PERBANDINGAN BIOMASSA PERTANIAN SEBAGAI ENERGI TERBARUKAN BRIKET ARANG

Abstract

. Briquettes are renewable energy sourced from agricultural waste and used as a household fuel. The availability of farm or plantation waste is a good impetus for developing environmentally friendly briquette fuels. This study aims to determine the characteristics of briquettes from various types of agricultural biomass. The research was carried out at the Laboratory of the Faculty of Agriculture, Madako Tolitoli University, from May to June 2020. This study used a completely randomized design (CRD) with one factor: the type of briquettes consisting of 4 levels of treatment: coconut shell, coconut fiber, rice husk, and corn cobs. Each treatment was repeated three times so that there were 12 research units. The results showed that various types of biomass produced the characteristics of briquettes with better quality, which can be seen from the research parameters of moisture content, burning time, combustion speed, and density. Coconut shell biomass has more noticeable results to the moisture content obtained is 1.76%, burning time is 215.26 minutes, combustion speed is 0.005 gr/second, and density is 0.57 gr/cc.