Eleventh International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses

Abstract

The utilization of wood is increasing on daily basis especially in the less technologically developed countries of the world. Heavy reliance on wood for domestic and industrial applications would lead to deforestation or desertification. This paper therefore, reviews the development and potentials of briquettes from the waste wood (sawdust) resulting from the main waste from timber processing mills in Nigeria. This is with a view to evaluating its potentials for domestic energy use. The results showed that this wood wastes currently lacks a useful purpose, and its indiscriminate burning generates CO2 emissions. The relative high heating values of the briquettes biomass materials indicated that they can be a very good alternative source of energy for domestic cooking. These residues are available, indigenous and are environmental friendly but some cannot be directly use due high moisture content and low volumetric energy values unless by briquetting. The heating values of briquettes from some selected wood species were presented in the paper.