Pellet boiler FOCUS, ARPAL shredder and pellet granulator: free autonomous heating

Today we want to offer you free autonomous heating for objects remote from the city. Moreover, the level of heating comfort will not be inferior to the gas one. For example, farms, houses or hotels built in reserves can be heated this way. Do I need to choose plots near the city now in order to provide myself with the possibility of comfortable heat and power supply? This is probably not necessary. Moreover, with an increase in the distance from the city, the owners have more opportunities to provide themselves with free autonomous heating.

How much does it cost to buy a boiler room for autonomous heating?

This will require:

• set of equipment pellet boiler Focus 6-35 kW;
• automation kit Plum Ecomax for complete automation of heating;
• shredder ARPAL;
• compact pellet granulator.

After watching the video, many of our readers will assume that pellets can be used to heat ordinary stoves and boilers. More likely no than yes. Rather, when heating the furnace with pellets, the ash content of the energy resource can correspond to 50-60%, which implies its failure within one season. This is due to the peculiarities of the thermodynamic process provided by pellet boilers when installing a flare burner. The technological solution is known as bulk combustion.

The initial cost of the proposed solution is quite high. Such a kit will cost plus or minus 160 thousand hryvnia (2020). The boiler room will consume about 2-3 tons of pellets for the heating season per 100 sq. m area. That is, the volume of harvesting should be 3-6 tons of pellets per year. How can I do that?

We note right away that in Ukraine there are no standards for the use of pellet granules and their ash content in heating systems. When self-preparing pellet fuel, the owners receive pellets of uncertified quality and with unstable ash content. To improve the quality of granules will help  drum dryers, which we have already talked about. But this is available only to large industrial and agricultural industries.

In this case, you can simply adhere to the general rule that in order to improve the quality of fuel for solid fuel boilers, it must stand under a canopy for at least 8 months.

How it works

In practice, everything is pretty simple. Within a year, you will need to prepare raw materials for the manufacture of pellets. Any agricultural waste can be used for this purpose with the ARPAL shredder. It can be not only wheat hay, sunflower husk or sawdust. The shredder allows for this purpose to use grass, branches, various agricultural waste, for example, corn after harvesting.

If you live in a remote area, then the usual sanitary forest clearing will allow you to stock up on the right amount of raw materials for pellet fuel, without violating the laws on logging. As a supplement, you can import sawdust from a sawmill or sunflower husks from an oil plant. But farmers, as a rule, can provide an average of 6-9 tons of raw materials for home and farm on their own and completely free of charge.

Sequence of work:

• preparation of sawdust using a grinder;
• pellet granulation;
• storage and natural drying;
• use of fuel pellets for heating during the heating season.

Fuel in such a production cycle is free for farmers.

What are the benefits solid fuel boiler FOCUS

To familiarize yourself with the proposed equipment in more detail, we recommend to readers detailed overview of solid fuel boilers FOCUS... These boilers and pellet burners are equipped with Plum EcoMAX microcontrollers, for which a separate review has also been prepared.

FOCUS pellet boilers are a set of equipment, which includes:

• solid fuel boilers FOCUS with door adapter for pellet burner;
• pellet flare burner FOCUS;
• pellet hopper appropriate capacity and with a fuel supply system;
• a set of victalitic fittings included in the kit and making the equipment ready for connection.

Solid fuel boilers can operate on solid and pellet fuels, which is also convenient when there is no granular raw material. At the same time, the boiler equipment is equipped with a built-in Plum EcoMAX controller. Its functionality is complemented by a heating control system with Wi-Fi and room micro-climate control devices from the same equipment line.

The proposed pellet boilers FOCUS are a complete solution, in combination with the equipment of the Plum EcoMAX model range, allowing to fully automate the boiler room and heating system. A feature of this Ukrainian equipment is work on pellets with high ash content. For this reason, farmers can pellet pellets on their own without tracking the physical parameters of each batch. Solid fuel boilers FOCUS have special design features designed for heating the boiler with fuel pellets.

Buying such a set, farmers for only 160 thousand hryvnia, which is equivalent to about 6 thousand dollars, provide themselves with free autonomous heating. This solution is designed for villages and farms where there are a lot of raw materials for self-production of pellets.

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