When it comes to pellet making, the most crucial stage is the cooling of the pellets. Most people looking to make their own pellets think that the whole is as easy as feeding wood shavings into a pellet mill to get pellets( For more details check here .) . Well, the process is a bit more complicated. There is the cooling part, which is the break or makes part of the whole process. It is this final juncture that will determine if you will get to use the pellets or you should seek out some other means of keeping your home warm. Actually for a lot of first time pellet makers, this is the part where frustration and disappointment first rear their ugly heads. The pellets come out of the pellet mill perfectly formed but upon storage they crumble and most people do not understand why. Experts have pinpointed this problem to the high temperature in the freshly manufactured pellets. Therefore a pellet cooler is necessary so that the integrity of pellets can be preserved.

Pellets fresh out of a pellet mill have a heat measurement of around 25 degrees Celsius and when they are piled one on top of the other, this heat can increase 10 fold. Consider the case of a compost heap. In the center of the whole heap, there is enough heat to actually boil a kettle of water. This is the same case when it comes to pellets and with such heat, the likelihood of crumbling is all but certain. Coolers are therefore employed to help pellets discharge this heat in a manner that their structural integrity is not interfered with. The best pellet cooler to use is a counter flow cooler that cools the pellets against their flow. This makes it easier to dispense the heat as well as remove any moisture content in the pellets. When you are storing pellets, you need to make sure that they are below or at room temperature and also their moisture content should be below 10% so that they do not crumble.