The success of the briquette biomass technology was
not only in its simplicity, but in the fact that it offered a sustainable
income, generating opportunity. Not only are biomass briquettes easy to make, but they allow the
rural and urban poor to make money in the process. By replacing firewood and
charcoal with bio briquettes, producers can increase their income by 20%.
Income generation along with saving the environment makes a sustainable
solution to poverty reduction.
Biomass briquettes are typically
made of organic materials, mostly green waste or anything high in nitrogen that
burns. That includes such things as grass; plant husks; hulls and stalks;
ground nut shells; wood waste; waste paper and cardboard; and food and animal
waste, including municipal solid waste.
Biomass briquettes or Briquetting
of Biomass in the local language
has brought biomass blazing to the most difficult of developed industries
across the country. the fuel has not seen any significant use in great scale
business until now. Briquette Press is
used to manufacture best class and good mass fuel briquettes from agro-forestry
waste.
When waste products that would normally be discarded are
used to create biomass briquettes they are considered a renewable and
sustainable energy source. Many individuals and businesses, including power
plants, want to use that type of energy. Biomass briquettes are more
environmentally friendly than some other energy sources. They produce a lower
amount of greenhouse gases than fossil fuels do because biomass briquettes are
made of waste materials that were already part of the carbon cycle.
When biomass is
obtained as briquette it can be used in
mechanical and production industries where boilers are used. By the means of these boilers electricity
is produced from steam. Even some of the countries are solely dependent on bio
briquette to generate electricity. The most common use of the briquettes is in
the developing countries, where energy sources are not as widely available.
There has been a move to the use of biomass briquettes in the developed world
through the use of cofiring, when the briquettes are combined with coal in
order to create the heat supplied to the boiler.
