期刊名称：International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology
印刷版ISSN：2347-6710
电子版ISSN：2319-8753
出版年度：2016
卷号：5
期号：7
页码：12454
DOI：10.15680/IJIRSET.2016.0507055
出版社：S&S Publications
摘要：Fossil fuels are the major source for energy.The excess use of these fuels will lead to seriousenvironmental issues like global warming and air pollution. Since the fossil fuels are getting depleted day by day,it isthe high time to convert biomass wastes such as sawdust, coir pitch, coffee husk, rice husk etc., to useful biomassbriquettes which will be the substitute for some of the fossil fuels. This paper focuses on the design and fabrication ofbriquetting machine which is portable and can be done at very low cost. It also focuses on the production of biomassbriquettes using raw materials mainly sawdust and dry leaves with binding agents like coffee husk and wheat flour.Also study is carried out to investigate the calorific values of the briquettesusing bomb calorimeter. The resultsindicated that the briquettes made from sawdust, dry leaves and very small amount of wheat flour (binding agent) arecompact, dry and have greater calorific value when compared to the briquettes made from sawdust, dry leaves andcoffee husk (binding agent) are not strongly bonded and possesses slightly lower calorific value.
