Making Charcoal Briquettes Using Agricultural Wastage

S. Aynharan¹ , R.M.S.M. Rathnayake² , P.Sinthuja ³ , P.R.Fernando ⁴

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.8 , Issue.4 , pp.18-21, Aug-2020

Online published on Aug 31, 2020

Copyright © S. Aynharan, R.M.S.M. Rathnayake, P.Sinthuja, P.R.Fernando . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
Day to day, millions of tons of agricultural wastes are generated which are destroyed without any use. Using this, can provide a renewable energy source by converting biomass charcoal briquettes. Briquettes are non-renewable source of energy which is used to reduce the demand of energy source. This study is carried out to produce good thermal efficiency briquettes as an alternative source of energy by using waste materials such as rice husk, pine cones, pine needles and coconut shells. Different types of briquette sample are manufactured based upon their raw materials. All the briquettes have same weight, design and physical structure. The briquette, having cow dung as the binder with ratio to one of two of cow dung with raw material. The analysis of the briquettes compared with the commercial product which is available in the market. The samples are analyzed upon these parameters by performing water boiling tests and proximate analysis such as flame time and burning rate. The pine cones briquette with cow dung as the binder is having the longest life among all the considered types of the briquettes. The burning rate is observed better for the pine cones briquette. According to the water boiling test the commercial product raw coal has got least time. However the pine needle briquettes take small different than raw coal

Key-Words / Index Term :
rice husk, pine needle, pine cones, coconut shell and briquette

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