Applications Of Biomass Briquettes

Applicationsof BiomassBriquettes

DomesticUse

Cheaper energy for cooking and heating. Briquettes are a cheaper form of energy, hence their popularity among low-income populations, particularly in informal urban settlements

Households that produce briquettes for their own use and those that purchase them save about 70% and 30% respectively of income spent on cooking energy. Briquette producers generate income, which is hard to do in the informal settlements Improved water use and hygiene in the kitchen. Cooking pots used when cooking with briquettes accumulate no soot and hence require less cleaning, improving hygiene and water use at the household level.

FoodProcessing Industriesand IdustrialBoilers

(sugar mills, paper mills, chemical plants, Cement, food processing units, oil extraction units etc.) using fuel for steam generation and heating.

Food processing agencies use Briquettes in the drying, bakeries, distilleries, canteens, and restaurants.

Poultry

Briquettes generated out of a Briquette Machine is used by the poultry for the heating of chicks and incubation purposes.

Pillow charcoal are briquettes made from coconut shell forming the shape of a pillow. The production process of pillow charcoal involves carbonising, compressing and mixing with vegetable binder and forming briquette. They posses fine fixed carbon content and minimal ash content.

Gasification

The gas can be used to generate power, and eventually replace coal based producer gas systems and oil firing in furnaces.

In India about 46% of total energy consumption is estimated to be met from various biomass resources, i.e. agricultural residues, animal dung, forest waste, firewood, etc. India produces a huge quantity of agricultural residues and a major part of it is consumed in traditional uses (such as fodder for cattle, domestic fuel for cooking, construction material for rural housing, industrial fuel for boilers, etc).