Straw to fuel manufacturers scramble to

"We have just started production, and the order has already been scheduled for three years, so we are not worried about selling at all!" At the straw collection and processing base in Gaofeng Village, Shanpo Street, Jiangxia District, Wuhan City, General Manager Huang Xiexing told reporters, "not only rice, cotton and rape straw can be turned into fuel, but also Chinese fir branches, peanut stalks, and lotus shells can turn waste into treasure."

Huang Xiexing said that in the hillside street, every household planted Chinese fir trees. In order to promote the growth of Chinese fir trees, the branches must be trimmed manually. Hubei forbids the burning of straw in the open air. Every year, a large amount of agricultural and forestry waste gives villagers a headache. "if you throw it away, there will be garbage everywhere." burn it and pollute the air.

In October last year, eight farmers in Gaofeng village had an idea and, with the support of a biomass fuel company, raised 3 million yuan to set up a professional cooperative and adopted the operation mode of "company + cooperative + base + peasant household". Using an abandoned factory area and 13 mu of land in circulation, the biomass molding fuel production line base was built, and the waste was turned into fuel and sold to boiler plants, cement plants and other places. As an alternative to fossil fuels.

In the production workshop of the base, on three molded fuel production lines, workers will peel, crush, squeeze, and dry the straw, agricultural and forestry branches, soybean stalks, and flammable melon and fruit shells purchased from the village and the surrounding villages through a series of treatments, such as peeling, crushing, pressing, drying, and so on. make pellet fuel and pack it for shipment.

Yu Liangzhong, the village branch secretary of Gaofeng Village, is one of the 8 participating farmers. He said that Hillside Street is located in a typical agricultural and forestry area, and the village and its surrounding areas are rich in agricultural and forestry resources, which can digest agricultural and forestry wastes from nearly 10 surrounding villages, and these raw materials are "bought with money. Chinese fir branches are 150 yuan per ton. Sawdust is 200 yuan per ton and straw is about 140 yuan per ton."

Huang Xiexing said that the base collects about 11000 tons of digested crop straw and processing waste of agricultural and forestry products every year, and produces about 10, 000 tons of biomass-shaped pellet fuel, which is equivalent to replacing 6000 tons of standard coal. at the same time, 15 farmers' jobs can be solved on the spot.

"We send the trial-produced products to several industrial and civilian boiler plants in Wuhan, Xianning and other places for trial burning, with sufficient calorific value and very little waste gas from combustion." Huang Xiexing said.

In Jianghan Plain, the problem of agricultural and forestry wastes such as straw has perplexed the government and farmers for a long time. According to the staff of the special class of rural work in Wuhan, these farmers' spontaneous cooperatives of turning waste into treasure will find a way out for the open-air burning of crop straw in the city, and at the same time promote the construction of beautiful villages.