Portable pellet mill For wood pellet making, Hole-In-One Enterprises offers a new portable pellet mill that can be taken right to the biomass pile. This one tonne/hour system comes complete with chipper, dryer, cooler, and bagger, and is designed to fit on a low-bed flatbed trailer. Precision engineering ensures that strict pellet standards are met, providing market-ready product. Marketing for this production plant is from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Complete information is available from the Canadian/U.S. distributor, Hole-In-One Enterprises. Holein1@mts.net Peterson chips for short-fibre apps Growing numbers of specialized biomass applications require short-fibre, thin wood chips. These include the wood pellet industry, co-firing with coal, and certain gasification processes. Peterson’s 5900 chipper and 5000H model delimber debarker chipper can now be readily adapted To produce uniform chips 0.25 inches (6 to 7 mm) long and 0.08 inches (2 mm) thick. Wood chips need to be a consistent thickness for uniform process control in a digester or dryer. Short fibre length is important if the chips will be further reduced in a hammermill. If low bark and ash are a requirement, the Peterson 5000H can achieve less than 1% bark content in many conditions. The Peterson 4800 stand-alone flail debarker can also be paired with the 5900 disc chipper for low-bark applications. Www.petersoncorp. com,1-541-689-6520 Resources in a separate machine. The attachment requires about four hours to install and is compatible with the Vermeer Series II Duplex Drum. The cutting mechanism is removed from the drum hammers, and a series of 10 rings, which provide depth control, are mounted to the outside of the drum and secured to the existing drum hammers. A total of 20, 5 x 3.5-inch (12.7 x 8.9-cm), double-sided knives are then attached to the rings in a staggered pattern. Operators can select specialized screens and adjust the intake speed to help fine-tune the material size, shape, and quality. Www.vermeer.com Produce sawdust without the saw To meet the growing demand for minuscule wood fibre, Bandit Industries has developed technology that allows a quarter-inch or less sawdust-type material, called bio-sawdust, to be produced from debarked roundwood in a single pass. Benefits of this new system include good fuel efficiency, high production levels in pellet mills, and the po- Acrowood Corp 17 Beltran Technologies, Inc 5 Brunette Industries 22 Buhler, Inc 6 Comact, Inc 18 Dieffenbacher 11 European Biomass Conference and Exhibition 25 First Union Rail 7 Ground Worx Doppstadt 31 Hurst Boiler 2 Ideal Combustion 19 Jansen Boiler 12 Keith Mfg 21 Morbark 10 Ponsse North America 32 Teaford Canada 15 Wellons FEI Corp 26 West Salem Machinery 26 World Bioenergy 28 AD INDEX tential for expansion into biofuel and bioelectricity production. When producing bio-sawdust, the chipping operation generally yields better than 95% acceptable material (quarter-inch or less) in one pass. Similar results are achieved in regrind applications when processing chips and hogged material. Using a diesel-powered Beast, up to three tons of material can be produced per gallon of diesel fuel consumed. The wood fibres are cut, not fractured. Pellet operations in British Columbia receiving material from the Beast are reporting a 10 to 12% increase in production at the pellet mills compared to material from other grinders. Www.banditchippers.com, 1-800-952-0178