Agro pellets

• Biofuels
• Solid biomass – pelletized fuel from agricultural biomass
• Renewable energy source based on agro residues and energy crops, with a medium processing level (size reduction, drying, pelletizing)

Energy systems

In energy systems, agro pellets are used as fuel in biomass boiler plants, heating plants, and cogeneration units optimized for agricultural biomass combustion. Typical applications include:

• district heating systems in agricultural and rural regions, where locally available straw and crop residues are pelletized into a standardized energy carrier;
• cogeneration plants using agro pellets for combined generation of electricity and heat for district heating networks or larger industrial consumers;
• heating and power plants operating on mono‑fuel agro pellets or in co‑firing mode with wood pellets, wood chips, or other biomass fuels.

Such plants require adapted burners and grates, careful temperature control in the furnace, and advanced flue‑gas cleaning systems (multicyclones, electrostatic precipitators, bag filters) to limit slagging, fouling, and corrosion caused by higher ash and mineral content. Agro pellets are typically supplied in bulk, stored in silos or storage halls, and fed to boilers through automated mechanical or pneumatic conveying systems.

Industry

In industrial applications, agro pellets are used to generate process heat and steam in medium‑ and large‑scale steam and hot‑water boilers, particularly in sectors connected with agriculture and food processing. Typical uses include:

• food and agro‑food industries (grain, oilseed, fruit and vegetable dryers, thermal treatment processes), where agro pellets provide steam and hot water;
• agro‑industrial complexes and farms (crop drying and storage, feed processing, livestock facilities) that convert their own agro residues into pellets for in‑house boiler plants;
• other industrial boiler houses in regions with abundant agricultural residues, where switching to agro pellets is an economically viable alternative or supplement to fossil fuels (coal, heavy fuel oil, natural gas).

Boiler systems are designed to cope with higher ash loads and deposit formation, using grate or moving‑grate furnaces or fluidized‑bed combustion, along with appropriate combustion control and materials resistant to high temperatures and chemically aggressive flue‑gas components.