FAQ About Biomass

 

 

Biomass is any living or recently dead material that can be used as fuel. This includes any wood and waste wood products, also energy crops such as Miscanthus, Switch Grass, Reed Canary Grass, Oilseed Straw to name but a few.

 

 

Biomass is a carbon neutral fuel, which means no extra carbon is released into the atmosphere when burnt, unlike fossil fuels. Biomass can play a crucial role in reducing global warming. Biomass is a cheap fuel to produce, much biomass is free, in the form of waste wood products.

 

 

 

Your choice of biomass should be based primarily on what you have available to you, but also what your boiler or stove can burn successfully without complications. Check the properties section for a summary of some biomass fuel properties.

 

 

The PelHeat unit is equipped with a hammer mill which breaks the raw material down into a uniform size (3mm-6mm). The hammer mill can process straws and grasses, however for the unit to accept wood for example it must be in a chipped form, or have a diameter less than 1 inch.