Making Coconut Shell Charcoal Briquettes

Coconut shell charcoal briquettes will always be needed, as it is one of the environmentally friendly alternative energy producers. Consumers are very fond of briquetted briquettes.

To make coconut shell briquettes there are several things that need to be prepared, among others raw materials, tools and process machines and science or techniques to make coconut shell briquettes.

1. RAW Material

• Coconut Charcoal
• Starch
• Water
  
  To make charcoal, there are several processes, among others, by pyrolysis or also by burning through a closed drum. The difference is the pyrolysis process will produce liquid smoke, while the burning drum is closed, the smoke is thrown out.

2. Tools and Machines
To make briquettes, can be done manually or automatically, to help facilitate the production process, automatic machine is the biasaya selected. Tools and machinery among others.

• Charcoal / Scrubbing Machine
• Mixing machine
• The briquette and printing machine
• Briquette oven

3. Making Technique

• Banning
  The coconut shell is made of charcoal by means of manual banding through the barrel then (burned) and closed until there is only a small amount of ventilation on the barrel. or by means of a pyrolysis process, where the shell is inserted into a pyrolysis tank in a closed state, then the smoke is condensed to liquid smoke.
• Siege
  Charcoal produced by manual combustion or pyrolysis is then encircled using a disk mill machine.
• Mixing media
  The filtered coconut shell flour is then mixed with kanji glue. At the time of mixing added with starch glue as much as 2.5% of the coconut shell flour.
• Charcoal Briquette Printing
  After the ingredients are evenly mixed, they are subsequently put into briquette molds and then curing and drying.