Bagasse refers to the dregs left after extracting sugarcane juice from sugarcane, usually including sugarcane bark, stems, leaves, and other parts. In recent years, with the improvement of environmental awareness, more and more people have begun to pay attention to the reuse of bagasse. Among them, converting bagasse into briquettes is an option.
This article explores the relevant information purely from a theoretical and production process perspective; in actual production, mixing it with sawdust is recommended.
Below is a video of our experiment producing briquettes using pure bagasse.
If you wish to produce higher-quality briquettes using bagasse, we recommend adding sawdust. The higher the proportion of sawdust, the better the quality of the resulting briquettes.
The recommended process of making briquettes charcoal from sugarcane bagasse
As a common biomass energy material, bagasse charcoal is produced using a process similar to that of other biochars, including crushing, drying, and carbonization.
The following are the steps involved in producing briquette charcoal from sugarcane bagasse:
1. Collect bagasse and dry it on a spacious ground to reduce moisture
2. Crushing. Choose a hammer mill to crush bagasse and crush it to less than 5mm
3.Mixing the crushed bagasse with sawdust(we suggest not less than 50%)
4. Drying. The mixed bagasse and sawdust is transported to the dryer for drying to reduce its moisture content to below 12%. For the selection of the bagasse dryer, careful consideration needs to be made according to the humidity of the bagasse and the drying output per hour.
6. Briquette making. The dried materials are compressed into logs with a briquette machine.
7. Carbonization. Choose our carbonization furnace or self-built carbon cellar to convert bagasse sticks into charcoal briquettes at high temperature.
