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ECONOMICS OF PRODUCING FUEL PELLETS FROM BIOMASS
Abstract
An engineering economic analysis of a biomass pelleting process was performed for conditions in North America.The pelletization of biomass consists of a series of unit operations: drying, size reduction, densifying, cooling, screening, andwarehousing. Capital and operating cost of the pelleting plant was estimated at several plant capacities. Pellet productioncost for a base case plant capacity of 6 t/h was about $51/t of pellets. Raw material cost was the largest cost element of thetotal pellet production cost followed by personnel cost, drying cost, and pelleting mill cost. An increase in raw material costsubstantially increased the pellet production cost. Pellet plants with a capacity of more than 10 t/h decreased the costs toroughly $40/t of pellets. Five different burner fuels wet sawdust, dry sawdust, biomass pellets, natural gas, and coal weretested for their effect on the cost of pellet production. Wet sawdust and coal, the cheapest burner fuels, produced the lowestpellet production cost. The environmental impacts due to the potential emissions of these fuels during the combustion processrequire further investigation.
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- Authors
- Mani, S., Sokhansanj, S., Bi, X., & Turhollow, A.
- Venue
- Applied Engineering in Agriculture
- Published
- 2006
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 421-426
- ISSN
- 0883-8542 (ISSN-L)
- 1943-7838
- OpenAlex
- W2003861127
- Cited by
- 328
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 11.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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