Carbon Neutral Fuel With Charcoal Briquettes

Laboratory Scale Charcoal Briquette Machine

Charcoal produced from pyrolysis process can then be used as fuel. Briquetting will make a more solid fuel that is cheaper to transport and easier to handle. Charcoal briquettes can be burned and last much longer and more consistently than lump charcoal. Fuel from biomass charcoal include carbon neutral fuel that does not contribute to global warming because of the carbon from the charcoal from plant sources by which plants take carbon from the atmosphere during photosynthesis. The carbon balance calculation (in terms of origin and utilization) will be neutral because there is no addition of elemental carbon to the atmosphere. Below are some photo-photo charcoal briquettes:
  

 Quality charcoal produced from pyrolysis process would also affect the quality of the fuel produced charcoal briquettes. In addition to mechanical devices to compress, adhesive is also used for the manufacture of charcoal briquettes. The form of lump charcoals will be reduced in size to a certain particle size, devices such as disk mill is widely used in laboratory scale. Various variables can be explored to produce good quality briquettes such as pressure, number and type of adhesive, the quality and size of the particles of charcoal and so on. Charcoal briquettes are widely used for barbeque, among others in the United States, Western European countries and Russia (Moscow)