Briquetting of biomass for low cost fuel using farm waste, cow dung and cotton industrial waste

Abstract

The ultimate source of energy for crucial activities like cooking, heating and parboiling process is burning wood and other agricultural products. Due to growing populations utilizing resource of combustible biomass materials will finally result in insufficiency of those materials until certain measures are taken to secure them. It mainly focuses on the minimization of pollution especially land, water and air and to avoid the deforestation mainly for many fuels for burning. The product taken is the by-product, which is obtained from the residue left after letting the cotton industrial waste for reuse. The raw materials used are cassava waste, coconut shell, groundnut shell, cotton waste and cow dung with thirty different mix ratios. The briquettes were made without using any binder. Using hydraulic pressure with UTM given to produce the briquettes are 5.0 kN/cm2, 5.6 kN/cm2 and 6.0 kN/cm2. Good energy content has been obtained when the pressure for producing briquettes at 5.6 kN/cm2. These briquettes are mainly used for industrial boiler running and cooking purpose.