DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF LOW COST HAND OPERATED BRIQUETTING MACHINE

S.N. DONGARDIVE¹*, A.M. WANKHADE², D.D. MORE³, D.D. RAJANKAR^4
1Department of Electrical and Other Energy Sources, College of Agriculture Engineering, Jalgaon Jamod, 443402, Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra 444104, India
²Department of Farm Power and Machinery, College of Agriculture Engineering, Jalgaon Jamod, 443402, Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra 444104 India
³Department of Electrical and Other Energy Sources, College of Agriculture Engineering, Jalgaon Jamod, 443402, Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra 444104, India
⁴Department of Electrical and Other Energy Sources, College of Agriculture Engineering, Jalgaon Jamod, 443402, Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra 444104, India
* Corresponding Author : snehaldongardive28@gmail.com

Received : 28-05-2018     Accepted : 11-06-2018     Published : 15-06-2018
Volume : 10     Issue : 11       Pages : 6295 - 6297
Int J Agr Sci 10.11 (2018):6295-6297

Keywords : Biomass Briquettes, Calorific value, Sawdust, Cow dung, Dry leaves
Academic Editor : Rajesh R Gajbhiye
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Author thankful to Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra 444104, India
Author Contribution : All author equally contributed

Fossil fuels are the major source for energy. The excess use of these fuels will lead to serious environmental issues like global warming and air pollution. Since the fossil fuels are getting depleted day by day, it is the high time to conssvert biomass wastes such as sawdust, coir pitch, rice husk etc., to useful biomass briquettes which will be the substitute for some of the fossil fuels. This paper focuses on the design and fabrication of briquetting machine which is portable and can be done at very low cost. The results indicated that the briquettes made from sawdust, dry leaves and very small amount of wheat flour (binding agent) are compact, dry and have greater calorific value when compared to the briquettes made from sawdust, dry leaves are not strongly bonded and possesses slightly lower calorific value.

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