<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><article><front><Journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type='publisher'>CWE/626/2017</journal-id><journal-title >Current World Environment</journal-title><issn pub-type='PPub'>0973-4929</issn><issn pub-type='ePub'>2320-8031</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Enviro Research Publishers</publisher-name></publisher></Journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type='other'>CWE--31-00</article-id><title-group><article-title>Physicochemical Propertieso Briquettes from Different Feed Stock</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id='aff001'><sup>1</sup><instname></instname>,<deptname>Polytechnic in Agricultural Engineering</deptname>, <instaddress>Anand Agricultural University</instaddress>, <instcity>Dahod</instcity>, <instcountry>India</instcountry>.</aff><pub-date pub-type='ppub'><publicationDate>2015-04-30</publicationDate></pub-date><doi>10.12944/CWE.10.1.32</doi><volume>Volume 10</volume><issue>Volume 10</issue><page>263-269</page><abstract><title>Abstract</title><p>This study was undertaken to evaluate the Physico-chemical properties of eight &amp;nbsp;different types of biomass feed stock and their briquettes were studied among that some properties which are influence their storage and combustion properties like Equilibrium moisture content (EMC %) and Relative humidity (%). Equilibrium moisture content are found out by static equilibrium technique using aqueous glycerol solutions of different concentrations in the relative humidity (RH) range of 40 to 90 % and at ambient temperature between 25 to 37 &amp;ordm;C. The Equilibrium moisture content of briquettes was lower than their feedstock by about 1 &amp;ndash; 2.5 % in all the cases ranges from 40 to 70 % RH. At higher RH above 70%, the difference was between 2 - 4%. There was no change in the shape of the briquettes at all levels of RH. This was due to higher density of briquettes. This study showed during period of high humidity, the storage of briquettes will not create any problem and will be safer as compared to their feedstock.</p></abstract><kwd-group><title>Keywords</title><kwd>Biomass feedstocks</kwd><kwd> EMC of biomass and briquettes</kwd><kwd> Relative humidity</kwd></kwd-group><counts><ref-count count='' /><page-count count='' /></counts></article-meta></front></article>