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Recycling & Green Energy Alternatives
Briquetting: A Cleaner and Longer Burner
Wood burning is unsustainable, leading to deforestation, diversity loss, and increased fossil fuel pollution. Briquetting is a cleaner-burning and more cost-effective alternative. A briquette is made from compressed combustible material such as sawdust and is mainly used for fuel or kindling a fire.
A sawdust briquette is a block of compressed sawdust that can be used as a product. Its production involves adding a binding material to the dust followed by the application of high pressure over high temperatures. Waste material is transformed into an upcycled product that serves as a cleaner and more affordable burning alternative.
The Sawdust Briquetting Process
Materials
Crushing
Drying
Briquetting
Why Cleaner-burning Alternatives are Essential
Every year millions of tons of agricultural waste are generated that are either not utilized or burnt wastefully polluting the environment. Transporting agricultural waste materials can be challenging due to their low density. A sustainable solution to the challenges is to convert waste into a more compact form extending the materials’ burning capacity, rendering the materials easier to transport and more affordable for everyday use.
Waste materials can be converted into higher-density briquettes at a biomass briquette plant. Briquettes are more sustainable and energy-efficient and could reduce the pressure on forests and lower pollution levels in urban areas, which is why there is a massive demand for such products in the local market. That is why DTCare Lebanon along with other stakeholders is finalizing a technical and financial study of opening a biomass briquette plant projected to begin operations in late 2022-2023.