The future of wood pellets

 The future of wood pellets

 

Wood pellets (WP) began to be produced. There is a high probability that there will be a flood of supply in both domestic and foreign countries which could lower prices. Check international prices here and side pictures), Importers from LN are starting to impose barriers to find the best WP, but cheaper prices. Therefore, it is time for WP entrepreneurs to complete their businesses with:

1.      To supply WP to coal-fired power plants to replace coal partially / completely (signing the MoU with coal-fired power plants).

2.      Build a wood pellet power plant (PLTPk; PLTBm = biomass; for example in Japan) in the local area around the WP factory.

3.      Planting fast-harvesting trees, which can grow and are of good quality in critical / ex-mining land (tin, coal, gold, zircon, copper, nickel, etc.) for quality WP materials, such as red calliandra (stove fire approaching blue).

4.      Promote the socialization of the use of WP & the stove (paid / paid in installments) to the public (as a substitute for the 3 kg CNG LPG which is difficult to find at this time). The community around the WP Factory is prioritized to buy WP at factory prices.

 

This is intended to stabilize the price of WP as well as to produce national electricity and to create new jobs needed by the people around the WP factory, for example:

•        PT Austral Byna built a 100MW PLTPk (every 10MW costs IDR 150 billion) in Mantuil Banjarmasin, Muara Teweh (North Barito Regency), Central Kalimantan, and East Kalimantan.

•        PT PLNE (Prima Jasa Nasional Enjinering) signed a kerma (MoU) with the District, Morowali, Central Sulawesi, to build a 10MW PLTBm (cost Rp. 30 billion in 2 years, FS 6 months) with red calliandra which is widespread in Morowali (200Ha) .

•        PT EMI (Energy Management Indonesia) built a PLTPk of around 5-10MW (WP KM energy: 4,800kKal, bioarang ~ 7,500kKal) in Purworejo, Central Java (with a factory area of ​​10 Ha) using WP from KM with a capacity of 36,000 tons / year. WP waste / ash can still be fertilizer for the restoration of vast peatlands in Indonesia (4th in the world). PLTPk is developed in several locations in Indonesia. Raw materials (KM) are obtained from the people of Wonosobo, Magelang, Kebumen, to Banyumas.

•        The Korindo Group plans to build a 10MW PLTBm (wood pellet) in Jayapura, Papua. Korindo's subsidiary, PT Tunas Sawaerma, collaborates with the Papua Provincial Government and the Jayapura Regency Government, by requesting a concession area of ​​12,000Ha of around 7,200Ha for HTI (Industrial Plantation Forest, in the form of Eucalyptus Pellita and Jabon Merah trees handled by PT Biomassa Papua Lestari) and PLTBm (by PT Bio Green Jayapura). However, they ran into customary land, and had yet to reach an agreement with the local community.

 

Indonesia Wood Pellet Prices (varies according to supply & demand):

 

Home Affairs (factory price, Ex-Works) ($ 115-125)

1. • Jakarta Rp.1700 / kg,

2. • Banten Rp. 1600 / kg

3. • West Java Rp. 1600 / kg,

4. • Central Java Rp. 1600 / kg

5. • East Java Rp. 1550 / kg.

Overseas Wood Pellet Prices : FOB $ 140 / ton; CIF $ 160 / ton

Wood Pellet Processing Hazards

When you produce WP, also pay attention to things related to the health and safety of workers:

1.      1.Wood pellet dust hazard at the factory site,

2.      The danger of CO gas poisoning in WP storage (silos, hoppers, open spaces); and

3.      Fire hazard in WP factories, power plants, etc.

 

Take advantage of Biomass Waste to be WP Around You

 

•        Take advantage of all waste of worthless agricultural products, for example corn cobs & stalks, cassava stalks, bagasse (4476kcal / kg), bamboo (4105kcal / kg), rice husks & stalks, empty oil palm bunches, twigs, litter, sawdust, peanut shells soil (4644kcal / kg), brown skin, sengon buto (3948kCal / kg, water content 14.21%, ash content 1.08%), etc.

• •        If you want to clear land, chop the available wood waste and then press it into a WP, as additional income for you (as fuel for domestic PLTBm / PLTU coal, exported to foreign countries, fuel for household stoves, restaurants, culinary centers, etc.); not by burning the forest that would spread smoke all over the world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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