Finally, pellets from crop residues have high ash content.
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00:0000:25Biomass pelleting on farm produces intensified value added material.
00:2600:51Choosing pelleting material depend on vailability.
00:5201:53Other cosiderations include equipment availability and end use.
01:5402:06Pellet producing material include forest feeding and perennial grasses.
02:0702:11Others are wood crops and crop residues.
02:1204:18Grow trees that can be plated in tiny space rows.
04:1905:28Pellets crop crop residues have high ash content.

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