Biomass Pellet Production Line
Looking for a reliable biomass pellet production line? RICHI Machinery specializes in complete pelletizing solutions for wood chips, agricultural waste, and energy crops. With over 30 years of experience serving 140+ countries, we deliver customized production lines from equipment supply to installation and training. Transform your biomass materials into high-quality fuel pellets for heating, power generation, and industrial applications. Contact us today for expert consultation and tailored solutions that maximize your production efficiency and profitability.
What is a biomass pellet production line?
Biomass pellet production line is designed for manufacturing biomass pellets from any type of raw materials，such as wood chips, rice husks, straws, grasses, bamboos, etc.In general, the manufacturing process of a biomass pellet manufacturing plant includes 5 steps: crushing, drying, pelletizing, cooling, packaging. Of course it can be customized by your requirements, such as you can decide to choose fully automatic types, semi-automatic type.
- Capacity: 1-30T/H
- Final pellet diameter: 6-12mm
- Raw materials: Alfalfa, straws, sawdust, grasses, wood chips, etc.
Project video of biomass pellet production line
- Project Background: Located in Canada, this project involves the client utilizing abundant local biomass resources such as sawdust and wood shavings to build a small-to-medium-sized fuel pellet production line for the stable production of biomass pellet fuel for heating and industrial applications.
- Country: Canada
- Capacity: 2–2.5 tons/hour
- Project Timeline: 2024
- Pellet Size: 6–8 mm biomass fuel pellets
- Core Equipment List: Wood shredder, mixer, biomass pellet mill, cooler, vibrating screen, automatic packaging machine, etc.
- Production Process Flow: Raw material cleaning → Crushing → Mixing → Pelleting → Cooling → Screening → Packaging
- Customer Feedback: “This biomass pellet production line is very stable. The pellets produced are well-formed and have high density, fully meeting local fuel standards. The entire line is automated, which is worry-free and easy to maintain. Not only is the current production capacity sufficient, but there’s also room for future expansion.”
Biomass Pellet Production Lines We Can Customize
Different clients have vastly different output requirements for biomass pellet production lines. Therefore, we conduct customized planning during the design phase based on raw material type, site conditions, and actual usage needs. We can provide biomass fuel pellet production line capacities ranging from 1 ton/hour to 40 tons/hour, flexibly matching both small-scale start-up projects and continuous, high-capacity production. If you are planning a biomass pellet project, simply tell us your main raw materials and desired output scale, and we can design a suitable production plan for you.
Straw pellet production line
The straw pellet production line can process straws into straw pellets. Straw pellets have a lot of advantages, such as renewable, low pollution, economical, etc.
Alfalfa pellet production line
The alfalfa pellet production line is designed for manufacturing alfalfa pellets, lucrene pellets. The alfalfa pellets is not only a type of biomass pellets but also the cattle feed pellets.
Bamboo pellet production line
Bamboo pellet lines can process waste bamboo, bamboo chips, etc into bamboo pellets. The bamboo pellet is a new type of biomass pellets, is environment-friendly.
Sawdust pellet production line
The sawdust pellet production line mainly includes raw materials preparation, crushing, drying, pelletizing, cooling and packing. The sawdust pellets are sustainable, environment-friendly.
Grass pellet plant
The grass pellet plant is designed for process grass into high-density grass pellets. It is consist of grass cutting and crushing, drying system, pelletizing system, cooling system and packing system.
Rice husk pellet plant
The equipment required to make rice husk pellets are hammer mill crusher, rice husk pellet machine, cooling machine, rice husk pellet packing machine. All the process equipment of RICHI Machinery are of high-quality.
Advantages of biomass pellet production line
- Can process various biomass materials into biomass pellets, such as the agriculture and forestry wastes, crop stalks, grasses, and etc
- Turning the waste into treasure. The production of biomass pellets can not only promote the solve of environment pollution but also making good use of the earth’s resources.
- Can be used in biomass pellet plant on various scales. The produced biomass pellets can not only be used to burning as fuel, but also can be used to generate steam and electricity.
- Can produce many kinds of biomass pellets, such as straw pellets, wood pellets, rice husk pellets, grass pellets.
After understanding the advantages of biomass pellet production lines, you may wonder how these systems perform in real-world applications. Below are successful project cases from our global clients, showcasing how we’ve helped businesses across different countries achieve their biomass pellet production goals. These examples demonstrate our expertise in designing, installing, and commissioning production lines tailored to each client’s specific requirements and local conditions.
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Biomass Pellet Production Line Project Cases
For over 30 years, we have focused on the research and development and manufacturing of biomass pellet production equipment. Our products have been successfully exported to more than 140 countries and regions worldwide, and we have completed hundreds of large, medium, and small-scale biomass pellet production line projects. From small-scale 1 ton/hour production lines to large-scale 20 tons/hour and above, we have accumulated rich practical experience. Below are some successful case studies showcasing our professional strength and outstanding performance in the global biomass energy field.
5 T/H Rice Husk Pellet Production Line in Thailand
Project Background: In 2024, we built a 5-ton/hour rice husk pellet production line for a rice processing company in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The client wanted to convert rice husks into pellet fuel for local factories and households, while also exporting it to East Asian markets such as Japan and South Korea.
Production Line Details
- Country: Thailand
- Date: May 2024
- Output: 5 tons/hour
- Equipment List: Drying system, hammer mill, twin-shaft mixer, two SZLH350 ring die pellet mills, counter-current cooler, vibrating screen, 25kg bag packaging machine, conveying system, dust removal system
- Customer Testimonial: “Our rice husk pellets have been successfully exported to Japan and South Korea, receiving a very positive market response.”
8 t/h Sugarcane Bagasse Pellet Production Line in Brazil
Project Background: This client is a large sugar mill that generates a large amount of sugarcane bagasse waste annually. Traditionally, this bagasse is directly burned to generate electricity, but this method is inefficient and highly polluting. The client wants to process the bagasse into high-density pellets to improve combustion efficiency for use in the sugar mill’s own boiler heating.
Production Line Details
- Country: Brazil
- Date: September 2023
- Output: 8 tons/hour
- Raw Material: Sugarcane bagasse (bagasse fiber)
- Site Area: 800 square meters
- Installation Period: 30 days
- Number of Workers Required: 3
10 T/H Wood Pellet Production Line in the USA
Project Background: This client is a large forestry company located in the United States, owning multiple sawmills and generating large quantities of waste such as wood chips and shavings daily. The client invested in building a pellet production line to process waste wood chips into high-quality wood pellets to supply the North American residential heating and industrial boiler markets.
Project Details
- Country: USA
- Date: June 2023
- Output: 10 tons/hour
- Raw Materials: Pine wood chips, shavings, sawdust, etc.
- Customization Required: Yes (Customized 40kg bagged + bulk dual packaging system)
- Site Area: 500 square meters
- Installation Period: 35 days (from equipment delivery to commissioning)
- Number of Workers Required: 3-5 people
20 T/H Wood Pellet Production Line in Bangladesh
Project Background: This client plans to acquire waste wood chips from local furniture factories and wood processing plants, processing them into pellet fuel for industrial boilers and power plants.
Production Line Details
- Country: Bangladesh
- Date: February 2024
- Output: 20 tons/hour
- Raw Materials: Mixed hardwood chips, rubberwood waste, furniture factory scraps, etc.
- Equipment List: Rotary drum dryer, SFSP66×80 hammer mill, mixer, 3 SZLH558 ring die pellet mills, counter-current cooler, packaging machine, etc.
- Site Area: 1300 square meters
- Installation Period: 45 days
- Number of Workers Required: 8-10 people
(The client needs to control costs as much as possible; this line is a low-end, relatively inexpensive biomass pellet production line.)
Features of biomass pellet production line
- High production efficiency, low power consumption
- Equipped with anti-caking feeder, to ensure the raw materials enter the machine smoothly
- The biomass pellets have a wide applications in various fields
- Easy operation and maintenance
- Can process various raw materials into biomass pellets, such as waste biomass, cotton seed, hemp, straw, hemp, and etc.
- With reasonable technology, the biomass pellet plant is easy to install, the installation of small biomass pellet line only needs 1-2 persons.
- It has wide capacity scale. The production capacity of this line ranges from 1-40T/H. If you want larger capacity, we can also customize one for you.
High-quality configuration
Every equipment in the line is made of high-grade materials, such as the biomass pelletizer, it uses the novel design, most advanced technology, to ensure the pelletizing effect of biomass pellets. RICHI biomass pelletizers adopt SKF bearings and Siemens motors, and the feeder, conditioner, and ring die are made of stainless steel.
Professional design
Our technical team consists of 20 people, all of whom are experienced, professional. Just like our engineer Dollar, he has been biomass pellet industry for 8 years, have designed more than 1000 biomass pellet lines, and received favorable comments from customers.
Customized process plan
RICHI designed every production lines for customers of different needs. Such the drying system and crushing system, it is vary from different raw materials. Some raw materials are powdered and dried, don’t need to be crushed and dried. Our analysis of your pelletizing plant, size and raw materials will help you customize the best solution for you.
Biomass pellets manufacturing process
A complete biomass pellet production line includes core processes such as raw material pretreatment, crushing and drying, mixing and conditioning, pelleting, cooling and screening, conveying and packaging. Through a scientific process flow and specialized equipment configuration, various biomass raw materials such as sawdust, straw, and rice husks can be converted into high-density, high-calorific-value, and easily stored and transported clean energy pellets.
- Technological procedure: Raw Material Collection → Raw Material Screening → Crushing → Drying → Mixing → Granulation → Cooling → Screening → Conveying → Packaging
- Equipment needed process: Raw Material Storage Silo → Vibrating Screener → Hammer Mill Crusher → Rotary Dryer → Mixer → Biomass Pellets Making Machine → Counter-flow Cooler → Vibrating Screen → Screw Conveyor & Bucket Elevator → Automatic Packing Machine
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Raw Material Collection
Collect various biomass raw materials, including sawdust, wood chips, bark, straw, rice husks, peanut shells, corn cobs, and other agricultural and forestry waste, and perform preliminary classification and quality inspection.
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Raw Material Screening
Perform preliminary screening and cleaning of the collected raw materials, removing oversized materials, stones, soil, metal foreign objects, and other impurities to ensure uniform material size.
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Crushing Process
Crush the screened raw materials to a suitable pelleting size (usually 3-5mm). For wood materials, use a wood chipper and hammer mill; for straw materials, use a straw crusher.
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Drying Process
Dry the raw materials to the optimal moisture content for pelleting. Excess moisture is quickly removed using hot air to ensure effective pelleting.
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Mixing Process
Mix the different raw materials evenly. If necessary, adjust the moisture and temperature using a conditioner to create ideal conditions for pelleting.
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Pelletizing Process
The core process. The conditioned material is extruded under high pressure in a pelletizer to form dense cylindrical pellets, typically 6-12mm in diameter and 15-30mm in length.
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Cooling Process
The pellets exiting the pellet mill are 80-90℃ hot and must be rapidly cooled to room temperature to harden and set.
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Screening Process
The cooled pellets are graded and screened to remove oversized, undersized, broken, or powdery particles, ensuring consistent finished product quality.
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Conveying Process
Materials are efficiently conveyed between the various equipment. Powdered materials are conveyed using screw conveyors, while granular materials are conveyed using bucket elevators and belt conveyors.
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Packing Process
Qualified biomass pellets are weighed according to standard specifications using an automatic packaging scale, bagged, sealed, and then printed with the production date and batch number.
The main equipment of Biomass Pellet Production Line
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One of the core pieces of equipment — biomass pellet making machine
The biomass pellet mill not only can be used for producing biomass pellets but also can be used for the production and processing of wood pellets.
RICHI MZLH series biomass pelletizer machine with automatic control system, ensures the stability of the equipment and improve the quality of pelletizing products. The features of the RICHI biomass pellet machine are:
- Easy to operate, save the labor consumption
- High production capacity with less power consumption
- Adopt gear transmission, has higher efficiency, and its capacity is 15% higher than that of the belt type.
- Equipped with anti-caking bins and forced feeder, it perfectly solves the problem that the biomass materials are light, poorly flowing and difficult to enter the pelletiizng chamber.
- Equipped with safety pins, to protect from overloading.
Here are the parameters of our biomass pellet making machine. If you don’t know how to choose, just contact us directly.
| Model | MZLH320 |
|---|---|
| Capacity(T/H) | 0.2-0.3 |
| Main Motor Power(KW) | 22 |
| Main Motor Series | 6/8P |
| Ring Die Diameter (mm) | 320 |
| Finished Pellet Diameter (mm) | 4~12 |
| Model | MZLH350 |
|---|---|
| Capacity(T/H) | 0.3-0.5 |
| Main Motor Power(KW) | 37 |
| Main Motor Series | 6/8P |
| Ring Die Diameter (mm) | 350 |
| Finished Pellet Diameter (mm) | 4~12 |
| Model | MZLH420 |
|---|---|
| Capacity(T/H) | 1.0-1.2 |
| Main Motor Power(KW) | 90 |
| Main Motor Series | 6/8P |
| Ring Die Diameter (mm) | 420 |
| Finished Pellet Diameter (mm) | 4~12 |
| Model | MZLH520 |
|---|---|
| Capacity(T/H) | 1.5-2.0 |
| Main Motor Power(KW) | 132 |
| Main Motor Series | 6/8P |
| Ring Die Diameter (mm) | 520 |
| Finished Pellet Diameter (mm) | 4~12 |
| Model | MZLH678 |
|---|---|
| Capacity(T/H) | 2.5-3.0 |
| Main Motor Power(KW) | 185 |
| Main Motor Series | 6/8P |
| Ring Die Diameter (mm) | 673 |
| Finished Pellet Diameter (mm) | 4~12 |
| Model | MZLH768 |
|---|---|
| Capacity(T/H) | 3.0-4.0 |
| Main Motor Power(KW) | 250 |
| Main Motor Series | 6/8P |
| Ring Die Diameter (mm) | 762 |
| Finished Pellet Diameter (mm) | 4~12 |
(Note: RICHI Machinery’s products are always updated and improved. Therefore, if there is any difference between the pictures, feature descriptions and performance parameters of the actual model, please refer to the actual product.)
Other major auxiliary equipment
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The main equipment used in the biomass pellet plant are: crusher machine, rotary drum drying machine, counterflow cooling machine, packaging machine, and conveyor equipment, etc.
I’ll introduce each of these machines below.
Biomass hammer mill
The crusher machine can break the raw materials into small sized pellets. RICHI water-drop crusher machine is specific for wood chips, shavings, etc.
Rotary dryer machine
RICHI rotary drum dryer machine is designed to dry the raw materials. It has the features of stable, high efficiency, low consumption and low failure.
Cooling machine
RICHI counterflow cooling machine adopt the principle of advanced counterflow, can cool pellets from 80°C to lightly above the room temperature of 3°C-5°C.
Biomass Mixer
Permeates and evenly mixes different types of biomass raw materials. Binders can be added to improve molding performance.
Vibrating Screening Equipment
Removes substandard particles and powder through vibrating sieving, ensuring consistent finished product specifications.
Screw Conveyor
Used for short-distance horizontal or inclined conveying of powdered biomass raw materials. It features a simple structure and good sealing performance.
Bucket Elevator
Vertically lifts biomass pellets or powder to a high position, saving space and enabling continuous conveying.
Automatic Packing Machine
Automatically weighs, bags, and seals biomass pellets, improving packaging efficiency and reducing labor costs.
Why Choose RICHI Machinery?
RICHI Machinery has been deeply involved in the biomass pellet manufacturing industry for 30 years. Its customers are spread across Europe, America, Africa, Asia Pacific, Middle East and other regions, and its sales network covers more than 140 countries and regions. It has successfully completed more than 1,200 complete sets of pellet projects with a high level of professionalism, making it a recognized leader in the industry.
Efficient and comprehensive after – sales service:
RICHI Machinery has a comprehensive and well – established after – sales service system. It has multiple overseas logistics routes to ensure that machine arrives safely and on time. Later on, if there’s any abnormality with the customer’s machine, we’ll provide after – sales staff to offer preliminary solutions right away. And within 48 hours, we’ll send professional technicians to the site (within China) for service, minimizing the customer’s downtime.
Scientific customized services:
We have a diverse and rich product system. With over 200 products, we can meet the needs of various biomass production customers. The company is equipped with a professional R&D and design team. According to your actual situation, whether it is a small biomass pellet factory or a large industrial biomass pellet factory, we will design personalized solutions for you based on the actual situation.
Excellent equipment quality:
RICHI Machinery has won many international authoritative certifications. The company has passed BV certification, ISO9001 International Quality Management System Certification, European CE Certification, and Swiss SGS Certification, among others. You can find us on YouTube.
