The latest research shows that using wood pellets for home
heating fuel reduces greenhouse gas emissions by more than half over
fossil fuels and natural gas. This research is conducted by
John Gunn from the NH Agricultural Experiment Station at the University
of New Hampshire. John Gunn is a research assistant professor of forest
management and researcher with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station.
According to Gunn’s research, there are some points as follows:
Wood pellet fuel reduces greenhouse emissions by 59% compared with
natural gas, and 54% compared with home heating oil. This data strongly
proofs that pellets from sawmill residues have the strongest greenhouse
gas emission benefits compared to fossil fuel and natural gas.
As the largest export country of wood pellet fuel. Wood pellet fuel is a hot
biomass fuel and
has been proposed as a climate-beneficial energy source to replace
fossil fuels in the United States. However, little effort has been tried
to assess this claim. In forest region of northern Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. There lives more than two million
people in rural communities, large towns, and small cities. This area is
surrounded by the largest intact forest in eastern United States, which
is a large potential wood pellet market with adequate sources.
Wood pellet production in the United States started from the
northwestern and northeastern regions, supplying regional residential
heating markets based on the small-scale production of sawmill residues.
These markets have grown year by year. Buying a biomass stove can enjoy
an allowance from the federal government, there is a biomass stove tax
credit, is a federal incentive to receive a tax credit of $ 300 by
December 31, 2016 for the purchase of wood pellet fuel or wood pellet
stoves.
With the new Highland Pellets plants put into use in Pine Bluff and
Alaska, the US pellet industry has achieved 13.7 Mt of capacity by the
end of 2016. Most plants which produce sawdust pellets operating
capacity reached 13.2Mt. Sawdust pellet production has shown steady
growth since 2004. Since 2005, 16 new pellet plants have been built in
the southern United States.
63% of total US production in 2015 was for exports, of which 99% were
exported to the EU market. Therefore, the EU is mainly used in the
industrial market. The rest of the production share is mainly for the
domestic market, while in this market is mainly for residential heating.
It is estimated that more than 13 million wood heaters are put into
operation in the United States.
Advantages of wood pellets are summarized below:
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Little flying ash. Generally, the wood dust is no more than 3%(except
for rice husks, etc.). simplifies the ash dealing device of the burning
equipment.
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Wood pellet fuel during the process of burning produce little smoke, no black smoke.
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Wood pellet fuel usually doesn’t have effection on the natural circulation of carbon in nature.
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Sawdust itself contains less Nitrogen than coal, which reduces the formation of Nitrogen oxides.
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Sulfur oxide emissions are lower during combustion. The sulfur content
of sawdust is generally less than 0.1%. Flue gas desulfurization device
is not needed, helps reducing the cost and benefiting the environment
protection.
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Reduce emissions of heavy metal pollutants. Studies have shown that
coal contains many trace elements, such as: As, Hg, V, Pb, Zn, Se, Co,
Ni, Cr, many of which are toxic and harmful heavy metal elements. The
basic sawdust does not contain heavy metals.
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Wood chips are rich in resources and prices are especially low. With wood chips for fuel reduces the cost of raw materials.
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Wood pellets can burn fully, reduce the waste of incomplete combustion caused.
Our pellet machine is suitable for small or medium scale use, which suit
home or small plants. As winter is already coming, let pellets brings
you a warm winter.