A Study on Rice Husk Briquette at Various Moisture Content for Energy Application

To cater the increased need of humans, energy being crucial, has left no choice for
researches to work on alternative fuels like fossil fuels energy etc. Despite of its
pollution and failure to sustain due to the depletion of the reserved. Hence an attempt
is made to prepare fuel briquettes as an alternative source for energy application from
highly available agricultural biomass rice husk, in Malaysia with huge amount of
production per year, However, problem encountered by rice husk which naturally
comes with low bulk density and low moisture content resulting in low durability
characteristics of rice husk briquette. Thus, this study aims in producing rice husk
briquette at various moisture content, 12%, 14% and 16% and determine the suitable
moisture content of briquettes which promotes high durability with good fuel
properties. The briquette was evaluated by conducting chemical (ultimate and
proximate analysis, thermogravimetric analysis) and physical (density, durability,
compressive strength and surface morphology).