What Is Briquetting Essay

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Briquetting
Briquetting is a mechanical compaction process of binding together pulverized materials into briquette under high pressure, often with the help of a binder. These high density solid blocks can be used as a fuel to replace fossil fuels or wood for cooking and industrial processes. Furthermore, they are cleaner and easier to handle, and cut greenhouse gas emissions.1 This process is used for forming fine particles into a geometric shape and practically identical weight and it increases the density of bulky materials. It is considered as an energy and waste control measure in the production of briquetted from any biomass wastes. However, depending on the wastes of interest, briquetting can be used as fuel source …show more content…

This art is subdivided into two parts:-
• Compacting of loose material other combustible waste products to improve the volumetric calorific value of fuel
• Agglomeration of the materials so that the briquette stay in the compressed state for use in energy production.

Compaction mechanism4
Mani et al. (2002) postulated that there are three stages during densification of biomass.
1st stage : . In the first stage, particles rearrange themselves to form a closely packed mass where most of the particles retain their properties and the energy is dissipated due to inter-particle and particle-to-wall …show more content…

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