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APPLIED ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH


Volume 43, No. 03, Month JULY, Year 2021, Pages 107 - 120


Synergistic effect of waste feedstock mixture and torrefaction pre-treatment on some briquette characteristics of cornhusk and sawdust wastes

Mufutau A. Waheed, Opeyemi A. Akogun


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uld drive the clean energy production industry and properly replace the use of coal in Nigeria if done sustainably. The objective of this work therefore is to study the synergetic effect of waste feedstock mixture and torrefaction pre-treatment on some physical and performance characteristics of briquettes from cornhusk (CH) and sawdust (SD) wastes. In this work, CH and SD wastes were processed raw and torrefied at 200 to 300 °C and were mixed in the ratios between 90/10 and 10/90 for briquette production using D-optimal crossed design. Cassava starch of 20 g to 100 g of the feedstock (w/w) was used as binder. The performance characteristics of CH/SD briquettes were evaluated using standard procedures while the generated data were processed using ANOVA, regression and pareto analysis. Etc...


Keywords

Synergetic effects; Sawdust; Cornhusk; Mixture; Torrefaction



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