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Wood fuel comes in many forms like firewood, charcoal, wood chips, pellets and sawdust. The appropriate form depends on factors like source, quantity, quality and intended use. Wood is often the most easily accessible fuel source, requiring little to no tools to gather dead wood. Peat is partially decayed plant material that can be burned as a fuel when dried. It is used for heating and can be made into briquettes or powder for boilers. Coal is one of the most important fossil fuels and is a solid carbon-rich material primarily used to generate electricity by converting its combustion heat to steam to power turbines. Coke is made from coal or oil and has a high carbon content with

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Solid Fuel

Wood fuel comes in many forms like firewood, charcoal, wood chips, pellets and sawdust. The appropriate form depends on factors like source, quantity, quality and intended use. Wood is often the most easily accessible fuel source, requiring little to no tools to gather dead wood. Peat is partially decayed plant material that can be burned as a fuel when dried. It is used for heating and can be made into briquettes or powder for boilers. Coal is one of the most important fossil fuels and is a solid carbon-rich material primarily used to generate electricity by converting its combustion heat to steam to power turbines. Coke is made from coal or oil and has a high carbon content with

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Wood fuel can refer to several fuels such

as firewood, charcoal, wood chips sheets,

pellets, and sawdust. The particular form

used depends upon factors such as

source, quantity, quality and application.


In many areas, wood is the most easily

available form of fuel, requiring no tools

in the case of picking up dead wood, or

few tools.
a renewable energy source derived

from organic matter such as waste

wheat, straw, nut shells and other

fibrous material used as fuel to

produce heat or electricity.


Peat fuel is an accumulation of

partially decayed vegetation or

organic matter that can be burnt once

sufficiently dried.
Dried peat can be used as a fuel and burns

readily with a smoky flame and a

characteristic odor. Peat is used for

domestic heating purposes as an

alternative to firewood and forms a fuel

suitable for boiler firing in either

briquetted or pulverized form.


Coal is one of the most important primary

fossil fuels, a solid carbon-rich material

that is usually brown or black and most

often occurs in stratified sedimentary

deposits.Coal is primarily used as fuel to

generate electric power.The heat produced

by the combustion of the coal is used to

convert water into high-pressure steam,

which drives a turbine, which produces

electricity.
Coke is a grey, hard, and porous coal-based

fuel with a high carbon content and few

impurities, made by heating coal or oil in the

absence of air—a destructive distillation

process.The most common use of coke is as a

fuel for stoves, furnaces and blacksmithing.

It is sometimes preferred over coal because

burning coke produces very little smoke. It is

also used to produce iron in a blast furnace.

Coke is used to manufacture steel and many

other materials.
The heat available from each type of fuel is very variable, and depends on the carbon

and hydrogen content, as well as non-combustible or ash and water content. One

measure of the heat produced by burning is the Heat of combustion, an exact measure

usually determined using bomb calorimetry and demanding complete combustion to


carbon dioxide and water. Gaseous fuels like methane have higher values than solid

fuels like coal, and peat exhibits the lowest value of all common fuels. The actual heat

realized by any fuel will depend on the fireplace or combustion chamber used and its

design for example.


They are easy to transport.


They are convenient to store without any risk

of spontaneous explosion.
Their cost of production is low.
They possess moderate ignition temperature.

Their ash content is high.


They burn with clinker formation.
They combustion operations cannot be controlled easily.
Their cost of handling is high.
Their large proportion of heat is wasted during combustion.
Their thermal efficiency is low.
Their calorific value is lower as compared to that of liquids fuels.
They require a large excess of air for complete combustion.
They cannot be used as internal combustion engine fuels.

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