Heat for businesses:
Efficient pellet solutions for business and industry

Rising CO2 costs, legal requirements, or your own sustainability commitments: There are many good reasons to switch to green heat with wood pellets. For private and public companies, proven and secure pellet systems are available, regardless of whether the heat generated is used for heating buildings, i.e., as room heat and for hot water, or as process heat for thermal processes and manufacturing processes. Despite differences in detail, larger, commercial heat generation systems for wood pellets also feature essential system components such as fuel storage, conveyor system, boiler module, and exhaust system.

Our wood pellets are used in a variety of applications, from public buildings such as schools and kindergartens, sports facilities, hospitals, hotels and restaurants, nurseries and agricultural businesses, to manufacturing and industry. High-performance heat generators and state-of-the-art pellet systems offer not only a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels, but also high energy efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and reliability. With our long-standing expertise in the heating market and experienced partners for planning, plant construction, and operational services, we are at your side with competence.

Pellet boilers and firing systems for wood pellets are available in a wide range of capacities. Whether a single boiler, cascading, or in combination with a peak load boiler: proven and highly efficient system concepts are available for almost every application. While pellet heating systems in multi-family homes or small businesses can usually be implemented on-site by a heating installer, medium and large systems require detailed planning services.

In the larger power range, underfeed furnaces (up to 1 MW) or pusher grate furnaces (for several MW) with efficiencies of over 93 percent are usually used. The retrofitting of existing rust firing systems, e.g. in the sugar or paper industry, has also proven successful. The generation of process heat in the form of steam (saturated steam/pressurized steam) with pressures above 28 bar and temperatures above 230°C is easily possible with pellets. Thanks to intelligent control systems and efficient combustion technologies, modern pellet furnaces operate extremely cleanly and safely meet all environmental requirements.

For many existing properties, such as multi-family homes, commercial buildings, or sales and production halls, a pellet heating system can often be installed in place of an existing oil heating system. The big advantage: It can be integrated directly into the existing heating system - without expensive full energy renovation or radiator replacement.

The space available for heating oil tanks can usually be used to build a pellet storage facility. There are also various solutions for installing the pellet system in manufacturing, where natural gas has been used for process heat so far. 

A pellet system is generally planned according to the principle of short distances: the route from the delivery vehicle to the storage facility and the discharge route from the storage facility to the boiler should be kept as short and straight as possible. The access to the pellet storage and the designated unloading area must be able to withstand the static load of the up to 40 t heavy trucks and provide sufficient maneuvering space. 

Depending on the storage size and fuel requirements, two methods are available for delivering the pellets: for smaller and medium-sized plants, delivery is usually by a silo truck with injection technology. For large plants with high throughput, on the other hand, delivery by tipping or sliding floor vehicles and dumping the pellets into a hopper can be advantageous. This results in significantly shorter unloading times and specifically low logistics costs.

Separate heating units and storage modules offer an attractive and uncomplicated way to use wood pellets. These are offered as single- and double-deck modules or as multiple modules by leading heating manufacturers - individually configurable and fully equipped. 

The cost-effective system design makes it easy and quick to set up container solutions. By relocating the heating and storage space from the existing buildings, they offer a space-efficient solution - without a large construction site or a longer interruption of the production processes.

For manufacturing and industry, such as breweries, the food, pharmaceutical, or paper industries, process steam generators designed specifically for the use of wood pellets provide the required steam in the desired quality and quantity.

The spectrum ranges from low-pressure steam boilers, saturated steam systems, to hot and high-pressure steam boilers, as well as specialized thermal oil systems.

Modern wood pellet steam generators are characterized by efficient and reliable operation. Intelligent control and monitoring systems make it possible to handle rapid load fluctuations in a very flexible and stable manner. A high degree of automation and low maintenance requirements contribute to excellent availability, high thermal efficiency, and reliable energy supply. Attractive subsidies are also available for process heat.