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    This chapter discusses the materials and methodology used to make briquettes. Rice chaff and sawdust were collected to use as the raw materials. To make sawdust briquettes, the sawdust was soaked in water for three days until softened. The water was drained and starch was added as a binder since sawdust is coarse. The sawdust mixture was pressed into a cylindrical mold using a manual press to remove water and compact the material. The pressed briquettes were then dried on a rack.

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    This chapter discusses the materials and methodology used to make briquettes. Rice chaff and sawdust were collected to use as the raw materials. To make sawdust briquettes, the sawdust was soaked in water for three days until softened. The water was drained and starch was added as a binder since sawdust is coarse. The sawdust mixture was pressed into a cylindrical mold using a manual press to remove water and compact the material. The pressed briquettes were then dried on a rack.

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    This chapter discusses the materials and methodology used to make briquettes. Rice chaff and sawdust were collected to use as the raw materials. To make sawdust briquettes, the sawdust was soaked in water for three days until softened. The water was drained and starch was added as a binder since sawdust is coarse. The sawdust mixture was pressed into a cylindrical mold using a manual press to remove water and compact the material. The pressed briquettes were then dried on a rack.

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    16 CHAPTER THREE 3.0 MATERIAL AND METHODOLOGY 3.

    1 Collection of Briquette Making Materials


    The materials used for briquettes in this work were agricultural residues (rice chaffs) while sawdust was
    collected from the timber shed on Baga Road, Maiduguri. 3.2 Preparation of Briquettes 3.2.1
    Preparation of briquettes from sawdust The sawdust used for briquettes were soaked in cold water
    at room temperatures (20 – 26oC) for about three days until nearly decomposed. The sawdust requires
    no pounding due to the particle size. The water was thereafter drained off leaving behind a pulpy
    mixture. Starch was then added to the pulpy mixture to serve as binding material due to the coarse-
    loose nature of the sawdust. A fixed quantity of the pulp was hand-fed into the cylindrical-shaped plastic
    mould of a manually operated closed-end piston press (Plate 1) to press out water from the pulp and
    compact the particles. Thereafter, the briquettes were ejected and placed on a drying rack and left to
    dry. This comprises of 100% sawdust

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