Make BBQ Cooking with Charcoal Briquettes

BBQ food is the favorite for most young people, because it is tasty and with lots
of fun. Then do you know how to start making your own BBQ cooking? Well, first of all, the fuel is necessary, nowadays we recommend a new kind of clean and renewable fuel — charcoal briquettes.

Then after all the preparations ready, you can enjoy your barbecue journey by charcoal briquettes. Remember that always store your charcoal away from moisture and store in a dry place. Fire can't survive without oxygen, so make sure the vents on your grill are open and you are in an open area. Take some newspaper and crumble it into a loose ball. Place it on the bottom grate of your grill. Make a small pyramid over the paper with the briquettes. Light the paper and let the briquettes burn for a while. When the flames start to die down, add more briquettes until you have enough for whatever you're cooking.

If you are BBQ lovers and are looking forward to making your own delicious barbecue food, charcoal briquettes is a best choice.

Introduction to Charcoal Carbonizing Process

Carbonization is a very important process for making charcoal briquettes. The whole charcoal carbonizing process can be divided into the following three stages:

Carbonization Furnace

1. Briquettes Drying Stage. From the ignition until the temperature reach 160℃, the biomass sticks moisture evaporates steadily mainly depends on the heating resource and independent burning value. There is no chemical changes in this stage
2. Initial Carbonization Stage. This process mainly depends on the briquettes burning to produce heat and makes the temperature rise to 160～280℃. The biomass briquettes start to have thermal deposition. For example, the hemicellulose decompose into CO2, CO and amount of acetic acid.
3. Comprehensive Carbonizing Stage(temperature 300～650℃). In this stage, the biomass material undertake chemical decomposition radically. It produces much acetic acid, carbinol and woo tar as well as combustible gas including methane and ethylene. These gas contributes to making a high temperature and the biomass briquettes are distilled into charcoal.

If you want to make pyrocarbon, the furnace temperature should reach 800℃～1000℃.

Charcoal Briquette Demand in Kenya

Wood fuel, petroleum and electricity are three main sources of energy in Kenya. And now the charcoal briquettes made from the wastes such as sawdust, bagasse, coffee husks, wheat straws etc, have also become more and more important considering the pressure on the nation’s forestry resources and sustainable development.

1. Demand from urban and peri-urban households
Urban and peri-urban households account for a large section of Kenya’s demand for cooking and heating fuel and are very important target markets for charcoal briquette. Most urban and peri-urban consumers desire a smokeless fuel, and charcoal briquettes can meet this need.

Charcoal Briquettes

• Most urban and peri-urban consumers have the compatible cooking equipment for charcoal briquettes.
• The burn time of charcoal briquettes is higher than competing fuels,which can meet the need of cooking and heating. 
• The urban and peri-urban people have the awareness of protect the forests and environment, which will make them turn to the charcoal briquette. Furthermore, they have the money to buy the more expensive fuel.

2. Demand from rural households

• Demand from rural households is relatively low because the firewood can be collected for free in the surrounding areas or bought cheaply in the nearest areas. But, there also have potential demand for charcoal briquette. Collecting and storing firewood is inconvenient and people are willing to pay for the charcoal briquette.
• Some of the consumers feel safer if they want to cook indoors at night. Because the charcoal briquette will produce less smoke. 
• The advantages of charcoal are very attractive to the rural people, such as the long burning time, which will save their money to some extent.

Raw Materials For Making Charcoal Briquettes

The most common materials are coconut shell, sawdust, woodchips, bamboo shavings, tree bark, chestnut shell, cotton stalk, sesame stalk, corn stalk, sunflower stalk, soybean stalk, rice husk, sugarcane bagasse, corncob, etc. The material diameter must be less than 6mm and moisture is about 10%. The raw material piled density is 60-350 kg/m³, while the briquettes piled density is 1100-1400kg/m³. We can easily draw a conclusion that the briquettes density has greatly improved, so the combustion value also improves 30%-40%. After carbonization, the charcoal briquettes calorific value is 7000-8500 kilocalories. The burning time is 200 min/kg and carbon content is 75%-85%.

Azeus Charcoal Briquette Machinery Introduction

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Azeus Charcoal Briquette Machinery Vision & Mission

• Our mission is to achieve global leadership in providing professional solutions to our clients in utilizing biomass waste and convert it into valuable fuel, by combining technology expertise, domain skills, process focus and a commitment to long term client relationships.
• To widen and maintain customer base through technical innovation and superior services.
• To expand distributors and make it more convenient to serve customers.

Why Azeus Charcoal Briquette Machinery

1. Workshop with advanced and sophisticated tools and machinery.
2. Well experienced technical staff.
3. Continuous quality improvement.
4. Genuine and standard parts.
5. Extended services to our clients.
6. Confidence and trust for quality and service from customers.