Sunday, August 19, 2012

Bio-briquette


Bio-briquette are compacted pieces of organic wastes, including crop and forestry wastes which have energy values and are used for combustion energy generation. Bio-briquette is renewable source of energy. Bio-briquette are provided by briquetting or biomass densification which means the transformations of agricultural waste into valuable fuel by use of some form of mechanical procedure to reduce the volume of  vegetable matter and conversation to a solid form which is easier ro handle and store than the original material.

Required materials
The raw materials used for establishing a briquette production unit are locally available. The raw materials for biomass briquette can be
  1. Agricultural residue (husks, cob, stalks, leaves, stems. Shells. Sticks etc)
  2. Invasive plant (banmara, lantana camera, euphorbia royalena, congress grass)
  3. Waste from bio-product industries like sawmills plywood industries, furniture’s factory, match factories etc.

Suitability
  1. The technology is pollution free and eco-friendly
  2. The briquette is easy to ignite
  3. Sparkles
  4. Continuous burning
  5. Long burning duration
  6. High heat value

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