Grass Pellet Stoves

Unfortunately, grass pellet stoves are non existent in the world right now. Grass pellets are said to leave an extremely high content of ash after the burning process, which clogs up the stove parts inside of wood and corn pellet stoves. The world is still a bit behind with this new biofuel, which means the technology is still behind too. Experiments are in the works, but funding is a problem and could very well be the only problem for many years. Nothing about grass pellets is bad; we just need the right people who control the money to open their eyes to this renewable fuel resource.

Grass Pellet Stove Manufacturers

Like I said, the technology hasn’t sped up to the whole grass pellet theory. Currently there are no manufacturers who specifically design and create stoves capable of handling grass pellets. There are a few stoves however that have proven to work efficiently enough to make this process go smoother. Bixby Energy’s Maxfire corn stove, Harman’s corn stove and CountryFlames’ corn stove have all been used in tests to burn grass successfully. The problem with the grass pellets is the ash content left behind. Wood pellet stoves are not capable of handling these pellets. The parts get clogged and it just proves to be more work keeping them clean and useable. Corn stoves on the other hand were originally designed to handle high contents of ash, so they’ve become a natural choice during testing.

Cornell University

If anyone is going to make things happen with grass pellets, it’s the researchers at Cornell University. They are actually the ones doing the research with the different stoves available on the market, testing and deciding which ones would best fit this new fuel. Professor Jerry Cherney, a forage specialist said “This isn’t cool biotechnology or nanotechnology, and doesn’t have a political lobby backing it up, so its hard to find the funding needed to make this practical on either the production end (where pelleting devices are needed) or on the consumption end (where appropriate stoves or other burners are necessary).

As time goes on and studies continue to show just how reliable grass pellets can be, the funding to produce this technology will eventually be available. It’s just a waiting game until then.

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