Pellet Production

Concept: produce pellets from abundant biomass. This is a multi-billion dollar market local economy option, and can get major buy-in from any community development organization. It is carbon neutral in the traditional sense, and carbon negative if pellets are turned to biochar for agricultural practices. A turnkey system would consist of:

• Hammermill/chopper for taking in any source of biomass. minor hammermilling is required with straw or hay feedstock
• Pelletizer

If automated, agricultural residue comes in on one side, pellets come out the other.

• Char maker - produces char pellets
• Gasoline engine - runs on char gas via a gasifier

This simple device is equivalent to exxon megarefineries, and is environmentally much more sound.