Tons of people have a problem with waste biomass building up. On site pelletizing for use in a steam generator for FFE’s sounds like a pretty straight forward direction. Just wanted to kick up a thread to hear if anyone has insight into pulling this off appropriately?
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Haven’t looked into it for in a steam generator, but we’ve looked at it for some other things.
http://coloradomillequipment.com/ makes decent pelletizers from what I hear.
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I did extensive research into this recently. There are definitely pellet boilers though nobody was willing to promise they’d work 100% with hemp. I was even more interested in possibility of pellet based electricity generation but it didn’t look like the technology was there yet.
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Even having steam for heat and process heating would be useful. And I bet a little bit of residual ethanol wouldn’t hurt the combustibility parameters.
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Check out all power labs. Their steam generator should be pretty close at this point. If Jim Mason can’t set it on fire, it probably isn’t gonna burn worth a damn…
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My assumption was that the hemp biomass would need to be proportionally mixed with some other biomass to burn properly for the application. I’ll dig around more and see what I can find. Thanks for the insight
You gots the waste biomass? Let’s chat.
yep.
burns pretty when it comes out of the fuge too…
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seems like steams might be a really good solution.
I really like the idea of a steam turbine powered chiller
but there are all sorts of other uses for waste generated steam.
I think I’ve found my next project 
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You probably wouldn’t even need to pelletize if you had the right feed and a forced air type gasification system.
for optimal cleaning of all your C1D1 equipment
I’ve been trying to think up a beautiful, elegant, and obscure method to attack this bonfire chiller challenge and come to the disappointing realization that the most effective solution is still lame and ugly: steam kettle gennie to power a conventional compressor.
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