VIAMALA BRIQUETTES

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Viamala briquettes are affordable than most existing fuel costs, efficient since they have a higher calorific value and have long burning and heat content. They are user-friendly and clean, smokeless. The coconut waste briquettes serve the community with a source of clean energy and reduce deforestation. Recent evidence also demonstrates that advanced (efficient and low emission) cook stoves and fuels can reduce black carbon emissions by 50-90%. Since the atmospheric lifetime of black carbon is only a few days, reducing black carbon emissions can bring about a more rapid climate response than reductions in carbon dioxide and other long-lived greenhouse gases alone. In addition to having an immediate impact on the climate, reducing black carbon emissions would have a regional effect. The overall objective of the project is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by producing and supply of carbonized biomass briquettes from sawdust, coconut shells and Husks in Mombasa. Widely available in Coast Province in the form of leaves, shells and coir (fibrous husks) of coconuts that are sold at market or spoilt windfall. Used in other ways such as house roofing and direct burning as a fuel the waste has not yet been exploited as a briquette feedstock. Turning coconut waste into high quality biomass briquettes is a promising opportunity for increasing access to renewable energy options for the population in areas, where deforestation is a problem. The purpose of this project is to promote development of green enterprises in the production and supply of biomass briquettes.

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