Engineers from Łukasiewicz – EMAG have developed the composition and production technology for ecological briquette. This solution allows achieving high reproducibility of the product, its ease of handling and low costs. The resulting fuel is suitable for both simple and most advanced boilers.

Researchers at Łukasiewicz – EMAG have developed an automatic line control system for the production of low-emission, qualified composite fuel. To produce it, waste fractions of high-quality raw materials and natural, organic binders are used.

The technology and the research line for composite fuel production were developed and manufactured as part of a research and development project carried out by a consortium of Łukasiewicz – EMAG Institute of Innovative Technologies and the EMAG Scientific and Industrial Centre in Katowice. The main objective of the project was to develop an environmentally friendly composite solid fuel for small and medium-sized boilers. The results of this project make it possible to efficiently and economically produce low-emission briquettes and mini-briquettes produced from coal dust.

The use of the resulting fuel will allow the use of new and existing class 5 and ecodesign (feeder) boilers, as well as boilers with bottom combustion. More than 4 million households in Poland are equipped with such installations. The properties of the fuel are expected to help reduce smog. Laboratory and field tests have confirmed that PM10 and PM 2.5 dust emissions are almost halved in relation to those produced by burning traditional lump coal.

The technology developed by Łukasiewicz – EMAG will soon be implemented at two of the country’s leading solid fuel producers.

Adrian Andrzejewski