Different charcoal briquettes

Machine-made charcoal briquettes are also called artificial charcoal, regeneration charcoal or clean charcoal. The density and the calorific value of the machine-made charcoal briquettes is high. What’s more, charcoal briquettes are smokeless, odourless and non-pollutant clean energy. Therefore, it is a kind of green and eco-friendly product in the international market. As the alternative energy source, it is widely praised.

There are many materials that can be used to make charcoal briquettes. For example, you can make use of rice husk, peanut shells, cotton shells, crushed corncob, crop stalks, sorghum stalks, saw dust, wood dust, wood shavings, coconut shells and bamboo dust. It is easy to understand that the quality of the finished charcoal briquettes varies with the different raw materials. 

According to the using purpose, there are mainly three kinds of charcoal briquettes in the market: shisha charcoal briquettes, BBQ charcoal briquettes and charcoal briquettes as fuel.

For the first kind of charcoal, shisha charcoal briquettes that are often be cubic or tablet-shape, people always use coconut shells and fruit tree powder as raw material to make this kind of charcoal product. Here is the reason. Shisha charcoal briquettes are used to be the heating source for Arabian hookah, so the shisha charcoal should be high-quality. And coconut shells and fruit tree powder are recognized the best material for making shisha charcoal briquettes.

For the second kind of charcoal briquette, BBQ charcoal briquettes, we often use saw dust, bamboo dust and wood shavings as raw materials. BBQ charcoal briquettes are used to cook food, so the quality of this kind of charcoal is also quite important. Of course, if you have coconut shells and wood dust of fruit trees, you can use them as material, and that will be much better.

For the third kind of charcoal, charcoal briquette as fuel, you can make use of a lot of woody stuff as material. For instance, you can make use of rice husk, wheat bran, ground-up green waste and so on.