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Converting Waste Agricultural Biomass into a Resource - UNEP

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industrial uses. It consists of molds, plungers, top sliding platen, common<br />

lever, fulcrum, steel plates where the molds are welded, and casing assembly.<br />

Investment and Operating Cost<br />

The FPRDI-developed carbonizer, adjudged second prize winner in the<br />

mechanical inventions category in 1984, is a simple, low-cost machine<br />

capable of carbonizing sawdust, rice hull, coconut coir dust and other<br />

carbonaceous fine materials. It has a rectangular trough, hopper, charcoal<br />

receiver, swing-type metal plate cover and fire box.<br />

Cost of Equipment : P 268,000 (1997)<br />

Capacity : 152 kg/hr.<br />

IRR : 52%<br />

NPV : P 380,900<br />

BCR : 1.24<br />

Payback period : 2 years<br />

Examples of Real Life Applications<br />

Forest Products Research and Development Institute<br />

Department of Science and Technology<br />

Sources:<br />

1. http://setup.dost.gov.ph/commerce.php?view=212<br />

2. http://community.uplb.edu.ph/fprdi/publications/techflow/tf2briquettor.ht<br />

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