Georgia Biomass Explosion
From the Florida Times Union and Jacksonville.com, a brief story about the explosion at Georgia Biofuels. Pelletizers, dryers, grinders, pellet coolers, dust collection systems, and storage silo's are main concerns for safety systems to prevent fires and explosions at biomass pellet plants. This fire appears to have started in one of the pellet mills or "pelletizers" which extrude wood dust into pellets at high speed creating friction and heat. The fire was then likely transferred to the pellet coolers and dust collection systems which contain combustible dust in suspension causing the deflagration. -Jeff Nichols Overheated assembly caused Georgia Biomass explosion | jacksonville.com By Teresa Stepzinski Wood pellet production should resume today at Georgia Biomass, which was crippled by a dust explosion last month. The plant is near Waycross. "We're ramping up now ... starting ...