Successful production of rice husk firewood

Hoa An Center for Biodiversity and Experimental Research (Hoa An commune, Phung Hiep commune, Hau Giang province) has produced rice husk firewood to contribute to resolving stagnant rice husk at seriously polluting mills. Mekong Delta environment.

Rice husk firewood is made by a three-phase electric press. Rice husks pour into the funnel above, the machine will squeeze and extrude below the round sticks up to 1 meter long. Firewood sticks with a diameter of 7.5 cm, a ring shape with a round hole in the middle for flammability. About 20 cm of rice husk fire weighs 1 kg and with 1 kg can cook meals for 4 people. The capacity of 70-80 kg of rice husk firewood / hour and electricity consumption of 6-7 KW / h. 1.05 kg of rice husk made 1 kg of rice husk firewood.

Normal rice husk firewood like other types of wood, can be used with many types of stoves and ovens. When cooking, it is possible to chop the rice husk into many short pieces. To group the kitchen, chop firewood into a few thin pieces, the fire is very flammable. In particular, burning rice husk wood with less smoke also smells fragrant . like rice husk and flowing more than burning rice husk.

Hoa An Biodiversity Research Center of Can Tho University, was born on August 8, 2008 and has just produced rice husk firewood but many people have been looking to buy it. Mainly owners of agricultural products drying kilns. A kiln drying owner in Ninh Kieu district, Can Tho city bought 5-6 tons / day.

Rice husk firewood price is still high, 1,000 VND / kg, of which the cost of transporting 1 kg of rice husk from the rice milling plant to the center has lost 200 VND. The Center's engineers explained, the price will be much lower if large quantities are produced.

In particular, the goal of the study is to transfer rice husk plants that are currently headaches with heaps of rice husk as high as possible. If they can be done, the price of rice husk firewood will be competitive with other fuels.