2009 20 Dec

Comfort House

Your wood pellet boiler.
Hi, I guess you’ve already purchase a couple of tons of wood pellets to heat up your home. That’s right decision. And now it’s high time to talk about all the aspects of using wood pellet boilers. It’s very essential to know because without a boiler your wood pellets are worthless. So let’s devote a few minutes to this matter.

Into the boiler wood pellets are fed directly from the bunker. The bunker can be made of various materials, such as from conventional ones such as plywood for example. Furthermore conventional 200-liter plastic drums are also used sometimes. By the way the dimensions of your bunker are only limited by your own fantasy.

Being compared with other types of fuel, pellets do not leave traces on the surface of the boiler or stove and they easily removed with the help of a broom and shovel. In contrast with a liquid fuel wood pellets can be used as a real absorbent for different purposes. Thank to this quality wood pellets are often used for cat toilets.

One of the main drawbacks of using wood pellets is the relatively high cost of wood pellet boilers. If you already have a solid fuel boiler, it is possible to install a pellet burner in order to save on buying a specialized boiler for burning wood pellets. However, despite the high cost of equipment, taking into account the cost of fuel you’ll save on heating in 2-3 years and return your invested money. It’s a promising scenario, isn’t it?

Today pellets are mostly comparable with coal as for the cost and the amount of heat released. And I should stress that wood pellets can bring you a joy of such fully automated processes as loading and removal of the slag due to using sophisticated modern wood pellet boilers. When using coal you have to do all of this manually. As for gas I can say that you won’t be delighted to be dependent on the system of pipelines. Moreover gas is exposed to sudden explosions with a considerably destructive effect. In addition, when using pellets there are no restrictions on capacity, in other words, you can install a pellet thermal equipment and unlimited power.

After the combustion of wood pellets only a miserable amount of ash can be formed in the volume of about 1% of the weight of pellets. From my own experience I can say that my own boiler should be cleaned once every two weeks. That’s quite normal for my boiler of a standard design. And I should add that the operation takes no more than an hour and includes such procedures as cooling the burner, opening of the combustion chamber, and removal of the ash box and then I need to assemble all of this in a reverse order. I hope that it has been interesting for you to know all of this.

Among different energy saving alternatives, we highly recommend you to read more about wood pellets.

Just a short list of benefits of using wood pellets. They are not sophisticated; they do not require huge investments into fancy equipment; they come from mother nature. Please invest part of your time into reading more about wood pellets – it is really vital now.