pellets

Pellets are a sort of natural biological fuel. They look like small cylinders, 25mm long and 5-8mm wide and they are made of the back pressure of sawdust and wood wastes. Pellets are manufactured by mechanical process without any use of chemicals or other substances.

use of pellets

Indicative uses of pellets
Pellets are used as fuel at:
•  industries and crafts
•  public buildings (hospitals, schools, prisons, swimming-pools, foundations, public services etc)
• hotels, spa, compounds of residences
• greenhouses and bird-breeding units
• domestic heating
• district heating of residential areas
• bakery, pizzerias

Heating by Pellets
Pellets are widely used all over the world for heating purposes; at stoves, fireplaces, boilers with high technology devices that provide ability of independency, temperature mode, burning control and weekly electronic operation scheduling. What is more, the last few years, the use of pellets for heating purposes has been increased significantly, all across Europe, thanks to the cost of fuels (oil, natural gas) that make biomass, in comparison to the rest of them, the cheapest fuel. Owing to their cylindrical shape, the smooth surface as well as their small size, pellets act like the liquids, so they make easier their transferring and automatic feed of the boiler. Today in Europe, they have been developed advanced, functional and productive burning systems which operate just like a common oil boiler. Moreover, the systems of water stoves that they can be connected to radiators know great development. In Italy, 2006, 220.000 such stoves were set in operation while the progress continues with increasing rate.

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advantages

If you choose pellets as fuel, you will get many advantages such as:
• economy
• non chemical add-ons
• their manufacture does not require tree cutting while they are made of wastes of the carpentry and lumber processes
• their use contribute significantly to the reduce of lumber wastes (avoidance of fire risk) as well as the carpentry wastes
• pellets do not emit neither smokes nor dangerous gases during their burning, consequently they do not pollute the environment

energy of the future

Why are they included to the green energy?
Pellets are solid fuels that are produced through mechanic biomass process that is to say without the slightest addition of chemical substances. During their burning, they set free all CO₂ that they have absorbed during their life, so they do not pollute the environment. Pellets are included to the RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES because the CO₂set free during their burning is absorbed by the plants during their process of growing.
In this way, a “closed circle” of null emissions is created..

What’s happening nowadays in Europe?
In Denmark, 46% of the houses is heated by pellets. The same stands for Sweden where have been created district heating systems for whole cities. Needless to say, these northern countries are inhabited by people of true ecological notion.
Let’s see what happens in our neighbor, Italy. In 2008, according to official data, pellet consumption exceeded the 1.000.000 tons.
This means that they were imported 500.000 tons less oil.
Of course, Germany, Austria, France, Great Britain, Spain and other evolved countries have great share to the partial independency from oil, thanks to the use of pellets. Greece has still several steps to be able to keep up with them. However, progress lies at the gates.

The only fuel with null balance of CO2 emissions

Why should I use pellets?

• It is more cost-efficient in use than oil. It has stable quality and humidity (<8%)
• Its value is stable, so the constant oil accretions (that lead to depletion) do not affect the consumer
• It is clean and easy to use and store as it is packaged to 15kg sacks.
• Stoves that burn pellets are considered the best solution for apartments and professional spaces that do not have the ability of a big chimney (it is only required a pipe of 1-2m and a small drill of 8cm diameter).
• Their profitability is over 85%
• They do not need constant feed because they have a reservoir for the fuel material. It requires filling once or twice a week (depending on the use and volume of operation).
• The warmth and sensation of the fire are the same as wood.
• Pellet stoves have hourly and weekly scheduling. They include an incorporated thermostat.
• They can optionally have a special modem for the control of the unit via a mobile phone.
• They can fully satisfy the heating needs (and ecologically speaking) of a typical home without the use of another heating resource.

More information on the website: www.alfapellet.gr