Pellets In the bagging room, a friendly squirrel smiles from a 15 kg paper bag. – We try to be consistent with our choice of packaging material for our renewable fuel, commented Roberto Bravo on the choice to use paper bags instead of plastic bags though he added that it is not easy to find suitable materials that perform well. Supplied by Italian company PKT the bagger takes sacks using suction cups, places it for filling and sews it closed. On the palletiser the bags are stacked and shrink-wrapped with protective plastic. Bioenergy International Internat ional No 81, 5-2015 23 bulk loading area is located in an enclosed tunnel and is equipped with an automatic filling system so that there is no pollution and the driver does not have to do anything. The loading silo for trucks is 160 m³, equivalent to 100 tonnes of pellets. The load is controlled by the operator in the control room, activating the outlets of the silo to automatically detect the incoming truck. The average filling time is 20–25 minutes per 25 tonne truck, a rate that prevents damage to the product. Financing The total budget for the pellet plant project amounted to around EUR 10 million. The Agricultural Technological Institute of Castilla and Leon, Itacyl, has helped with funding, and the remainder was contributed by the two partners. Text & photos: Ana Sancho BI81/4820/JH
Bioenergy no 5 September 2015
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