Sawdust Briquette Machine

Sawdust briquette machine is a screw-type extrusion press for making briquettes as fuel from biomass materials. It is one of the main machines in making bio-charcoal briquettes. It is also called a biomass briquette press or wood charcoal machine.

1. Wood sawdust briquettes can be used as fuel for burning directly. Compared with natural wood, it has a higher density and heating value.
2. The sawdust briquette machine can use residual wood and agro-waste to produce briquettes, and these wood briquettes can be carbonized into charcoal. It changes the traditional way of making charcoal from lump wood, helping reduce tree felling.
3. Compared with natural timber charcoal, sawdust briquette charcoal has a higher heating value and longer burning time.

Biomass materials for producing briquettes can be wood sawdust, rice husk, tree branches, coconut shell, coffee grounds, bagasse, peanut shell, bamboo, etc. One thing in common among these materials is that they all contain a certain amount of lignin. Lignin is an important ingredient for briquette forming, it can reform the shape in the condition of high pressure and high temperature.

The size and moisture of materials are important for making high-quality wood briquettes. Regarding the size of the material, it needs to be less than 5mm, and the moisture content should be less than 12%. To make the materials meet these requirements, you can choose a wood crusher and sawdust dryer to process the raw materials.

First, set the temperature of the sawdust briquette machine to 280℃. After the temperature rises to 280℃, begin to feed materials into the sawdust briquette machine. Sawdust is pushed by the rotating screw forward to the end of the mold. Under high temperatures and high pressure, sawdust is forming into briquettes and is expelled from the mold. The briquette producer needs to adjust the temperature according to the quality of the briquettes until to get the ideal wood briquettes.

You can read the below operation manual of the sawdust briquette machine for more details.

The shape and size of briquettes are determined by the mold barrel. Diameter of briquettes is 50mm. All of the briquettes made by the sawdust briquette machine are hollow. 

The screw propeller, heating elements, and mold are the spare parts of the sawdust briquette machine.

Regarding the service life and maintenance period of these spare parts, details are as below,

Screw propeller: Please check the screw propeller per week and welding repair its head if there is wear. For one year of biomass briquette production, we suggest taking at least 6 pcs screw propellers for one set sawdust briquette machine.

Heating elements: Suppose that 24 working hours per day, the service life of the heating circle is about 6 months.

Mold barrel: Suppose that 24 working hours per day, the service life of the mold cover is 3-4 months.