There are a huge number of wood pellet scams around. All requiring bank transfer rather than cheque on delivery. Be careful.
I love the smell of phenolic in the morning.
The higher burning temperature of a pellet stove should combust them in much the same way as commercial incinerators.
Higher burning temperatures? Do any domestic wood pellet stoves operate close to commercial incinerator temperatures?
Most organic compounds with be destroyed at around 1100F, hazardous waste incinerators are around 2100F, a typical pellet stove burns around 200-260F.
Think your F and C are a bit confused
Just below or above the boiling point of water (in old fashioned F😉)
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“Remember, the average temperature inside a pellet stove pipe can reach upwards of 650 degrees Fahrenheit,”
Even that is a bit econimical but we maybe talking crap American products. Decent pellet stoves reach gasdification temperature which is why they are more efficicient than wood stoves.
You couldnt even light a pellet at that temperature.
I thought the esp max safety shut off temp on a pellet stove was 350F.
Thats less than 180 C, its nothing for a pellet/wood burner
If 350F at the esp that would be a max in the flue of around 500F.
I know pellet boilers will run around 600-800F but didn’t think normal fires run anywhere near that as a pellet burner does not need to get anywhere near the temp of an enclosed wood stove to get the same btu output.
As this is a forum about France can we only use metric measurements & degrees centigrade please.
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Nope to old fashioned 
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slightly OT but supermarkets are doing the same. 15-25% increases on products without cost pressure to them. It’s a feeding frenzy, even here in France, and they’re getting in while they can and no plans to dial the increases back, ever.
There is some supply chain cost pressure in some categories and fair enough. But not across the board where massive price rises have been seen. Someone like Purina that seems to dominate petfood behind so many brands might be pushing it (massive price rises there) but I suspect the scale of the increases is rarely being passed back to the supply chain by supermarkets.
Heaven only knows how much further that must be going in the UK with Brexit as an excuse as well.
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Part of Purina’s problems with large shortages of pet foods, was and is caused by the COVID problems in China, causing a shortage of aluminium cans and ingredients, it’s still not been sorted yet.
One of the main reasons for the increased efficiency of a pellet stove over a wood stove is the increased combustion temperature. Reaching gasification temperatures ensures a big heat increase through igniting creosotes and a much cleaner burn. Very efficient wood stoves like the Burley range can also get to gasification temperatures but not as easily as a pellet stove.
But only in a relatively small area in the combustion pot of the combustion chamber compared to a log burner.
Yes absolutely but thats how they work, a much smaller but more intense high temperature burn but still achieving much higher efficiencies than the best wood burners. Whether the additional pellet cost produces any financial saving over wood is probably questionable but automatic ignitionand timer functions are handy.