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Charcoal Briquette vs Sawdust Charcoal

Charcoal Briquette and Sawdust Charcoal

Sometimes, we think that Charcoal Briquette and Sawdust Charcoal are the same product. But as it turns out, the two words literally represent two different products.

Charcoal Briquette

Charcoal Briquettes or commonly called Charcoal Briquette is a type of charcoal and briquettes made using ready-made charcoal raw materials, either wood charcoal or shell charcoal which is crushed into powder and then printed into briquettes.

The production process that occurs in making charcoal briquettes are:

  1. The charcoal that will be used as raw material is sorted and screened first to separate the garbage or dirt that is still mixed in the sack to produce pure charcoal which is ready to be processed into powder.
  2. Charcoal raw materials, both wood charcoal and shell charcoal, are crushed into powder or powder using an ordinary flour machine using a disk mill or ball crusher.
  3. The charcoal that has become powder is then mixed with tapioca a maximum of 3% of the weight of the raw charcoal using a mixer machine until all the ingredients are thoroughly mixed.
  4. After all the ingredients are thoroughly mixed, add a little water to make the dough knead and ready to be processed in the molding and blending machine to further strengthen the mixture.
  5. After the material comes out of the molding and blending process, the dough is ready to be printed using an extrude mold according to production needs.
  6. The printed charcoal briquettes are then processed by drying or airing to slightly reduce the water content before entering the drying oven.
  7. After reaching a certain dryness, the charcoal briquettes are put into the oven to achieve maximum dryness at a moisture content of up to 6% for approximately 20 hours.
  8. After drying, the charcoal briquettes are ready to be packaged as needed.
  9. The above process is the process of producing charcoal briquettes using a manual extrude screw machine.

For the production process of charcoal briquettes using a hydraulic machine, here is the process:

  1. The charcoal that will be used as raw material is sorted and screened first to separate the garbage or dirt that is still mixed in the sack to produce pure charcoal which is ready to be processed into powder.
  2. Charcoal raw materials, both wood charcoal and shell charcoal, are crushed into powder or powder using an ordinary flour machine using a disk mill or ball crusher.
  3. The charcoal that has become powder is then mixed with tapioca a maximum of 3% of the weight of the raw charcoal using a mixer machine until all the ingredients are thoroughly mixed.
  4. After all the ingredients are thoroughly mixed, add a little water to make the dough knead.
  5. After the material is kneaded, the dough is ready to be printed using hydraulics according to the needs of the shape and size of the product.
  6. The printed charcoal briquettes are then processed by drying or airing to slightly reduce the water content before entering the drying oven.
  7. After reaching a certain dryness, the charcoal briquettes are put into the oven to achieve maximum dryness at a moisture content of up to 6% for approximately 20 hours.
  8. After drying, the charcoal briquettes are ready to be packaged as needed.
  9. Because according to the process, charcoal briquettes are made with charcoal as raw material which is made into briquettes, so the name of this product is Charcoal Briquettes.

Sawdust Charcoal

Charcoal Briquettes or commonly called Briquette Charcoal or has another name Charcoal Briquette Sawdust or Sawdust Charcoal and Yakitori Charcoal and also Ogatan Charcoal is a type of charcoal made from raw materials of sawdust which is pressed into briquettes and then processed into charcoal using a carbonization furnace kiln so as to produce one of the charcoal briquettes which has the best quality compared to other types of charcoal.

The production process that occurs in making charcoal briquettes are:

  1. The raw material for sawdust is mixed into the loader for mixing of various types of hardwood and compositions of other types of wood.
  2. The sawdust that has entered the loader is run using a conveyor to enter the rotary mixer which is shaped like a cement truck mixer.
  3. After the powder passes through the mixer, the powder is put into a rotary dryer or cyclone dryer to produce wood powder that has maximum dryness.
  4. The very dry sawdust is further processed into a briquette press machine to produce wood briquettes which are pressed with several tons of strength to produce strong and dense briquettes.
  5. The finished wood briquettes are then put into a carbonization kiln or kiln furnace to be processed into charcoal through a complete carbonization process for approximately 7 days and cooling for 7 days.
  6. After the carbonization and cooling process is complete, the charcoal briquettes ready to be packaged as needed.

Thus our explanation of the difference between charcoal briquettes and charcoal briquettes that maybe not everyone, consumers, and even charcoal and briquette producers themselves know that there is a difference between the terms charcoal briquettes and charcoal briquettes.