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Influence of processing conditions on the quality of briquettes produced by recycling charcoal dust
- Source :
- International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Vol 9, Iss 3, Pp 341-350 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018.
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Abstract
- Physical and thermal properties of briquettes produced by recycling charcoal dust under different processing conditions have been reported in this study. The main aim was to investigate the effects of the binder and processing conditions on the properties of briquettes. The effect of adding molasses binder on combustion properties of the briquette was first assessed. Then by fitting experimental data, mathematical models to predict gross calorific value, ash content, moisture content, relaxed density and shatter index with respect to binder mass fraction, drying temperature and compaction pressure were developed. All briquettes properties were predominantly affected by amount of molasses used. Molasses mass fraction increment in briquette results in significant increment in ash content, moisture content, relaxed density and shatter index and significant reduction in gross calorific value. Drying temperature did not have major influence on briquette properties except moisture content. Compaction pressure (50–150 MPa) used in this study had negligible influences on all briquette properties. Therefore, such high pressure which involves energy consumption is not necessary during production of charcoal dust briquettes. Optimized values of gross calorific value and shatter index were 29.031 MJ/kg and 80.363%, respectively, for 50 MPa compaction pressure, 29.512 °C drying temperature and 10% molasses mass ratio.
- Subjects :
- Briquette
Thermal properties
Environmental Engineering
Materials science
020209 energy
lcsh:TJ807-830
lcsh:Renewable energy sources
Compaction
02 engineering and technology
Combustion
Briquettes
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
lcsh:TA170-171
Charcoal
Water content
Charcoal dust
Physical properties
Pulp and paper industry
lcsh:Environmental engineering
Molasses binder
General Energy
High pressure
visual_art
visual_art.visual_art_medium
Heat of combustion
Mass fraction
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 22516832 and 20089163
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....06ea25476db1b3cfd9058177fce4c8ea