The ÖkoFEN Pellematic comes complete with a choice of large scale pellet stores, with capacities suitable to hold a year's supply of fuel, and a fully automated feed system direct to the boiler - either auger or vacuum.

If you chose an Ökofen boiler it comes with a bulk fuel store made from steel reinforced fabric on a sustainable wooden frame, into which the delivery lorry blows the pellets. This style of store has a number of advantages… Namely, it acts as its own dust filter when the pellets are delivered; it can ...

It never ceases to amaze me that my home can be heated by a handful of continuous burning wood pellets! Super compressed sawdust is all that they are – with the natural lignin in the wood acting as a glue to stick them together. Because they are small and uniform in size (6mm diameter and ...

Yes, as the name implies, these are chips of wood! They are the cheapest form of biomass fuel suitable for large-scale automation.

On the face of it, looking at price per tonne, wood chips appear to win hands down. A tonne of wood chip at 30% moisture content will set you back £80-£90, while a tonne of wood pellets will be around £195 per tonne. However, a tonne of wood pellets contains more energy than a tonne ...