Biofuel Briquettes

• Biomass briquettes are a biofuel substitute to coal and charcoal. Briquettes are mostly used in the developing world, where cooking fuels are not as easily available. There has been a move to the use of briquettes in the developed world, where they are used to heat industrial boilers in order to produce electricity from steam. The briquettes are cofired with coal in order to create the heat supplied to the boiler.
• Biomass briquettes, mostly made of green waste and other organic materials, are commonly used for electricity generation, heat, and cooking fuel. These compressed compounds contain various organic materials, including rice husk, bagasse, ground nut shells, municipal solid waste, agricultural waste.
• One of the most common variables of the biomass briquette production process is the way the biomass is dried out. Manufacturers can use torrefaction, carbonization, or varying degrees of pyrolysis. 

Benefits :

• They do not have any of the disadvantages of fossil fuel energy, and it is easily renewable. ... The biomass materials are compressed into briquettes so that they can be used by energy producing companies to replace charcoal. These burn just like charcoal but they do not produce any harmful effects on the environment.
• The biomass materials are compressed into briquettes so that they can be used by energy producing companies to replace charcoal. These burn just like charcoal but they do not produce any harmful effects to the environment. They can be used to boil water and power turbines to generate electricity.