Abstract:
The waste of timber industry can be utilized to produce
some valuable products. A research had been conducted to
study such possibility. The research was to study the conversion
of wood into charcoal briquetting using adhesive or heating
process. Result showed that the heating value of charcoal
briquetting made from kempas wood (koompassia malaccensis
maing), meranti (shorea spp.) and pulai (alstonia spp)
increases significantly compared to that of raw material. The
product made from kempas wood (koompassia malaccensis
maing.) was formed to have the highest energy per cc (density)
followed by those of made of meranti (shorea spp.), ramin
(gonystylus bancanus kurz.). However, raw material
availability must be consideret in establishing charcoal
briquetting industry
