Physico-chemical characteristics and market potential of sawdust charcoal briquette

International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-6

  Akowuah, Joseph O ^a   Kemausuor, Francis ^a   Mitchual, Stephen J ^b  

^a KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Demand and potential user's acceptability; Physico chemical characteristics; Sawdust charcoal briquettes

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEATING; SMOKE; SURVEYS;

BURNING CHARACTERISTICS; HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MARKET POTENTIAL; PHYSICO-CHEMICALS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; POTENTIAL USERS; VOLATILE MATTERS;

BRIQUETS;

EID: 84873052388     PISSN: 20089163     EISSN: 22516832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2251-6832-3-20     Document Type: Article

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