FAQs
Charcoal Making Machine
What raw materials can be used to produce biochar/charcoal?
1. Biomass waste: rice husks, coconut shells, palm kernel shells, palm fibre, bamboo, sawdust, olive shells, coffee husks, nut shells, hazelnut shells, oak, jute stalks, sugarcane bagasse, peanut shells, sunflower stalks, plant straw, peach pits, etc;
2. Sewage and sludge waste: municipal sludge, river sludge, domestic sludge, etc;
3. Municipal solid waste: Waste battery graphite, cans, waste aluminum and other household waste, industrial waste, electronic waste, etc.
Note: The primary aim of biomass treatment is mainly to produce biochar. Meanwhile, the primary objective of sludge and waste treatment is to achieve waste reduction.
Can various types of biomass feedstock be processed simultaneously in the same machine?
No, it’s not possible. Different types of biomass, sludge, and various waste materials require different carbonization times and temperatures, resulting in different end products. It’s advisable to use different furnaces for different types of feedstock to accommodate the varying temperature requirements.
What are the feedstock requirements?
Size ≤ 20mm (5-8mm is better)，moisture content ≤ 15%.
What is the processing capacity for palm fiber (EFB)?
Palm fiber with a moisture content of 15% has a density of approximately 200 kg/m³. When processed with the BST-50 equipment without pelletizing, the feeding rate is approximately 2 tons per hour. With pelletizing, the feed rate is approximately 4 tons per hour.
If we have a wide variety of raw materials, can your equipment handle them simultaneously?
First, it’s necessary to confirm the category of the raw materials (whether they belong to the same category). They just need to meet the feeding conditions.
What final products can be produced, and what are their application areas?
| Final Product | Usage |
|---|---|
| Charcoal | Further processed into BBQ carbon or activated carbon; Used to make building bricks with clay； To improve soil quality. |
| Wood Vinegar | Used as insecticide; To neutralize pesticides; To improve soil quality. |
| Tar | To melt biodiesel; Widely used in the production of waterproof and anti-corrosion materials. |
| Syn Gas | Used as fuel or for drying; Used to produce electricity; To heat greenhouse plants. |
Final products mention above can be applied into the following field: industrial field, agricultural & forestry field, metal smelting field and carbon credit trading.
Can the combustible gas from carbonization process be recycled? What can be used for?
Clients can use special containers to collect on-site according to requirements. Due to the high calorific value of combustible gas, it can be used for combustion heating, boilers for power generation, etc.
In the case of raw material with 10% moisture content, 30% of final products is charcoal, what is the remaining 70%?
About 51% combustible gas, 8% wood vinegar, 2% tar oil, 7% water, and 2% dust.
How much combustibe gas can be produced?
Theoretically, 0.7kg combustible gas for every 1kg biomass.
How much carbon can be produced?
The carbon yield is related to the temperature and frequency of material carbonization. Our machine adopts frequency conversion control and can be adjusted according to your requirement at any time. Take wood chips, rice husk, or crushed coconut shell as an example, each ton of material with less 10% moisture content, you can get charcoal of 260 kg-310 kg, which basically maintains the carbon yield of 3:1.
What is the material reaction time?
Generally speaking, the whole carbonization process takes 15-25 minutes.
What can be used as heating material? Preheating time?
Diesel, LPG, natural gas, combustible gas from charcoal making machine. 60-90 minutes.
How long does the whole carbonization process take?
About 15-25 minutes.
What is the capacity of charcoal making equipment?
BST-10 Capacity: 2-4m³/h (1000kg/h);
BST-30 Capacity: 7-9m³/h (3000kg/h);
BST-50 Capacity: 10-15m³/h (5000kg/h);
BST-05 Pro Capacity: 0.3-0.5m³/h (300kg/h).
How to increase the charcoal yield?
Reduce the material reaction temperature and shorten the time of material carbonization reaction.
Does the machine meet environmental emission standards?
Yes. However, emission requirements will be somewhat different in different countries/regions. You can send local emission requirements, our technical group will match the appropriate exhaust treatment process according to requirements.
Is the charcoal making machine safe?
It’s safe. Safe production is no small matter, and we have always attached great importance to this issue. The whole carbonization process is in a low oxygen, negative pressure environment, carbonization equipment inside the material itself does not contact with oxygen does not have the conditions of combustion, and the end of the equipment is designed with explosion-proof devices to ensure the safe operation of the equipment.
Can you show me where your equipment is manufactured?
General owners are not very willing to peer to visit his production site, we need to do work for the owners. Our factory has a prototype you can see the complete production equipment, and our prototype also often help customers to do process verification experiments, fully verified material carbonization process and carbonization of the quality of the finished product, to relieve your worries.
What is the price of charcoal making machine?
We are specializing in the production of carbon production equipment, according to your processing capacity needs to match you with different processes and models, the price according to your needs specifically. Generally speaking, BST series starts from $80,000 to $400,000.
What is charcoal making machine utilization and service life?
5,500 – 5,800 hours per year. The service life of carbonization system is about 5-8 years. At the end of the service life, only the gasable system and piping need to be replaced, and the main reactor can continue to be used after it has passed the overhaul.
Pyrolysis Plant
What raw materials can be processed by pyrolysis plant?
1.Plastic Waste: Many types of plastic waste can be converted into fuel oil. Notably, polymers like polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), and polystyrene (PS) are suitable for pyrolysis;
2.Industrial Sludge and Oil Sludge: Sludge from wastewater treatment plants and oil sludge from petroleum industry processes can be treated to recover energy and reduce waste volume;
3.Tires and Rubber Products: End-of-life tires and other rubber products can be processed to recover oils, gases, and carbon black. This not only provides valuable resources but also addresses the environmental issue of tire disposal.
What specific components must not be included in the feedstock for plastic pyrolysis?
Materials such as PVC and chlorine- or oxygen-containing plastics like PET, are not recommended for processing.
PVC contains chlorine, which can produce hydrogen chloride (corrosive to pipes and equipment) during pyrolysis. Pyrolysis oil may contain chlorine, and burning this oil can release dioxins (carcinogenic substances);
PET does not produce oil when pyrolyzed due to its oxygen content; the process releases oxygen, posing safety hazards (the pyrolysis process requires an oxygen-free environment).
Can we pyrolyze plastic and tires at the same time?
Not recommended at the same time, separate treatment of plastics and tires is best. Because plastic cracking is prone to wax oil clogging system, according to the need to support the catalytic tower system, while the tire cracking does not have the above problems; in addition, tire cracking carbon black can be further processed and utilized, while the plastic residue is a general industrial solid waste, mixed cracking residue will reduce the value of the tire cracking carbon black, it is recommended to classify and separate the treatment of the quality and improve the added value of the product.
Feeding requirement for the raw material?
Intermittent feeding: for manual feeding, hydraulic feeding, tire diameter and plastic parcels less than 1.2m can be fed directly (BLJ-6; BLJ-10; BLJ-16); BLJ-3 requires parcel size less than 0.6m.
Spiral feeding: tires ≤ 5cm, plastic ≤ 5cm, moisture 10% or less, BLJ-3 has no spiral feeding solution, for the front slag design.
Catalysts are employed in the catalytic pyrolysis process of plastics for various important reasons:
Catalysts used in the pyrolysis of plastics can effectively solve the problems associated with the dewaxing and liquefaction of plastic waxes and oil sludge waxes. These substances, typically heavy and complex hydrocarbons, can pose significant challenges in processing and refining operations due to their high viscosity and melting points.
What is the oil yield for treating tires and plastics?
Tires in general: 35-45% oil, 30-35% carbon black, 8-15% gas, 8-15% steel wire.
Plastic: mixed with different components of the plastic oil rate is not certain, need to come to the sample test, in general the cleaner or a single plastic, the oil rate of 40-60% (this data is based on pilot data), the oil rate based on the rate of warming and some differences in the laboratory test data between 70-80% oil rate.
Does it produce wastewater, waste particulate matter, oil residue?
The wastewater in the water seal and spray tower can be evaporated off at high temperature in the exhaust burning room and furnace chamber, the residual oil in the residual oil tank can be directly reintroduced into the main furnace for re-cracking or mixed directly into the cracking oil after layering, and the high temperature flue gas emission will meet the standard after exhaust gas treatment, and there will not be any wasted particulate matter discharged.
Do the exhaust emission standards meet standard?
Standard exhaust treatment can only cool down the dust, but we have a high matching exhaust treatment, need to be selected by the customer according to the project location exhaust emission standards, the highest can meet the European emission standards, we recommend that the customer according to their own actual emission standards for selection, there is no need for all the high matching.
What are the usages and sales channels for tyre fuel oil?
Tyre pyrolysis oil can be used as fuel oil for direct combustion, generally sold to glass factories, iron and steel factories, power plants, ceramic factories, cement factories and other energy-consuming households, but also sold to refineries for deep processing to produce commercial diesel fuel, but also can be distilled to get the heavy oil components for heavy oil generator sets for power generation.
Can fuel oil be used to produce diesel fuel?
The fuel oil is further distilled to remove the gasoline component, and the off-specification diesel component obtained can be subjected to subsequent deep processing and blending processes to obtain commercial diesel.
What do I need to know about plastic cracking?
PVC and PET and other similar chlorinated and oxygenated plastics are not recommended for treatment; baling or extruding and pelletizing are recommended for feeding; matching cracking and catalytic towers, special catalysts and catalyst regeneration systems.
How long does the pyrolysis process take?
ntermittent type: BLJ-6 (tire): feeding 2h+preheating 3h+pyrolysis 7-8h+cooling 5h+discharging 2-3 h,total 19-21h
BLJ-10 (tire): feeding 2-3h+preheating 3h+pyrolysis 8-9h+cooling 5h+discharging 2-3 h,total 20-23h
BLJ-16 (tire): feeding 3h+preheating 3h+pyrolysis 10-11h+cooling 6h+discharging 3h,total 25-26h Plastic and sludge materials can be extended by 3-4h with reference to the tire processing time. + cooling 6h + discharging 3 h, total 25-26h
Plastic and sludge raw materials can refer to the tire processing time to extend the pyrolysis time appropriately 3-4h
Semi-automatic: BLL-16 (tire pellets): feed 2h + preheating 3h + pyrolysis 8h + cooling 3h + discharge 3h, total 19h 56h to meet the processing capacity of 3 batches
What kind of fuel can all be used and what is the consumption?
Natural gas, diesel fuel, and heavy oil are all available. Consumption specifically depends on the model. General natural gas burners are more expensive, heavy oil and diesel burners to 400,000 calories, a single fuel consumption of 40-50L / h.
How to treat wastewater generated during the pyrolysis process?
1. Into the main furnace to re-react;
2. Connecting the water pipe to the exhaust burning room plus nozzle combustion
3. Centralized collection and entrusted to external sewage treatment system treatment.
Water consumption for equipment production and operation?
16 tons of water consumption in 0.5-1 tons / day, BLL-30 full continuous water mainly cooling water evaporation 3 tons / day.
Pyrolysis plant life, warranty and installation costs?
5-8 years, at which point you just need to replace the main furnace and a few wear parts; One year, but we offer lifetime technical service and free software system upgrades; Online installation 50$/day, offline installation 100$/day, at the same time, the customer is also required to bear our after-sales engineers round-trip airfare and insurance, visa costs, epidemic prevention costs, food, accommodation, transportation, local medical costs and other costs incurred at the customer’s site.
What safety devices do you have on your equipment?
Emergency evacuation valve, cracked gas liquid sealing anti-gas flashback device, flame arrestor, over-temperature, over-pressure alarm device, plastic catalytic cracking supporting high-temperature flexible soft packing sealing technology.
Production and installation lead times for equipment?
The normal production cycle for skid-mounted, intermittent and semi-continuous crackers is 30 working days, and 100 working days for fully continuous crackers. Normal installation lead time is 45 working days for intermittent and semi-continuous crackers, 60 working days for fully continuous crackers, and 15 working days for BLJ-3.
Is it possible to use an electric heating system?
Firstly, we don’t provide electric heating system; secondly, according to our understanding, the cost of electric heating system is very expensive; thirdly, the power consumption per hour is huge, for example, the BLJ-16 equipment needs to consume about 1,000kW in one hour.In addition, our R & D team is working on the hot air heating pilot model, which can improve the heating uniformity and reduce the operation energy consumption.
How many workers are needed to operate the equipment?
Intermittent cracking normally has 3-5 people in one shift. The full continuous staffing system is a three-shift rotating operation, with at least 6 people in each shift, including 1 person in the centralized control position, 2 people in the slagging position, 2 people in the feeding position, and 1 person in the inspection position. At the same time, in order to solve the mechanical failures that occur during the continuous production and operation process, it is required to equip 1 welder and 1 electrician, who will be arranged to deal with the equipment failures centrally on the day shift, so that the overall staffing system is 18-20 people.
Pulp Molding Machine
What raw materials can be utilized?
Cartons, wrapping paper, books, notebooks, A4 paper, document paper, pulp, etc.
Water to paper ratio？
Reference mass ratio of 6:1-5:1 according to our configured high consistency pulper.
The weight of a wet egg tray and dry egg tray?
The single weight of wet egg tray products ranges from 200g-350g; the single weight of dry egg tray products is generally 80-100g; the details can be adjusted according to the customer’s demand, adding auxiliary agents. Weight coefficient of wet egg tray -Turning machine 80*3.5 -4-side machine 80*3 -8-side machine 80*2.5.
What can I do with the final product?
Egg tray egg, egg carton, coffee cup tray, shoe tray, industrial packaging, fruit tray, wine tray, seedling tray.
What is the height of egg trays?
Normal not more than 5cm, abnormal not more than 8cm.
What is drying?
Drying is to use fuel to generate hot air, which enters the drying room to ensure that the temperature in the drying room is about 200 degrees. The hot air circulates and takes away the moisture in the wet tray to obtain a dry finished tray.
What are advantages of metal drying line?
Fuel consumption savings relative to brick; No need to prepare materials, installation needs to be assembled, easy and convenient to install; Small footprint; Metal drying 6-layer.
Time in the drying room for egg trays?
About 17-18 minutes by metal drying line.
Temperature in the drying room?
Metal drying: 200-210 degrees on top, 150 degrees in the center, and 80-90 degrees on the bottom。
Which working conditions are suitable for?
Limited space and high labor costs
Egg tray machine a layout (4 pieces) whether the mold can egg carton, egg tray, shaped mixed layout?
No. Because the vacuum position of a mold layout is fixed, the shape and size of the mold directly affect the vacuum efficiency of the whole layout. In addition, due to the different types of mold height, area, number of holes and location of different, all likely to appear the vacuum degree is not stable, the molding effect is not good. It is recommended to use the same type of molds for one layout, such as all egg tray, all egg carton, all shaped molds.
How long do aluminum and plastic molds last?
2-3 years for plastic molds, 5-8 years for metal molds.
Difference between aluminum and plastic molds?
Aluminum molds have a long life cycle, plastic molds are cost-effective.
What are the dimensions of plastic molds?
The size of plastic mold is 290*290mm,295*295mm,300*300mm.
Production lead time and cost for aluminum molds?
The production cycle for aluminum molds that do not need to be opened is 45 days, and the price refers to the price of different aluminum molds; for new aluminum molds that are opened, the production cycle is 65 days, and in addition to the price of the mold itself, it is necessary to increase the corresponding opening fee.
Are additives needed? What is the concentration of the additive?
Generally, there is no need for additives. You just need to mix water and paper. If you need color, you can add color additives. If you need to increase the adhesion rate, take talc powder as an example. If you need to add talc powder to achieve the purpose of high retention rate, you must use Filler handling system. Use an aqueous suspension containing 20% to 30% talc filler to process it in a mixer at high speed for 6 minutes, dilute it with water and add chemical additives, process it for 5 minutes to prepare a filler suspension and then add it to the slurry.
Beating machine working hours?
Usually about 20 minutes, adjust the time according to the raw materials
• Soft paper: newspaper, A4 paper 15-20 minutes
• Hard paper: corrugated board 30-40 minutes
• High-strength paper: paper jam for 50 minutes
Is it necessary to add auxiliary equipment to optimize the production process?
Collecting machine, the number of egg trays in each package is the same; Packing machine, saving space; Heat press, beautifying the appearance of the product, making it smoother; Vibrating screen, removing impurities; Refining machine, making the pulp more delicate.
How much impurity can the vibrating screen separate?
Impurities larger than 4mm in diameter.
Is there any noise?
The main source of noise in the equipment is the vacuum pump. Relevant sound insulation measures can be taken on the vacuum pump to solve the noise problem. We have mature solutions.
Beston Service
What are the company’s main businesses?
Beston is mainly engaged in the production of equipment for waste plastic/tire/rubber/oil sludge recycling, biomass recycling, sewage sludge management and paper recycling, as well as packaging technology solutions and medical waste disposal solution, installation and commissioning services, project operation services, etc.
How is the company’s strength?
China’s export sales performance ranks first in the solid waste treatment industry.
How is the technical strength?
More than 20 senior engineers with 10 years of industry experience do production research and development, formulate corporate standards for products, and participate in the formulation of national standards for related products.
How to provide customized services
Beston is equipped with excellent bilingual engineers for technical support, and provides integrated customization services (site layout customization, machine configuration customization, etc.) to ensure that customers’ needs in the production configuration and equipment program.
What certificates does Beston hold?
Beston holds relevant technical certificates, all in accordance with ISO90001 certification.
How to guarantee machine quality?
Factory inspection of equipment, raw materials into the warehouse testing, production testing, gas tightness and safety testing, delivery and installation testing of the whole process of strict standards of quality control procedures, third-party professional organizations to test, fully guarantee the life cycle of the equipment, so that the customer in the operation of the equipment safely and smoothly to obtain economic benefits.
How long is the machine lifecycle?
Advanced technology ensures that the equipment can have a long-term stable operation in the production, the life cycle of the machine is up to 5-8 years, which can bring long-term economic benefits for customers.
What are the advantages of the equipment production technology?
1.Equipment production advantage： More than 80% of the staff have more than 10 years of experience in the industry and all employees need to be pre-service training for 7 days, which provide customers with excellent quality assurance equipment products.
2.Quality assurance advantage: Before leaving the factory, the equipment needs to be checked by 3 departments, such as production department, quality inspection department and design department, so as to ensure the quality of products.
3.Production technique advantages: The equipment is all made of national standard steel welding, strict control of steel specifications; machining components are all used in the number of control materials; perfect production part of the raw materials from the raw material material, frame welding, CNC machining, equipment assembly, fine grinding and painting, quality inspection and testing of the entire perfect production process.
4.Equipment continuous operation advantage: The stability of equipment operation depends on the balance of the center point of the rack welding process; equipment precision assembly process; auxiliary accessories all use first-line brands: such as Delisi, Baxter, Siemens, Schneider and so on.
