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FUEL BRIQUETTES MANUFACTURING PLANT

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HOW TO GET STARTED IN YOUR OWN FUEL BRIQUETTES PROCESSING PLANT

This page discusses the profitable business of small scale manufacture and production of FUEL BRIQUETTES in your country. You can develop a successful profitable small scale FUEL BRIQUETTE manufacturing production project in your country using Leucaena plus locally available agricultural and forestry wastes such as sugar cane bagasse, nut hulls, grass and straw, rice straw and hulls, sawdust, wood chips, field residues and even waste wood including coconut hulls and husks. You have your choice of making regular briquettes or charcoal briquettes. You can also grow your own fuelwood for raw material using fast growing nitrogen fixing trees, shrubs and special plants like the Giza sorghum.

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WHAT RAW MATERIALS CAN BE USED TO MAKE CHARCOAL OR BIOMASS BRIQUETTES?

Some items that can be briquetted include bamboo chips, peanut husks, coffee bean husks and other vegetable wastes.

YOU may also dry and briquette spent fruits from juice making operations such as cashew apples, mangoes seed and hulls, etc.

Any type of Agro-Forestry waste can be used. But the Moisture Content Should be Less than 12%, grain size is below 5×5mm. Groundnut-shell • Sugarcane Biogases • Caster Shells/Stalk • Saw dust • Coffee Husk •Paddy Straw • Sunflower Stalk • Cotton Stalks • Tobacco waste Mustard Stalk • Jutewaste • Bamboo Dust • Tea waste • Wheat Straw • Palm husk • Soybeans husk • Coir Pitch Barks • Straws • Rice Husks • Forestry wastes • Wood Chips and many other Agro wastes.

WHY PRODUCE FUEL BRIQUETTES?

Developing a small business in your country producing FUEL BRIQUETTES is an excellent way to develop a successful business of your own. You can begin with simple equipment and develop a large scale business in just a few years. You can begin by selling in your country and later expand to export production. You can begin by selling in bulk and later expand to shrink wrapping and other consumer packaging of your products.

FUEL BRIQUETTES are good to begin with for several reasons:

WHAT KINDS OF FUEL BRIQUETTES CAN YOU PRODUCE?

There are several ways to produce fuel briquettes. each one requires differing amount of equipment and supplies. Chances are you can economically produce all of these in your country. It's a matter of deciding which one you want to start with so you can develop a profitable business. The three ways to produce FUEL BRIQUETTES include:

1) Charcoal briquettes

Charcoal briquette manufacturing requires that you produce two products. First you must produce the charcoal. The second step is then to prepare the charcoal and lastly you briquette it into charcoal briquettes.

2) Wax briquettes

Wax briquettes require you to mix your raw materials together with a binder, usually wax, that holds the briquette together more firmly after compression.

3) Nonwaxed briquettes

Nonwaxed briquettes involves using very uniform materials and mixing them together without a binder.

SETTING UP A SMALL SCALE FUEL BRIQUETTES PRODUCING PROJECT

There are some very important steps you must take to insure your fuel briquettes manufacturing production plan is a success. Some of these steps include:

CONSTRUCTION OF A FACTORY BUILDING OF BAMBOO/HUISCOYOL

If you already have access to a building or other structure, you do not need this section. However, if you are establishing a small business on low capital, you can build your structure out of bamboo, rattan or locally produce particle board or huiscoyol. You may frame the building using locally produced decay resistant round woods such as Leucaena, mangrove, ironwood, cedar and other termite resistant tree species. Such a structure might have only one very large open structure for housing both the machines and raw materials. The area can be divided into sectors:

sector 1 segregation of incoming raw materials

sector 2 storage of raw materials

sector 3 actual processing of briquettes

sector 4 packaging/ wrapping and storage of products

You will need to construct within the building an additional room for your office. Another sector would be for marketing your product. This should be in front where people can easily enter the building.

For more details on construction using bamboo/rattan/huiscoyol/ using round wood framework, write to Indigenous Construction Program, MOTILES, S.A., Barrio Lempira, Contiguo Papelitos, Frente ADEL, Intibuca, Intibuca, Honduras, CA  or email to briquetting@regenrecycle.com

 STORAGE FACILITY FOR RAW MATERIALS

LOCATING AND EVALUATING LOCAL RAW MATERIALS

The specific problems of obtaining raw materials include:

COLLECTION OF RAW MATERIALS

A key component of the collection of raw material for FUEL BRIQUETTE manufacture is dryness. It is essential to collect the raw materials when they are dry and keep them dry. It is easier to keep them dry than to dry them after they become contaminated. Under no circumstances should materials be placed where they will be left uncovered. Cover them with plastic or woven mats if they are available. Weave mats of banana leaves and other materials for covering the ground where raw materials are to be collected. When purchasing from others inspect the materials and pay lower amounts for dirty raw materials. Word will get around and people will bring clean material in for you to buy.

QUALITY CONTROL OF RAW MATERIALS

One of the most important components of a successful manufacturer of FUEL BRIQUETTES is quality control. You need to control quality at these points:

STORAGE FACILITY FOR RAW MATERIALS

This is a critical part of your operation. You will need to be able to store enough raw materials to maintain a consistent flow of products for your plant. In addition, you will need to separate all the different types of raw materials so there will be no mixing of the end products. On floor bins for storage of raw materials with or without enclosed fronts can be easily constructed in room 1 using bamboo, huiscoyol, rattan or rough lumber. It is important that raw materials be kept out of the weather so they will not rot.

FUEL BRIQUETTE ENERGY CONTENT

Differing waste materials have different energy contents. If you are working with commercial or export markets, they may want to know the energy contents of the briquettes. For those markets, you may want to know the energy content of the materials you are briquetting.

SIZE REDUCTION

For good briquetting, materials must be reduced to very small size. Size reduction is done by the chipper for waste wood and then the resultant chips are reduced further in a grinder or hammermill type crusher.

MATERIALS MIXING

When using more than one type of waste material, it is vital that all materials be well mixed. Mixing needs to be complete even though the materials are all finely ground.

SCREENING

After the materials are ground and mixed, then they must be screened for size quality. This will remove those particles that are too large so they can be then returned to the grinder for regrinding before being added to the production line again.

DRYING

The dryness of the raw material for briquetting must be held at a uniform level. Briquette raw material's dryness must be held around 12% moisture content. If the materials become too dry it will become too dusty and particles will not adhere to each other to form the briquettes. If the materials are to wet, they will fall apart as they dry after briquetting. If the raw material's moisture content is less than 12% you may spray it with water to get it to the desired dryness. If it is greater than 12%, you will need to use a dryer to bring it to the desired consistency.

CONVEYING

Product raw materials have to be conveyed from the grinder to the screen, from the screen to the dryer and then to the storage bin that feeds the compressor. Once the materials are in the storage unit that feeds the compressor, they must be conveyed to the compressor. Once the briquettes are formed they must be conveyed from the compressor.

BLOWING

In some systems, raw materials are blown up into the storage chamber for feeding to the chip compressor. 

BRIQUETTING

A screw type compression machine is used for forming the briquettes. The briquettes are extruded with a hexagonal shape with an outside diameter of 60mm. The hole through the middle makes the briquette burn better. The length of the briquette can be controlled by the operator.

COOLING BRIQUETTES

After the FUEL BRIQUETTES  are removed by the mill, the FUEL BRIQUETTES must be cooled. You need to strap them and stack them in small piles and put them in a shady section of room 3 that has been set aside for this. It is important that this area be kept cool and clean. 

STRAPPING

Briquettes are formed by compression which holds them together. However, they can deteriorate if allowed to be in a wet or damp place. Another source of breakage is careless piling of briquettes. Briquettes should be strapped with a strapping machine into small packets and then these packets should be strapped together into multiples of the small packets. Two pieces of strapping tape, preferably three should be used for safety and permanence.

STORAGE OF FINISHED BRIQUETTES

Briquettes should be stored inside, in a dry place. The floor should not be allowed to get damp and no leaks should be in the roof of the building. Briquettes should be kept clean and dry prior to selling. Always sell the oldest briquettes and arrange the storage area so that you are always drawing from the oldest products in your stock.

PACKAGING BRIQUETTES

While strapping in small bundles in consumer sizes is the most profitable way to market your FUEL Briquettes, often you will want to sell to larger commercial buyers. They may want to buy in truck loads and may want them strapped to a pallet. You will need a forklift and large strapper if you want to sell this way. Additionally you will want a large shrink wrapping system if products are to be exported. It is vital to prevent moisture from entering into the briquettes.

MANUFACTURING CHARCOAL BRIQUETTES

The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines charcoal as "a dark or black porous carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances (as from wood by charring in a kiln from which air is excluded)."

Simply put: Burn wood in an environment where you can limit the amount of oxygen available to feed the fire, drive away the water and other volatile substances, and you're left with char, or what we commonly call charcoal. For the most part, charcoal is pure carbon.

According to Peter J. F. Harris, Department of Chemistry at the University of Reading in the U.K., the beginning of charcoal production coincides with the development of metallurgy some 5,000 years ago. A plain wood fire was not hot enough to smelt metals because of the water and volatiles that are released during combustion. However, burning charcoal produced temperatures well over 1,000°F with little smoke, just what was needed for metal work. Charcoal played an important role in the Bronze Age (about 3,000BC) and the Iron Age (about 1,200BC).

Of course, charcoal was used by man as an art material far earlier. Cave paintings using charcoal date back to as early as 30,000BC!

Man's first encounter with charcoal was probably in the aftermath of a fire caused by a natural event, like a wildfire from a lightning strike. A tree catches fire, falls down, gets partially buried and oxygen deprived, and the smoldering fire transforms the wood into charcoal.

Early methods of charcoal production involved burning wood slowly in pits in the ground covered with soil. Today, we use sophisticated above-ground kilns and retorts in which to manufacture charcoal with great precision and efficiency.

Leftovers from wood and paper processing (branches, bark, and sawdust) are screened and then chopped to a uniform size before being "roasted" in oxygen-controlled retorts—sort of like ovens—at 600-1,800°F. The resulting char is mixed with other ingredients before being molded into the familiar briquette shape, dried, and bagged.

Briquettes are a convenient, inexpensive source of fuel, The general consensus is that briquettes tend to burn longer and more consistently than lump charcoal, but not quite as hot. The consistency of briquettes is due to the fact that they are an engineered product, essentially made using a "recipe" that can be duplicated over and over again.

Briquettes frequently contain other ingredients in addition to charcoal to improve the performance characteristics of the product. As a result, they leave behind a considerable amount of ash, which is of concern in cookers that can't accommodate ash build-up.

The only required "other ingredient" in a briquette is a binder, usually a starch of some sort that holds the crushed charcoal together when it's compressed into those little pillow shapes. The problem is that this basic briquette may not light very easily, or burn very hot, or burn very long. So, manufacturers add more "other ingredients" to improve the performance characteristics of their products.

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STORAGE OF LARGE QUANTITIES OF BRIQUETTES

Your product must be stored in a covered cool place so that they will not become damp while awaiting sales. It is very important to start with a storage area construction as soon as you begin planning to develop your FUEL BRIQUETTES manufacturing business. Bins can be constructed in the building in room 3 for this purpose. With a safe storage, you can produce large quantities of FUEL BRIQUETTES when raw materials are available, often during the harvest season and sell them later when prices rise after the season is over.

MARKETING

With a quality control program established, you should not have a great deal of trouble marketing your products. However, since you make no profit when the product is in your warehouse and is not in the hands of customers, a marketing plan should be developed at the beginning of the project. A marketing plan should include: