Investigation of the process for fuel brickets formation from core bases and the determination of their characteristics

Abstract

Based on the results of environmental monitoring, it has been established that a significant amount of unused waste vegetation is produced in Ukraine, but pollutes the environment (air, water bodies and adjacent territories). The technologies of utilization of wood and vegetable wastes in solid biofuel-briquettes are analyzed, technological processes and equipment are shown. Such types of solid biofuels occupy less volume than non-pressed waste, and, having a large mass, become transportable, which allows them to be used for the heating needs of residential and industrial premises. The possibility and expediency of introducing polymer waste to fuel briquettes in order to improve their physical and mechanical properties has been substantiated and implemented in practice. When using leather dust, which gives a thixotropic effect, the flow of polyethylene is avoided during the burning of briquettes - the most high-caloric part of the fuel. Thus, one of the most ecologically important technical problems is solved, concerning the means of fire elimination not only waste wood, leather dust, but also waste thermoplastics. The technique was developed and a fuel mixture of briquettes with improved physical and mechanical properties was created.