• NBV Lakshmi Kumari
• Sumair Khan
• Junaid Shareef
• Mohammed Abdul Rahman
• Akmal Yousuf Atheeb

Energy consumption in the rural sector of India, particularly is in the form of petroleum-based fuels, and now a days the utilization of these fuels has been increased rapidly .Such an increase in the fuel consumption will have a serious effect on all economic and domestic activity, particularly in the vast rural areas. As the usage of the fossil fuels have increased so much and it effects adversely on the health of every individual. Burning the fossil fuels such as wood, coal, kerosene gives off smoke and releases other harmful gases. In order to minimize theses effects an alternate cooking fuel is needed and one of the solutions is Fuel -Briquetting. Fuel Briquette can be made from any kind of organic waste, which is easily available the organic waste can be made into briquettes by mixing it with a thick solution of paper pulp. This mixture is then poured into a screw press to remove water and make them into solid pieces/briquettes. These briquettes can be dried and used as an alternative cooking fuel. Briquettes to produce from banana peels and saw dust are also going to be used through their compaction ratios and also to get the value of utilized heat produced. The study focuses on the design of briquetting machine and development of briquettes produced from banana peels and saw dust, as banana peel got high calorific value this has been used as one of the constituent in the fuel briquette produced. A production level type of briquetting machine is designed but low in cost is efficient and could be developed to transform agro-waste into fuel briquettes

Fuel, Fossil fuels,BioMass,Fuel Briquette, Cooking Fuel Key Words : Fuel, Fossil fuels,BioMass,Fuel Briquette, Cooking Fuel

"DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF SEMI AUTOMATIC FUEL BRIQUETTING MACHINE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.277-285, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812A37.pdf

"DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF SEMI AUTOMATIC FUEL BRIQUETTING MACHINE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp277-285, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812A37.pdf