Ian Smith from Kent in England had a choice to make when his oil boiler needed replacing, to choose another oil boiler or move to a biomass system. Ian had a choice between a log fired boiler or a pellet boiler, and due to the convenience features, he opted for the pellet boiler. Ian’s main focus is the ‘green’ aspects of installing such a system, not a decision purely driven on cost savings. The system Ian chose to install is completely automated with a very large 6 tonne hopper, which for the size of Ian’s property would heat his home for well over a year.
The pellet boiler Ian has installed is a OkoFen pellet boiler. This is a highly efficient pellet boiler with very low maintenance, however the boiler can only handle premium wood pellets with a low ash percentage. For more information on the OkoFen please use the search bar to the lower right of the Blog.
Ian also talks about the carbon foot front associated with producing pellets. With the PelHeat Mobile Pelletizer we were keen to source a power unit that could accept bio-diesel under warranty. The Perkins engines we have opted for allow the user to use bio-diesel, this reduces the carbon foot print of pellet production and reduces production costs for the user.
Ian’s situation is very similar to what started PelHeat as a company, as our oil system was inefficient and needed replacing, and the cost of oil was costing thousands of pounds a year. We also installed our Tatano pellet boiler in an external building like Ian, and we pipe hot water underground to the house. The Tatano boiler we installed is not as sophisticated as Ian’s OkoFen, however we do have several other advantages. Firstly the cost of our setup was less than half that of Ian’s £12,000. Also what the Tatano lacks in sophistication, it makes up for in fuel flexibility. The Tatano can also burn logs, and any type of biomass pellet, for example we currently burn wheat straw pellets. The Tatano can also have installed at any time a bolt on oil or gas burner, which reduces the risk for people not totally convinced by biomass as a back up. In the future we intend to explore biomass pellet gasification, we will therefore fit a gas burner bolted to the back of the Tatano running on gas made from biomass pellets.
One important final point that pellet boilers offer compared to log boiler is this. You only get logs from trees, but you can produce fuels pellets from any cellulose biomass feed stock. So again this becomes a question of flexibility and how to make best use of resources. The PelHeat Mobile Pelletizer is also designed with flexibility in mind, keeping the process simple and adjustable so the user can process any biomass into pellets as they wish.
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The PelHeat Mobile Pelletizer can upgrade various biomass resources into fuel pellets including wood pellets. If you would be interested in registering your interest in the PelHeat Mobile Pelletizer and receiving updates on our progress and informed when the pelletizer is on sale please send us an email to :
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