"Fuel" Blogs & Blog Posts

---I was cruising along EDSA on my way to Makati a week ago, and I noticed the incredibly low price of gasoline at the Total station just before MRT-Boni Avenue. I slowed down a bit, hoping to see an equally good deal at the next gas station. And boy...

Since you will be mixing various biomass ingredients for briquette making, big plastic pails or vats are suitable containers for this purpose. The wide mouth of these containers will make it easier for you to mix the ingredients and transform them i...

In a recent entry, I wrote about the workplace where I make my homemade briquettes. Biomass briquettes can come from various ingredients and so the entire process may be a bit messy. Use an apron to keep dry.In the absence of an affordable commerci...

The basic workplace for making the briquettes would be a sink. A sturdy table with a good catch basin would be a good alternative. Shown below is the basic setup I have at home. It is essentially a sink made of concrete at our "dirty" ki...

In a previous post, I mentioned how paper should be prepared as a briquette ingredient. Two other ingredients I use on a regular basis are crushed dried leaves and sawdust. Sawdust need not be broken down further. Just ensure that wood shavings an...

In a previous entry, I discussed the common materials used for briquettes and in another, a background on some commercial briquetting machines.The briquettes I create for our cooking are essentially made up of paper waste, sawdust and a little of oth...

The usual materials used for biomass briquetting are agricultural wastes. Examples of agricultural wastes include rice hull (shown on the left), corn husks, coconut shells, grass clippings, dried leaves, dried sticks and so on. However, many non-t...