Hemp And The Benefits For Fuel Creation
Hemp is a produce, which is constantly shrouded in controversy, so it should be made clear, industrial hemp and marijuana is totally separate plant. Hemp through the ages has been a integral part of human advance. Hemp has conventionally being used for thousands of years to make rope and textiles. For example in ancient China, due to the magnitude of hemp, every farmers was forced to grow hemp along side their central crop. Hemp has many different uses other than to fabricate textile and rope. Hemp is also a food product, can be processed into plastics and interior car panels can also be manufactured from hemp. Hemp is also an ideal energy source, exceptionally in pellet form.
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Hemp is a fantastically fast growing biomass substance, it only grows for 3 months of the years, and returns superior yields than all other wood species and many other biomass energy resources such as switchgrass and miscanthus. Not only is hemp a faster growing biomass than these other materials, it is also a better fuel. Not all biomass fuel sources burn the same, different types of biomass produce different amounts of ash, corrosion and clinker and slag formations. These obviously create issues during burning and therefore most pellet stoves and boilers cannot handle many biomass fuels. Hemp on the other hand is very different. Hemp produces very low ash content, is none corrosive and does not cause issues such as clinker and slag formations in the burn chamber. It is consequently very easy to make a high quality fuel from a very fast growing biomass feedstock. The best way to take advantage of hemp as a fuel source is to upgrade the hemp into pellets.
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Hemp pellets are simply a squashed form of the original hemp feedstock. Through pressure and heat the hemp is changed into pellets. These pellets have a much higher density, and therefore much higher combustion efficiency. This increased combustion efficiency means far less smoke and ash is made during and after incineration. The pellets can also be manufactured on small sized equipment, meaning the whole process of growing the hemp and processing can take place locally. Keeping the cycle regional is not only beneficial in terms of less transport and cheaper fuel prices, it also benefits the natural environment. As less transportation means less CO2 is placed into the atmosphere. Hemp over the next few years should be taken more seriously as the essential resource it truly is. Currently in many countries growing industrial hemp is still illegal based on propaganda banning the plant from the wood industry as it was a superior product in the paper industry.
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