making more wood available
Pellet plants are usually large fixed installations, sited in places where there is a large concentration of wood – such as large sawmills. A 25,000 tonne per year plant with a 20 year design life would need 500,000 dry tonnes of wood to make construction worthwhile.
By operating a cost effective small plant Biojoule can make use of smaller reservoirs of feedstock. This alone increases the amount of wood that can be used.
In many cases the wood resource will be too small to even justify one full time Biojoule plant. This might happen during forestry management operations or site clearing. In this case Biojoule will bring a plant to the operational site, process the wood that is available, and then take the plant away. Around 4,000-5,000 dry tonnes is all that is needed to make a plant move worthwhile.