Improved biomass briquetting wood for the rennovate future energy needs Chintalapati Gopala Krishna1,*, Leelanath2, Viswam N.3, Gowrisankar Y.4 1Department of Zoology, Hindu College, Guntur (A.P.) 2Dept. of Statistics, Hindu P.G.Courses, Hindu College, Guntur (A.P.) 3Dept of Biotechnology, Hindu P.G.Courses, Hindu College, Guntur (A.P.) 4Dept. of Physics , Hindu College, Guntur-522 003. A.P., India. *Email: gk_chintalapati@rediffmail.com
Online published on 26 February, 2013. Abstract Energy is the key input to drive and improve the life cycle and gift of the nature to the mankind in various forms. Biomass, particularly agricultural wastes, has become most promising energy sources; available as free, indigenous and environmentally friendly ones. Decreasing availability of fire wood made efforts towards efficient utilization of agricultural wastes. The consumption of the energy is directly proportional, with ever growing population, industrialization of the developing countries leads to global demand is expected to increase and was recognized in early 1970 s. Biomass briquetting is high compaction technology or binder less technology in which biomass residues are compressed under high temperature and pressure. The residues contain lignin i.e., non crystallized aromatic polymer with no fixed melting point but at 200 -300°C; lignin starts to become to soft, melted and liquefied. At high pressure lignin will glue cellulose together and solidified and formed briquette. This process increases net calorific value per unit volume, easy to transport and store, solves the problem of residue disposal and to reduce deforestation by providing a substitute for fuel wood, is uniformed in size and quality For this process we can use different types of waste material like agricultural waste, forest waste, charcoal and wood waste. Top Keywords Biomass, Briquetting and wood. Top |