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Manual Charcoal Briquettor Boosts Income of Coconut Farmers

This modified manual briquetting machine has been creating ripples in Cavite.

The researchers of the Forestry Products Research and Development institute, based at UP Los Banos, Laguna, fabricated a modified manual briquetting machine using steel plates, angle bars and round bars. It was patterned after an existing manual briquetting machine weighing 55 kilograms (kg) and produces 12 kg of briquettes per hour. Each briquette measures 5.0 cm high and 2.5 cm in diameter.

The modified unit makes briquettes each measuring 3.8 cm high and 3.8 cm in diameter with 1.25 cm cavity diameter. It produces 15 kg of charcoal briquettes/hr. The unit weighs 75 kg, making it sturdier than the old unit.

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Posted on November 12th, 2008 under Other Crops. Tags: , . Comments: None

Bamboo Wastes Make An Excellent Charcoal Briquette

Bamboo wastes particularly the dead poles and branches from the clumps as well as the processing wastes such us trimmings and shavings, can be a very good material for making low-cost be a very good-quality charcoal briquettes used for cooking purposes.

This was learned from Dr. Stanley C. Malab, a professor and scientist at the Mariano Marcos State University and the director of Ilocos Agriculture and Resources Research and Development Consortium (ILARRDEC), both located in Batac City, Ilocos Norte.

Dr. Malab headed a research team that perfected the process of making charcoal briquettes out of bamboo wastes. What makes it more interesting is that the researchers have used effluent from the processing of “chichacorn” (boiled glutinous white corn kernels and deepfried) as binder.
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Posted on October 3rd, 2008 under Forest Trees. Tags: , . Comments: 3

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