Manufacturing and Testing of Briquetting Fuel from Palm Oil Mill Waste
Keywords:
Biomass, biochar briquette, briquetting machine, clayAbstract
Tropical countries are producing a great amount of biomass from cultivation of crops and plants. One significant biomass is from the oil palm plantation where its availability is from the oil palm mills. Unburned biochar from oil palm shell and fibers are taken from the boiler pits and are separate for briquette production. The production of briquette using a mould and a press machine compresses the mixture of biochar and binder. An experimental study on the variation of height of briquette with the ratio of biochar to binder of 80:20, 70:30 and 60:40 were investigated on the burning rate, burning time and the maximum stove temperature when the stove airflow is fully open and half open. The results show that briquette with the lowest density and the highest height give the best burning quality with the total burning time (TBT) of 30 to 40 minutes, maximum normalized burning rate (NBR) of an average of 102% mass loss/min with the maximum temperature of approximately 260°C.References
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