Student develops banana cooking fuel

We have all heard of "green" fuel. Now get ready for yellow fuel!
Scientists at The University of Nottingham are looking at ways to use that waste to produce fuel, developing simple methods of producing banana briquettes that could be burnt for cooking and heating. PhD student Joel Chaney in the Faculty of Engineering has developed a method of producing the briquettes using minimal tools and technology, which could be used in communities throughout Africa.
Joel Chaney hopes by using this method it could provide a big boost to people in the Third World who can spend four or five hours a day just collecting firewood. Also, it would help to reduce deforestation, which makes a significant contribution to global climate change.
The idea came about on a recent trip to Africa where Joel found out how a large part of the fruit is allowed to rot. With this in mind, Joel developed a method of turning what is left of bananas - the skin, leaves and stems - into briquettes for cooking.
The process is simple - firstly he mashes the banana skins and leaves into a pulp then uses paper and sawdust to create a mouldable material, though in African countries this would be exchanged for sun-dried banana stems.
The pulp is then compressed into briquette before being baked in an oven. In Africa, the oven part could be changed for just leaving the briquettes to dry in the sun.
The team has also worked out the burn rate of the briquettes they have made - How many handfuls of sawdust to a ​handful of banana skins via a set of scales and a computer programme.
His idea has begun to attract a number of commercial opportunities that have approached the University team.

[@miyandahaakamata1235]

Thank you so much for the teaching..some of us it's our first time watching this video nd God bless the works of your hands

[@nathandiano_62]

Thanks for Sharing this information...i want to try this one as alternative for cooking.

[@edgarbellingan4160]

Can we make it using all banana by substituting paper with a dried banana leaves and skin?

[@FBPrepping]

Just for the record, there are some parts of the 3rd world where sawdust and paper can't be found because there's no even power to produce them in the first place. Don't ask me how I know this...

[@apituraga9488]

Smash up the banana trunk, and hang them to dry, and you will have fiber as good as paper. That will do for both saw dust and paper.

[@LChism-wx3qy]

Thanks for sharing the information.

[@bowhunter69]

Lmao so what does the banana skin actually do ? Looks like a filler to me . Paper and sawdust would work just as well without the skins 🤣

[@allor.nothing]

Really helpful

[@lorgannjoroge4870]

Nothing new here , our ancestors used to do this , this is already overtaken by time ..... let them think of something better

[@heatherjolly8389]

I don't really get why adding the bananas does anything? The paper IS the fuel!

[@ngrobert5054]

Can join research

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