Team Name: Team Briquettiers

Team Members:

1.SANDIPANEE DAS

2.ZUBIN PARIDA

3.SAI SANDIP SAHU

4.JAY DUTTA PATTNAIK

5.RASHMI RANJAN DASH

PITCH:

Rapid population growth and consumption of goods and services imply that demand for energy and resources increases continuously. Energy consumption linked to non-renewable resources contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and enhances resource depletion. In this context, the use of agricultural solid residues such as rice husk, coffee husk, wheat straw, sugar cane bagasse, among others, has been widely studied as an alternative energy source in order to decrease the use of fossil fuels. However, rice husk is among those agricultural residues that are least used to obtain energy in developing countries. Approximately 134 million tonnes of rice husk are produced annually in the world, of which over 90% are burned in open air or discharged into rivers and oceans in order to dispose of them. This review examines the energetic potential of agricultural residues, focused on rice husk. The project describes direct combustion and fast pyrolysis technologies to transform rice husk into energy considering its physical and chemical properties

SOLUTION:

THE ART OF BRIQUETTING -The reduction of material density is the reason for undertaking briquetting as it determines both the savings in transport and handling costs and any improvement in combustion over the original material: the art of briquetting. This art essentially involves two parts: the compaction under pressure of loose material to reduce its volume and to agglomerate the material so that the product remains in the compressed state

Basically using modern techniques such as Screw Compaction or Extrusion ,Pan Grinder Presses for Pelletizing and Roller Presses we can easily use husk as a source of energy by converting it. Ultimately our main focus is to minimize the carbon emission emerging from the burning of husk through the above stated method we can change the conventional procedure of burning.

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