The advantages of Pellet boilers
Fully automatic, clean and green heating - that's the point of a pellet boiler. Pellet boilers are ideal because you get a low emission, low pollution boiler, without the hassle associated with wood burning. Some people are quite happy to season, split, store and load split wood logs into a wood boiler or stove, but it certainly isn't for everyone! There are many advantages of pellet boilers; over gas, oil, and other forms of wood fired heating.
Automatic Heating
There are 3 versions of pellet boiler, available in both models - the FireWIN and the BioWIN. Each version
automatically feeds pellets into the boiler to provide heating. The difference is in the amount of maintenance required for each version of
Pellet boiler:
Klassik - Cleaning of the heating surface, ash removal and pellet loading will be needed. If you've had a stove
in the past, this will be ideal if you don't mind a little manual work to keep the boiler going.
Premium - Ash will need removing, and the heating surface need cleaning. This model loads pellets
automatically.
Exklusiv - This model is fully automatic. Pellets are loaded automatically, heating surface is cleaned automatically, and the ash
is removed and compacted automatically.
Clean and Green heating
The pellet boiler is the closest you'll get to both clean and green heating, apart from solar thermal. An excellent addition to make pellet heating greener and cleaner is to incorporate solar thermal into the heating system.
Pellets are made from 100% dry wood residue (sawdust, wood shavings etc) and because of their purity and lack of moisture they burn extremely efficiently. They leave hardly any ash, give off very little smoke, and the processes needed to make the pellets only amounts to 1% - 5% of the pellets energy content.
Wood, being a Carbon neutral fuel is not harmful for the environment. Pellets are much greener compared with other forms of heating. Oil boilers are very efficient, but a lot of pollution is caused when the Oil is extracted and processed, and the same for Gas. Wood burning in other forms, such as burning logs in stoves, varies in it's 'greenness'. If all was ideal, people would burn fully dry split wood logs in high efficiency appliances with adequate ventilation and well insulated high chimneys. The truth is, Wood burning is green when only these conditions are met. People burn wet wood (and painted and treated wood), fires are left to slumber, chimneys and ventilation are sometimes far from perfect, logs often are too big, and there are more uncertainties. All of these things will cause excess smoke to be produced by a wood burning appliance. Pellet boilers are perfect at eliminating all of these problems in one go.
Wood Pellets are all the same (size, quality, moisture content), meaning the fuel will burn efficiently every time.