BAHIR DAR UNIVERSITY

BAHIR DAR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

HDP organizational placement Project Proposal on

Bio Briquette characterization and production

from textile sludge and Biomass residue.

1. Hailemariam Mulugeta
2. Mulat shitye
3. Destaw Belete
4. Simachew Addisu
5. Abel Mebratu
 Presentation out line
 Introduction
 Objectives
 Statements of problem
 Significance of the research
 Literature review
 Methodology
 Conclusion
 Introduction
 Energy is a pre-requisite for
the development.

 Biomass contributed to about

10% of primary energy demand
globally.
 Leads for deforestation.

 Conventional energy sources

 Textile sludge and biomass

residues.

 Clay soil as binder

 2. Objectives
2.1. Major objective

 The major objective of this research is characterization and production of

bio-briquette from textile sludge and Biomass residue.
2.2. Specific objective

 Gathering of important data, biomass and textile sludge materials

 Drying of those materials for small size grinding and sieving.

 Specification of the mixing ration of the carbonized biomass with

sludge and binder.
 Mixing those grinded material with the specified ratio with
addition of binder, pressurize it and drying with appropriate
temperature.
 Finally burning of the briquette for testing of its performance.
 3. Statements of problem

 Ethiopia is one of the developing countries its energy requirement is

increasing day to day for house hold and industrial fuel.

 Du to energy shortage, there is a massive deforestation for household

and industrial fuel usage. And also, the ordinary charcoal is scarce
and its price is becoming higher and cause critical air pollution.

 Solid waste management is one of the major problems in Ethiopia

especially in textile factory, there is massive sludge available and
also plenty of agricultural residue are available in the country side.

 Therefore, in this paper we provide characterization and production

of bio-briquette from textile sludge, biomass residue and with some
binders.
 Significance of the research
 The briquette produced from biomass residue and textile sludge has more benefits
from economical, health and environmental point of view to job opportunity.

1.Environment protection

2.High thermal value

3.Uniform shape in dense structure and convenient use.

4.Moisture content of briquette charcoal is much lower

than wood-turned charcoal.

5.Briquette charcoal is free from chemicals, and

featuring long-time burning, smokeless.
 4.Literature review
Classification of briquetting machine

Based on operating conditions Based on mode of operation

 Hot and high pressure densification  Batch densification

 Cold and low pressure densification  Semi-batch densification

 Continuous densification

The types of equipment used On the basis of compaction pressure

 Piston press densification  High pressure compaction

 Screw press densification  Low pressure compaction with a binder

 Roll press densification
 Medium pressure compaction with a heating
 Pelletizing
device
 5.Methodology
5.1 Characterization
 Production of sustainable and renewable energy source from
locally available biomass feedstock’s provides great
opportunities to achieve sustainable growth and development in
economic, social and environmental aspects for all nations
across the globe.
 Characterization of briquettes will be conducted using
proximity analysis
 Moisture content determination,
 Ash content,
 volatile matter and
 Fixed carbon determination using proximity analysis mothed.
5.1.1 Moisture content determination

 The process involved the determination of the water content of the

material by drying the sample to a constant mass at a specified
temperature.

 The drying process will be maintained until a constant mass was attained
at a temperature of 105 ± 5°C after which the sample will be out and
allowed to cool.
5.1.2.Determination of volatile content
 Some amount of sample will be pulverized and oven dried at 105 until its
weight constant. Then; the sample will be heated in furnace at 450 for 15
min and weighted after cooling in the desiccators’.

5.1.3 Ash content determination

 The ash content of different types of biomass is an indicator of slagging behavior of the
biomass. Generally, the greater the ash content, the greater the slagging behavior. But this
does not mean that biomass with lowers ash content will not show any slagging behavior.
5.1.4 Fixed carbon content determination
 It is measured in terms of percentage estimated by subtracting the
total percentage of the other three parameters from 100%.

 Fixed carbon (FC) in a fuel is determined from the following equation,

where M, VM, and ASH stand for moisture, volatile matter, and ash,
respectively.
The major constituents of fuel are

 Carbon,
 Hydrogen and
 Oxygen
 5.2.Materials

 The briquettes in the composition ratio of 10%:45%:45%;

10%:60%:30%;10%:30%:60% of binder, textile sludge and
carbonized coal and length of 0.7mm to1mm will be analyzed.
 Raw material preparation:- such as wood ;textile sludge and clay soil

 Carbonizing: The raw material is carbonized with out air for

partial combustion for carbonization.
5.3.Tools will be used for the research work
 6.Conclusion

 Now a day’s briquetting technology plays an important role in the

utilization of agro-wastes and textile sludge for higher calorific value
and higher energy utilization with the process of carbonizing, crushing,
mixing, briquetting and drying process.
 With a proper maxing ratio of carbonized wood; textile sludge and
binders.
 Tools that will used are hammer/grinder, sifter, balance, oven, furnace,
mixing container, compression and molding tool and testing stove.
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