Study Of Properties Of Briquette Produced From Groundnut Shell Coal Blend

CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the study
1.2 Butadiene and benzene (Schirnding and Bruce, 2002)

CHAPTER TWO
2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Briquetting Process
2.2 Historical Background of Briquetting Process
2.3 Advantages of briquette production
2.3.1 Bio-Coal Briquettes Bio-coal briquette
2.3.2 Characteristics of Bio-Coal Briquettes
2.3.4 Production Process of
2.3.5 Preparation of other types of Briquettes 2.5 Coal
2.6. Biomass Resources of Nigeria
2.6.1 Bio-coal briquette:
2.6.2 Charcoal: Types of charcoal are
2.7 Starches as a Binder Starch
2.7.1 Binders used in the production of bio-coal briquettes
2.7.2 Calcium Hydroxide Calcium hydroxide
2.7.3 Environmental issues.
2.7.4 Groundnut shell as an appropriate residue for the production of biocoal briquette.
2.7.5 Analysis of groundnut shell Table 1:
2.7.6 Uses of groundnut shell.

CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY
3.0 MATERIALS AND METHOD
3.1 Materials and their sources
3.2 Apparatus used for the experiment
3.3 Reagent used for the experiment
3.4 Preparation of materials
3.5. Determination of the colour and texture of the raw materials
3.5.1 Determination of the chemical composition of the raw materials Digestion of the samples (Aqua regia method
3.5.2 Proximate analysis of the raw materials
3.6.1 Characterization of the bio-coal briquettes samples
3.8 Determination of Density
3.9 Determination of compressive strength of the briquette Samples
3.7 Water boiling tests of the briquette samples

CHAPTER FOUR
4.0 RESULT AND DISCUSSION
4.1 Colour and texture of the raw materials
4.2 Chemical composition of the materials.
4.3 Analysis of the materials Proximate analysis:
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