Waste to Energy: Cocoa Pod Husk Briquettes & Pellets

In the World’s least developed countries, solid fuel is the primary cooking fuel for over 80% of the population. Indoor air pollution ranks in the top four leading risk factors for death worldwide. Furthermore, urban demand for wood-based fuels such as charcoal drives unsustainable, large-scale deforestation. Ultimately, the byproducts of biomass combustion—which is often incomplete…

Making Fuel Pellets from Solid Wastes

Prime Minister Narendra Modi may want a “Swachh Bharat” (clean India) by 2019, but sweeping the streets does not address the enormity of India's real garbage challenge. s prosperity grows, 62 million tonnes of garbage is generated everyday by the 377 million people living in urban India, now the world's third-largest garbage generator. However, it’s…

Integrated Wood Waste Briquetting Plants

  BACKGROUND: All across the world, wood waste is one of the most abundantly available biomass residues for Briquetting. The different types of wood wastes that are available are shown below –   Most commonly used material for large capacity plants is Saw Dust as multi stage preprocessing is required for all other materials and…

Growth of Biomass Briquetting

BACKGROUND: Press-to-log (Biomass Densification) technology was developed in USA during World War-II. After World War, use of Biomass Briquettes was replaced with Liquid Fuel. During 1960-70, Europe was facing difficulty in central heating system fuel management. Large lumber houses were generating lot of wood waste. Press to log technology was gainfully utilized by two European…

BIO-COAL – An Eco Friendly Solid Fuel

India is one of the nations who have accepted that they shall adopt National Policies and take corresponding measures on the mitigation of climate change by limiting its anthropogenic omission of green house gases & protecting and enhancing its green house sinks and reservoirs. BIO-COAL densified solid fuel from renewal agricultural and forest residues are…