Paddy Straw based Briquetting Plant in Punjab, India

Developing countries are very environment sensitive when it comes to activities such as energy generation, heat production and cooking. For this reason, we have come up with inventions to replace coal and charcoal which lets out harmful gases in the air and such inventions include the use of biomass such as in the Paddy straw Briquetting plant. The…

It’s time for the pellet to shine.

For thousands of years, people have burned wood for heat. From campfires to fireplaces, people love the idea of a wood fire heating their house. But wood-burning appliances and fireplaces may emit large quantities of air pollutants. Wood smoke contains hundreds of chemical compounds including nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, organic gases, and particulate matter, many of…

Waste to Energy: Cocoa Pod Husk Briquettes & Pellets

In the World’s least developed countries, solid fuel is the primary cooking fuel for over 80% of the population. Indoor air pollution ranks in the top four leading risk factors for death worldwide. Furthermore, urban demand for wood-based fuels such as charcoal drives unsustainable, large-scale deforestation. Ultimately, the byproducts of biomass combustion—which is often incomplete…

Fascinating facts about wood pellet fuel

Pellets are a great, economical way to heat your home. Learn some of the facts of why to consider pellets as this winters heat source. Wood pellet are produced by compressing the wood that come from, mostly, waste wood of sawmills, or wood-processing manufactures. One ton of wood pellets has the energy equivalency of 2.8…

Is Investing In A Used Pellet Mill A Good Idea?

Wood pellet machinery has been a kind of highly efficient equipment in making use of biomass waste ever since its invention and popularization. It was firstly invented for making animal feed from soft crop waste as grass or straw. Later, pellet machinery was improved and able to process such hard biomasses like wood, bamboo, sawdust,…

Biomass: The Sustainable, Renewable Fuel Choice

At Hi Tech Agro Energy Pvt. Ltd., we talk about biomass fuels a lot. If you are curious what qualifies as a biomass fuel, we’ve compiled this primer to answer that question and more. What is Biomass? In the context of biomass for energy the term is often used to mean plant based material, but…

BIO-COAL – An Eco Friendly Solid Fuel

India is one of the nations who have accepted that they shall adopt National Policies and take corresponding measures on the mitigation of climate change by limiting its anthropogenic omission of green house gases & protecting and enhancing its green house sinks and reservoirs. BIO-COAL densified solid fuel from renewal agricultural and forest residues are…

Need for Pelletizing

India with different agro climatic regimes does produce more than 250 million tons surplus Agro Residues annually. This is either not utilized at all or utilized sub optimally. Equal amount of other biomass gets wasted and results in severe environmental degradation. Processing capacity of even 200 million tons of biomass in 10 years, will not…