How to recycle coconut shells?

Coconuts are a kind of verycommon tropical fruit in South Asia and Southeast Asia. Every year, there are tons of coconut shells generated in tropical countries such as Indonesia and Thailand. Is it possible to convert the waste coconut shells into some useful products? Yes. Traditionally, people in tropical countries use coconut shells as fuel directly. In current situation, the traditional method seems unfriendly to environment.

Coconut shells are superior material for making shisha charcoal briquettes. For you information, apart from coconut shells, fruit trees are high-quality material for making shisha charcoal. Therefore, the best way to recycle coconut shells is to turn them into shisha charcoal briquettes.

What machines will be used in the production of making shisha charcoal? The main equipment includes carbonation furnaces and charcoal powder shaping machines.

To make shisha charcoal briquettes with the material of coconut shells, the first step is to turn raw coconut shells into charcoal powder. In general, the raw material needs to be crushed into small particles or powder by suitable crushing machines. Then the crushed material will be carbonized into charcoal powder.  

The other important process for making shisha charcoal from coconut shells is the forming process. In this procedure, you can use two types of charcoal briquette machines: the hydraulic shisha charcoal briquette machine and the rotary-type shisha charcoal briquette machine. The former one is mainly used to make cubic coconut charcoal briquettes and the latter one is more often used to make round or oval charcoal briquettes disc. You can choose one according to your need.

In addition to converting coconut shells into shisha charcoal briquette, you can also use coconut shells as material to make BBQ charcoal briquettes. For your reference, the charcoal briquettes made from coconut shells is one of the best BBQ charcoal.

All in all, coconut shells are excellent material for making charcoal products. For more information about recycling coconut shells, you are welcome to contact us!