Every family is facing the problem of heating the house. With the increase in the price of natural gas, fuel oil and electricity. More and more people are expressing their interest in renewable sources of wood-burning fuels and wood pellets. How do you know when to switch from one heating source to another? Here Vlux Vietnam offers you some advice.
Wood pellets
Wood pellets
Wood pellets are a by-product of the wood industry. It includes wood shavings, sawdust, forestry waste or agricultural waste. Raw materials need to be dried first and then crushed by a wood crusher, compressed between the roller and die in a wood pellet mill under high temperature and high pressure to make compact fuel pellets and uniformity. After drying and high pressure, the burning value of the material is increased. The moisture content of wood pellets ranges from 5% to 10%.
Firewood
Firewood is used as fuel for heating
Firewood is the branch or trunk of a tree that has been cut down. This is a natural material with high moisture content, the burning value varies with the species of firewood as well as the moisture content. For every 1% increase in humidity, the heat value decreases by about 1%. Firewood produces plastic when burned. Therefore, the moisture content of the firewood must be 25% to give a good fire value. However, the firewood on the market has been dried and burned to a smaller size, the firewood needs to be protected from rain and snow for preservation.
Comparison between firewood and wood pellets
Comparing the same volume of firewood with wood pellets, firewood pellets have a larger mass than wood pellets. Therefore, wood pellets are more convenient to transport and store than firewood, with uniform size, so the wood pellets do not need to be processed further. It will save more time and labour when using wood pellets.
A. Health concerns
Smoke from a wood fire often creates fond memories of sitting around a campfire or keeping warm near a fireplace on a cold winter’s day. However, wood smoke is not good for your breathing, gas and fine particles generated from firewood can be harmful to human eyes and respiratory system, and can cause eye burns, runny nose and diseases such as inflammation. bronchi. Modern pellet stoves produce much less smoke than open fireplaces or wood stoves because of their good combustion efficiency.
Using firewood to burn the furnace can affect the respiratory tract
B. Comparative cost
Firewood may be cheaper than the same amount of wood pellets, but for the same amount of heat, there is no big difference between the cost of using pellets and firewood.
Vlux Vietnam provides wood pellets for customers who need to order. If there is any question during the processing of wood pellets.
Contact method to order wood pellets from Vlux Vietnam
For all inquiries about wood pellets consultation, please contact phone number (Whatsapp) (+84) 812887858. Vlux Vietnam will support this in detail, as well as send the most complete quotation of export wood pellets.
