Potential energy of the fuel briquettes from mangosteen shell
Abstract
The objective of this research is to use mangosteen shell that from household wastes for
produce the fuel briquette. This fuel is used in terms of renewable energy which instead of firewood
and charcoal from natural forest. We used the adhesive paste as a binder and briquette with hand
pack filler. The results showed that the mangosteen shell can be burned to charcoal black and
lightweight. By grinding mangosteen charcoal into small size, these charcoals were mixing with the
paste. We have to compress the mixing charcoal molded into fuel briquettes. These briquettes are
performed the stable and non-broken products. After sun drying, the results of potential energy
testing showed that the calorific value 5920 cal/g, combustion rate 11.8 g/min, fixed carbon content
61.7%, and ash content 7%. For the combustion efficiency testing, our fuel briquette could be
performed cooking as well, non-explosion, high combustible, non-soot, non-smoke and non-odors
during used. These fuel briquettes are suitable for fuel products in household, community, or
commercial production and industrial. Due to these advantages, our briquettes are possibly to
instead of firewood and charcoal from natural forest which can be reduced the global warming by
another way.
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