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TARA Charring and
Briquetting Technology for Clean Fuel |
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TARA
(Technology and Action for Rural advancement) offers a clean fuel
technology, which converts waste biomass into valuable charcoal briquettes.
The biomass resources suitable for this technology include woody species
that grow prolifically on waste land such as ipomia, lantana, and even
mustard stalk, cotton stalk, arhar stalk etc. The purpose of this process is
to produce high quality, clean and standardized fuel from waste recovery.
Brief production
process
The production process starts with harvesting of biomass; which is used as
raw material. It is followed by chopping of this material. Then this
material undergoes the process of pyrolysis, in which the woody raw material
is fired and cooled in a controlled manner, resulting into production of
char. The resultant char is ground to fine particles, mixed with suitable
binder with appropriate quantity of water. Finally, this mixture is fed into
the extruder to produce briquettes of required dimensions, with or without
axial holes.
Areas of application
The briquettes are ideal for use in hotel industry, for barbecues, kilns and
tandoors. Briquettes can be also used for a wide variety of end uses like :
cooking, space heating, milk processing, cloth ironing etc.
Advantages of TARA Ferrocement channels
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Clean fuel technology
which gives energy efficient combustion and heating |
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Utilises waste
biomass like
ipomia, lantana |
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Environment friendly
technology, as the biomass material are CO2 neutral |
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Easy
ignition |
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Provides uniform burning |
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Standardised heat content |
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Reasonable price |
Development
Status
Commercialized
Technical Data
| Annual
production |
120,000 kg Fuel
briquette
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| Biomass
requirements |
1200 kg
per day |
| Char
production |
300
kg per day
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| Briquettes
production |
400 kg
per day |
| Land
requirement |
150m2
(including 75 m2 of covered space) |
| Electricity
requirement |
7.5 KVA |
| No.of
jobs created |
10 (1
Supervisor, 4 skilled, 5 unskilled) |
Economic data
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Infrastructure cost for
office and workshop |
Rs 60,000
(based on local conditions) |
| Equipment
(Electric model) |
Rs 1,22,70 |
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Transportation and
insurance (in India) |
Rs 12,000 |
| Installation
and know how transfer |
Rs 20,000 |
| Total
(cost of enterprise) |
Rs 2,14,700/- (US$
4300)
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(These cost do not
include cost of land, as it varies considerably from place to place) |
Business
TARA charring and briquetting
fuel technology is highly profitable for micro and small scale
entrepreneurs. A capital investment of about Rs.2.2 lakh results in an
annual turnover of Rs 5,40,000/-, yields upto 20% recovery on the investment
in the first year of operation. There are no raw material costs, the value
addition is purely on account of manpower costs. The equipment is supplied
by TARA (Technology and action for Rural Advancement), a leading sustainable
technology marketing organisation.
Transfer form
Equipment,Turnkey basis
Further
Contact
Mr Subroto Roy
Development Alternatives
B-32, TARA Crescent
Qutab Institutional Area
New Delhi – 110 016
Tel : 91+11+2696-7938, 2685-1158, Fax : 91+11+26866031
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