The Performance of Biomass Chopper and Solid fuel compactors from Agricultural Waste

Abstract

The objective of this research is to study the efficiency of biomass chopper and solid fuel compactors shredding machines. Compare the efficiency of the biomass fuel biomass briquette and shredding machine with the current machine or technology. The design and build a low cost biomass chopper to find the capacity and its performance. Its dimension was 0.45 m-width, 0.75 m-length and 1.10 m-height .This biomass chipper can be run via a bicycle. Biomass after chopping is compacted by biomass fuel briquette machine which can compress agricultural waste such as rice straw, corn and rice husk together with using tapioca starch as binder at the ratio of 25% by weight. The properties of solid fuel compactors such as physical properties, heat values and approximate analysis such as moisture content, carbon stability, volatile matter, and lignite content etc. The results showed that the biomass shredder had a biomass chopping rate of 20. 64 kilograms per hour and the efficiency of the chopper was 79. 70%. The biomass fuel pelletizer has an average production rate of 0. 13 centimeters per second. Comparison of the properties of the solid fuel compactors, including physical properties, heating values, and estimated analysis values, passed the Thai Community Product Standard.