What to do before starting your new pellet mill machines?

1. Before running, check and tighten the bolts of the roller ends in order to avoid the breaking of
the roller caused by the nuts, which are falling down into the material. Inspect other parts to
avoid looseness or missing parts.

2. A new die must be properly ground. Please grind in before the first operation. The oily
mixture is made up of 10 kg fine sand, 32 kg biomass material (sawdust) and 8 kg of used engine
oil.

Grinding-in procedures

a. Place a bucket under the discharge outlet. The collected material can be used to preheat the
pellet mill successively.

b. Start-up.

c. Put the proper amount of oily mixture into the mill.

d. Continue to pour the oily mixture in and let it run through the pelletizing holes.

e. Use again the oily mixture in a recycling manner for 40-60 minutes.
 Oily materials and the pellets made of it

1. Adjust the clearance between the die and the rollers, shown in the following picture. Release
the locking bolt before introducing material to the pellet mill. Screw the fixing nut in a clockwise
direction until it cannot be tightened and then screw with the wrench in counter-clockwise by
15°-30°. Later, tighten the locking bolt at last.

2. Before running the machine, adjust the clearance between the feed scraper and the flat die to
be around 10 mm, the optimal distance. The feed stock should be fed on the lighting of the
running button which may take a relatively longer time because of the large power motor to
ensure the good performance of the pellet mill.

3. Preheat the pellet mill before pelletizing.

Preheating method: Insert the oily mixture into the pellet mill in order to preheat the die above
50 degrees Celsius.

Oily mixture proportion: Take 5-10 kg biomass materials and mix it evenly with 10 % of used
engine oil.

Preheating procedures:
a. Place a bucket under the discharge outlet so that the material can be collected and put back
into the pellet mill several times to preheat the pellet mill.

b. Starting up the pellet mill.

c. The amount of oily mixture in the pellet mill must never exceed the full load of the hopper.

d. When the vapor shows above the feeding hopper, it means the temperature in the pelletizing
chamber is rising. When the discharged pellets are well-formed with certain hardness, it means
the die had been enough heated to produce pellets continuously.

4. Before stop the pellet mill, the oily mixture should be fed into the pellet mill to fill the die
holes of the pellet mills for the sake of future running of the pellet mill.