Wood Waste of Replanting For Sawdust Charcoal Briquette Production

Palm Oil Trunk

Rubber Wood

At a certain age the trees on large plantations are no longer productive so they need to be replanted to maintain the sustainability of the plantation business. Two large plantation groups in Indonesia, which cover millions of hectares, are palm oil plantations and rubber plantations. Wood waste from the trunks of these trees can reach thousands or even millions of tons, and is generally not utilized. Indeed, there are uses of replanting wood waste for furniture, buildings and household appliances industries, but the portion is still very small so it cannot absorb the huge volume of wood. For example rubber wood can also be used for industrial furniture, wood and building wood, as well as palm oil logs. Even rubber wood is also used for making particle boards such as MDF (Medium Density Fibreboard) or HDF (High Density Fibreboard).

Sawdust Charcoal Briquette

Sawdust Briquette Charcoal in Carton Box

The utilization or processing of replanting wood waste for the production of wood charcoal briquette (sawdust charcoal briquette) is the right solution for this problem. Large market potential factors and product specification requirements that are not too difficult make this business attractive. In contrast to wood pellet products which are usually for power plants that require large volumes of supply and very strict specifications, so sawdust charcoal briquette products in addition to the volume of supply also do not have to be large and the specifications are more loose. This is because the use of sawdust charcoal briquette is for barbecue or more specifically mostly for roasting lamb meat in Saudi Arabia, the Middle East and Turkey. In wood pellets for electricity generation specifications are often difficult to fulfill, especially in the chemical aspects of ash such as chlorine, potassium and even sulfur, to be more clearly read here. Whereas in the production of sawdust charcoal briquette for chemical ash, the level of which is only ppm is not a problem at all.

Charcoal Briquette Production Route

Many people think that the production of sawdust briquette charcoal requires additional adhesives such as starch (tapioca), this is understandable because many people still do not know about the production process of the sawdust charcoal briquette. To produce charcoal briquettes in general, using charcoal raw material is then crushed into powder and added adhesive (such as starch) and then briquetted. The briquette product is then dried and packaged to be marketed. The production process of charcoal briquettes in this way is less good and less acceptable to the market. While the production process by means of the wood is crushed about the size of sawdust and then dried and then briquetted. The briquetting does not require adhesive because in wood there is always a lignin compound, which is useful as the adhesive. Furthermore, the briquettes are carbonized to increase fixed carbon and reduce volatile matter. Charcoal briquette products in this way, commonly called sawdust charcoal briquette, have better quality and are in demand by the market. The above scheme is enough to explain 2 routes of the production process of two types of charcoal briquettes.

Wood waste of replanting in time will also run out and be replaced by new plants. How can the sawdust charcoal briquette production business continue? A production unit certainly requires a supply of raw materials. To be able to continue to supply raw materials for production, one alternative is to make energy plantations. The energy plantations can be with fast rotation plants such as calliandra or gliricidae. To optimize woody biomass productivity and business, the energy plantation should be integrated with sheep, cattle and honey bee farms. And for more details can be read here.