Many people enjoy pellet heating without bothering to know how these wood pellets are made. In addition, these people will just rush to their nearest convenience store and buy the wood pellet that they require for heating without knowing that the amount of money they are spending could actually be saved, if only if they invested in their own pellet mill. However, before setting out to buy a pellet mill, one must first understand how the pellet production processes work, and the kind of machines that are involved.

To begin with, you must obviously have a pellet mill that will be used to make the wood pellets. Apart from this pellet mill, you must also have a chipper or hammer mill, which comes in handy when there is need to breakdown large pieces of wood, into sizes suitable for pelletizing.

Having said these, the confusion comes in when selecting a pellet mill. There are 2 types of pellet mills; namely the Ring Die Pellet mill and the Flat Die Pellet mill. The difference is not major, and lies in the die used i.e. a plate with holes where the mill’s roller presses the raw materials to form the pellets. Therefore, you will need to know which pellet mill to buy, depending on the purpose that you intend to use it for. The differences between the 2 mills are as below.

 

• The Flat Die Pellet machine has a small yield that the Ring Die Pellet, hence it is suitable for small-scale pellet production.
• The Flat Die Pellet machine has an adjustable pressure load hence is more versatile when making different types of pellets, and especially when it comes to pressing viscous materials such as corn meal feeds.
• The Ring Die Pellet machine is more suited for making animal feeds, due to its low power consumption compared to the large output that it produces.