[Bioconversion] switchgrass pellets

[Les Blevins]

I like the switchgrass idea but I question the need for pelletizing.

I'm offering a system that uses baled switchgrass, corn stalks, bean stems,
cotton trash, weeds or any of a dozen more fuels that can be baled in small
square or large round bales. It will burn logs, broken pallets and waste oil
as well.

This outside furnace can use pelletized fuels too, and for convenience they
are hard to beat, but why not eliminate the cost of palletizing if you need
a lot of Btu's to heat large areas such as greenhouses, barns, poultry
houses, swine houses and such and want to heat the farm house and the hired
hand's house too?

The AAEC furnace can heat several buildings if they are close enough
together to connect to a heat storage tank by insulated buried water lines.

Les Blevins
Advanced Alternative Energy
1207 N 1800 Rd.
Lawrence, KS 66049
Ph: 785-842-1943
http://www.aaecorp.com/ceo.html

Dealers/Distribtors wanted

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Reeves" <jonathan.reeves at sympatico.ca>
To: <bioconversion at listserv.repp.org>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 8:21 AM
Subject: [Bioconversion] switchgrass pellets


Hello list,



I wish to manufacture switch grass pellets on a small scale (up to a few 10s 
of tons annually in the first instance from about 10 acres) for pellet stove 
use by a few locally interested farms/houses.  Does anyone have experience 
of the feasibility of converting switch grass to pellets as I have had 
difficulty in finding this information on the net and people I've e-mailed 
about it don't seem to reply.  I would intend getting a used California 
pellet mill (20 HP or so) to make the pellets.  Does this sound feasible, or 
do I need a custom machine to make biofuel pellets?  It seems cutting baling 
and pelleting 10 acres of switchgrass to make 30 tons of pellets is far 
easier than cutting and splitting 30 tons of firewood,



Many thanks



Jonathan Reeves


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