BRIQUETTE PLANT

PLANT
Product Output
Weight: 0.5kg per briquette Production capacity: 1200 briquettes per Hour 600kg per Hour

BRIQUETTE

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Hamstring Engineering Company

Hamstring Engineering Company is a high potential Technology based Company with effective experience in design and construction of machines and equipments for industries. We provide cost effective engineering and technology solutions for our Clients' as their needs and indigenous resources inspire our unique machine designs to ensure excellent service delivery. We manufacture Industrial Plants, Agricultural & Food Processing Machines and provide Energy & Power Solutions as well as Technical Consultancy. With our interest in impacting our local economy and environment positively, we provide Power/Energy solutions, and also research and develop cost effective renewable energy.

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Hamstring Engineering Company, Unit B4, Technology Incubation Center, Off David Mark Road, Tunga, Minna, Niger state. e-mail: hamstringec@yahoo.com Phone: +234-806-589-3646

BRIQUETTE
A Briquette (or briquet) is a small rectangular (or of other desired shapes which depends on the mould used) compressed fuel block (flammable substance), made of materials such as sawdust, charcoal or coal dust used to start or maintain a fire.

ABOVE: Different Shapes of briquettes

LEFT:

Burning Briquettes

Advantages of BRIQUETTE

DOMESTIC / INDUSTRIAL

The briquettes can be used for domestic purposes (cooking, heating, barbequing) and industrial purposes (agro-industries, food processing) in both rural and urban areas. It is one of the alternative methods to save the consumption and dependency on fuel wood (firewood). Briquette fuels are easy to handle, transport and store. They are uniform in size and quality. The process helps to solve the residual disposal problem. The use of briquettes would assist the reduction of fuel wood (firewood) and deforestation. Using briquettes would help to minimize indoor air pollution. Industrial use of briquettes includes the following: Gasifier System applications Refractory Industries Chemical Industries Vegetable Plants Leather Industries Milk Plant Spinning Mill Rubber Industries Textile Units Dyeing Units Brick making units Ceramic Industries Solvent Extraction Plant Food Processing Industries Lamination Industries Any Industrial Thermal Applications

Raw Materials for Briquette production

For biomass briquetting the raw materials employed are mainly of Agricultural residues (wastes), Invasive plants, Waste from bio-product industries and factories and other agricultural residues which can be individually Briquetted or in mixed form.

Sawdust

Rice Husks

Peanut Shells

Sunflower Seed Husks

Wood Shavings

Tree Trimmings

Merits of Wood briquette Wood briquettes are made of dry, untreated wood chips (e.g. wood shavings). They are pressed with high pressure without any binder. By compacting the wood with this high pressure, it turns into a fuel like brown coal. Wood Chips Advantages The advantages of the wood briquettes are that they have a lower ash and sulfur content, compared to the fossil fuels. The carbon dioxide (CO2) balance is even, because wood briquettes release just as much CO2 to the atmosphere as the tree absorbs through growth by photosynthesis. In addition, briquettes have substantially higher BTU value per cubic foot due to their density which means less storage space and more heat released per lb. Energy content The low moisture content of about 10% leads to an energy content of around 5,0 kWh per kg, depending on the type of wood. Green firelogs have a water content of around 50% with 2,5 kWh/kg energy content.

THE BRIQUETTE PLANT

A Bio-mass briquette plant is one which takes waste products such as saw dust, compresses it and then extrudes it to make a reconstituted log which can replace firewood. It is a very similar process to forming a wood pellet but on a larger scale. There are no binders involved in this process. The natural lignin in the wood binds the particles of wood together to form a solid. Burning a wood briquette is far more efficient than burning firewood. Moisture content of a briquette can be as low as 4%, where as green firewood may be as high as 65%. PROCESSES INVOLVED IN BRIQUETTE PRODUCTION Crushing Crushing machine prepare suitable size raw material for biomass briquetting plant. The requested size for briquetting is 3-5mm.The choice on crushing machines depends on the types and sizes of raw materials. Hammer mill is to crush small sized material with diameter no more than 50mm, such like tree branches, tree trimmings, wood chips, wood cuttings, cotton stalk, corn stalk, wheat straw etc. Blate type wood crusher is to crush wood logs with diameter less than 200mm to 3-5mm at any length. Drying Drying machine prepare suitable moisture raw material for biomass briquette press. Moisture of raw material is important for making good briquettes. The proper moisture of raw material should be 8-12%. The choice on dryer model depends on the original moisture content of raw materials. Briquetting Biomass Briquette Press makes the biomass material into briquettes. After the well preparation of raw materials, it is easy to operate and work at briquette press to produce high quality briquettes. When machines rise to over 300 centigrade, the material can be fed continuously into briquetting press. First, the color of briquettes may be a little dark or even black, but after a while, the color will lighten to normal levels coming out of biomass briquette machine.

PACKAGING
Final Packaging of biomass briquettes for commercial reselling. They can be wrapped with a layer of plastic film by thermal shrink wrapping machine and can be packed into bundles.

ABOVE: Packaging of briquettes

Packaged Briquettes ready for export

PROCESSING MACHINES

ABOVE: Hydraulic Press Briquette Plant

BELOW LEFT: Screw Press Briquette Machine

BELOW RIGHT: Screw Press Briquette Machine

Hammer Mill Finished Product Storage Dryer

Raw Material Stroage

Briquette Press

Packaging