DOST-FPRDI Conducts Consultation and Technology Demo for Los Baños LGU
May 29, 2015
DOST-FPRDI’s Mr. Calixto T. Lulo demonstrates the charcoal briquetting technology to officials of the local government unit (LGU) of Los Baños, Laguna during their visit to the Institute last 25 May 2015.
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The Los Baños LGU is eyeing the charcoal briquetting technology as a livelihood option for local communities and as a means of utilizing the municipality’s agro-forest wastes.
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Charcoal briquette is a compacted mass of fuel made from a mixture of charcoal fines from carbonized agro-forest wastes like rice hull, sawdust, coffee bean hull and starch, and molded under pressure. As an energy source, charcoal briquettes can replace a sizable amount of the country’s expensive sources of household fuel – liquefied petroleum gas or LPG, kerosene and electricity.
Because they are compact and uniform-sized, some users prefer briquettes because they are less messy and easier to handle than ordinary charcoal. They are also easy to ignite, slow burning, emit more intense heat per unit volume, and almost smokeless when burning.
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To know more about charcoal briquetting and other FPRDI technologies, contact FPRDI at (+6349)536-2586/ 536-2360/536-2377. You may also visit our booth at the National Science and Technology Week Celebration at the SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City on July 24-28, 2015 for our other technologies. (Maybell Mariella A. Amador, 26 May 2015)#
