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Advantages of Fuel Pucks Briquets can help Pellet Plants Fuel Puck Plant 500,000 Tons/Yr

• Bulk Densities Of Forest Residuals

- Capital costs are based on commercial lease rates and are subject to credit approval
- Operational costs based on 15 cents/kwh, $20/hour labor and $70/hour for service
- An experienced person can see that the total capital and operations costs per ton are less than pelleting and similarly the more tonnage produced the less costs per ton. In some cases the total briquetting costs in this table per ton are equal to just the operations costs of a pelleting plant. Unless you are considering making pellets for the consumer pellet stove market we see little reason to produce pellets vs briquets, see more on this in the fuel pucks vs pellets table. Typically the BP5500 briquetter models are used extensively to produce industrial briquets and fuel pucks. Nevertheless we probably have a briquetter to fit your operation in an effective cost / payback scenario. They are not only effective at converting wood residuals to solid fuels they can also be the answer to your plant dust problems and at the same time produce a solid fuel.
- For operational and capital costs associated with the smaller capacity Holzmag briquetters also featured on this site please contact
- The Holzmag briquetters are used extensively to reduce plant dust into a more handeable and useable format. They usually can be easily connected to existing plant dust collectors. Although a few hundred pounds per hour of dust may not seem like a lot, when one who has seen what 10 or 20 pounds of dust can do inside a plant building will agree dust is a pervasive ,costly, potentially dangerous and unhealthy problem. Holzmag briquetters can be found in all the major paper and tissue mill plants as well as some of the more larger printing and binding corporations both in North America and worldwide.

- Capital costs are based on commercial lease rates and are subject to credit approval
- Operational costs based on 15 cents/kwh, $20/hour labor and $70/hour for service
- An experienced person can see that the total capital and operations costs per ton are less than pelleting and similarly the more tonnage produced the less costs per ton. In some cases the total briquetting costs in this table per ton are equal to just the operations costs of a pelleting plant. Unless you are considering making pellets for the consumer pellet stove market we see little reason to produce pellets vs briquets, see more on this in the fuel pucks vs pellets table. Typically the BP5500 briquetter models are used extensively to produce industrial briquets and fuel pucks. Nevertheless we probably have a briquetter to fit your operation in an effective cost / payback scenario. They are not only effective at converting wood residuals to solid fuels they can also be the answer to your plant dust problems and at the same time produce a solid fuel.
- For operational and capital costs associated with the smaller capacity Holzmag briquetters also featured on this site please contact
- The Holzmag briquetters are used extensively to reduce plant dust into a more handeable and useable format. They usually can be easily connected to existing plant dust collectors. Although a few hundred pounds per hour of dust may not seem like a lot, when one who has seen what 10 or 20 pounds of dust can do inside a plant building will agree dust is a pervasive ,costly, potentially dangerous and unhealthy problem. Holzmag briquetters can be found in all the major paper and tissue mill plants as well as some of the more larger printing and binding corporations both in North America and worldwide.

Equipment Assumptions

Hauling Cost Comparison for Different Fuel Types

Example - 500 km round trip

NOTES

• If planer shavings are not packed into truckload then the cost per GJ will be significantly more - unpacked shavings typically weigh 15000-20,000 KG/truckload
• See table of bulk densities of various forest residuals
• GJ = Gigajoule, a unit of energy