A large population of rural or hills of Uttarakhand is still facing the energy crisis in the household as well as for small and medium scale industries due to insufficient supply of fuel and electricity. The supply of coal and LPG is irregular for far-flung areas which make them bound to depend solely on wood for fuel. Therefore, a study was undertaken to evaluate the physical and thermal properties of pine needle biochar briquettes to check its feasibility as sustainable solid biofuel for the hills of Uttarakhand. Pine needle biomass was collected from the pine forest and converted into biochar. Further, biochar was mixed with three binders . soil, cement and lime in different ratio on weight basis briquettes were formed using screw type briquetting machine. |
