WB0222_bkj.qxp_Wood Bioenergy Magazine 1/17/22 3:38 PM Page 18
Engineering Firm Beco By Jessica Johnson ASHLAND, Me. or mechanical engineer Tyler Player, a native of Aroostook County, Maine, converting biomass from the forest to useable energy wasn’t his life’s work. It was on his radar, as he wound a path through forest products in his
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career—but not his life’s goal. The engineer quickly developed a knack for wood dryers and soon would leave his job with a corporate plant to start his own firm, Player Design, which among other products and services builds drying systems. PDI dryers are popular with North American domestic pellet plants for a variety of rea-
sons, with capacities ranging from 1 ton to 20 tons. Knowing how to build a dryer and building a pellet mill (or in the case of Maine Flame, a briquette plant) is a lot different than building a plant and then running it after commissioning. But that’s the exact challenge Player and his team took head on with the Maine Flame proj-
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