Custom biomass burners — non-standard fuels and configurations
When standard configurations do not fit.
A fuel with unusual ash chemistry, a process demanding an atypical temperature profile, a site with severe space or regulatory constraint, an integration into existing plant that cannot be modified — custom engineering exists for these cases.
Engineering process
- 01Requirements assessment
Thermal load, fuel characterisation, site survey, integration constraints and regulatory context.
- 02Feasibility study
Technical viability and an honest appraisal of where the requirement can and cannot be met.
- 03Conceptual design
System architecture and principal component selection.
- 04Detailed engineering
Full specification with performance modelling.
- 05Prototype & testing
Validation under representative conditions where the application warrants it.
- 06Manufacture & QC
Production to the approved specification.
- 07Commissioning & handover
Installation supervision, performance verification and training.
Customisation areas
- Non-standard fuels — residues outside our validated set, characterised and engineered for.
- Specialised temperature profiles — narrow tolerance bands, staged ramping, or unusually low or high operating ranges.
- Integration with existing plant — matching interfaces, control protocols and physical constraints of installed equipment.
- Hazardous-area & regulated environments — enhanced safety specification where required.
- Extreme site conditions — high ambient temperature, high altitude, high dust load, corrosive coastal atmosphere.
Industry applications
- Food processing — temperature-critical applications with hygienic design requirements.
- Pharmaceutical & nutraceutical — GMP-aligned construction with validation documentation.
- Textiles — fibre and fabric processing with specific humidity control.
- Ceramics & building materials — controlled ramp profiles preventing stress cracking.
- Chemical processing — enhanced safety specification and containment.
Specification
These are the platform figures every configuration on this page is built from. The values specific to your product and volume are fixed at the sizing stage.
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Biomass burner | 200,000–900,000 kcal/h, PLC-controlled staged combustion |
| Accepted fuels | Pellets, 90 × 90 mm briquettes, cashew shell, crop residue |
| Hot air generator | Double chamber, three-pass, 2,500–3,000 m³/h |
| Delivered air temperature | 50–150 °C, controlled |
| Heat transfer | Indirect — combustion gases never touch the product |
| Drying chamber | 40–100 °C, 2.0–3.0 m/s, 1,500 kg per batch |
| Construction | 100 mm rockwool-core sandwich panel, 120-minute fire rating |
| Trays and wagons | SS304 stainless steel |
| Control | Delta PLC with recipe management, HMI, VFDs |
| Warranty | 12 months from date of shipment |
| Manufacturing lead time | 10–18 weeks from confirmed order and receipt of advance payment |
In prose: the burner runs from 200,000 to 900,000 kcal/h under PLC-controlled staged combustion, firing pellets, 90 × 90 mm briquettes, cashew shell or crop residue. The three-pass double-chamber generator moves 2,500 to 3,000 m³/h and delivers air between 50 and 150 °C, transferred indirectly so combustion gases never touch the product. Drying chambers hold 40 to 100 °C at 2.0 to 3.0 m/s with 1,500 kg per batch, built from 100 mm rockwool-core sandwich panel to a 120-minute fire rating, with SS304 trays and wagons. Manufacturing takes 10 to 18 weeks from confirmed order and receipt of advance payment, and the warranty runs 12 months from date of shipment.
Where this equipment is used
The same equipment is specified across several product classes. These are the ones it is configured for most often:
spice and botanical drying and tea, coffee and cocoa drying.
Each of those pages carries the drying parameters, cycle times and quality targets for that product class.
Frequently asked questions
What actually gets customised, and what does not?
The combustion chamber geometry, the fuel feed and the control logic are configured to the fuel and duty. The platform does not change: staged combustion, indirect transfer, Delta PLC control, and an output somewhere in the 200,000 to 900,000 kcal/h range. A bespoke burner is a configuration of a known machine, not a prototype, and that distinction is what keeps the lead time real.
Does a custom build change the lead time or the warranty?
Not by default. Manufacturing is 10–18 weeks from confirmed order and receipt of advance payment, and the warranty is 12 months from date of shipment, the same as a standard unit. A genuinely unusual fuel or duty can extend design time before manufacturing starts, and we say so at quotation rather than discovering it later.
What do you need from us to specify a custom burner?
The fuel — its form, moisture, ash content and how reliably you can get it — and the duty: what you are heating, to what temperature, for how many hours a day. Fuel supply is the question that most often decides the design, and the one most often answered optimistically. With that in hand we place the burner somewhere in the 200,000 to 900,000 kcal/h range and specify the feed and ash handling around it.
Discuss a custom requirement
Bring us the fuel, the process constraint or the integration problem — we’ll tell you honestly what’s feasible.
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