coconut shell pellet mill

Coconut shell or coconut husk is a good source for pellets fuel making. It is the by-product of coconut processing. Previously, coconut shell is often used to make household items for decoration; while its fiber, coir, is used for making rope or matting.

But now coconut shell can be used to produce fuel pellets because mature coconut fiber contains lignin, which is the most important component that makes it suitable for pelletizing. Besides, coconut shell also has relatively high calorific value (heat value). (If you want to produce coconut shell charcoal briquette, please click here.)
 

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For making coconut shell pellets, we need a coconut shell pellet mill. The whole process can be seen below:
Drying—Crushing—Pelletizing—Cooling—Packing

• Coconut shell coir crushing: the coir is fibrous like soft palm fiber, so they are crushed by the same kind of crushing machine.
• Crushed coir drying: the fresh coconut fiber may contain around 15% moisture content or even higher, which is not suitable for direct pelletzing. Therefore, you need to dry it first.
• Pelletizing: usually if you have coconut shell, you must have large quantity of. As a result, you must need large coconut shell pellet mill instead of small pellet mill. We have 3 models of large coconut shell pellet mills for you to choose. If you need larger productivity, we can also parallel several sets together to build a large pellet production line.

• Cooling: the coconut shell pellets just made out by the pellet mill are very hot, so they should be cooled in order to be packed or for use. What’s more, the pellet cooling machine can also sieve the broken pellets.
• Packing: coconut shell pellets can be packed in small bags or large bags for difference selling purposes.

Composition of coconut shell and coconut shell pellets

Advantages of coconut shell pellets

From the above we can see coconut shell pellets have high calorific value, which is almost the same with coal (7000kcal/kg). Therefore, for major coconut planting countries like Indonesia, Philippines, India, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, Tanzania and Ghana, etc., coconut shell pellets are good renewable and environmental friendly fuel sources.

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