Pre-Design of Bio-Briquette Production Using Kenari Shell

Abstract

Abstract At present, coconut shell charcoal briquettes are one of the alternative energy sources that are in demand by the export market. The purpose of this research was to produce an alternative briquette product based on local natural materials. Kenari shell is a waste of natural materials or biomass. The characteristics of Kenari shells have the same structure with coconut shell. The pre-design of briquette production of this Kenari shell used pre-treatment process stages, charcoal making, destruction, printing with adhesive variation, drying, and SNI quality of briquette quality analysis. The results of pre-design of bio-briquette production of Kenari shell showed that the application of the method and the basic ingredients of waste could produce the product of charcoal briquettes equal to charcoal briquettes of coconut shell.