Faecal sludge reuse - briquette carbonisation
Offers several technologies to advance safe sanitation management and could potentially contribute to energy poverty.
Abstract
In this paper, SNV and partners in Khulna City Corporation (KCC) explore the opportunities and challenges for producing, using, and marketing charcoal briquettes as one of several alternative fuel options. Concluding that biochar may be among the many 'eco-friendly fuels of the future,' the paper follows the journey taken by the SNV team in Bangladesh after being introduced by colleagues in Kenya to this method of transforming human waste into energy during an SNV learning event on urban sanitation.
Bibliography
SNV in Bangladesh, 'Faecal sludge reuse: producing fuel briquette and charcoal by carbonisation process', Action Research, Dhaka, SNV, 2022.
Contributors
Sk Shaker Ahmed (SNV), Md Abdul Aziz (Khulna City Corporation), and Fahim Rahman Rafi (Data)
Donors & Partners
Khulna City Corporation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
For more information
Sk Shaker Ahmed, Technical Programme Officer-Water, SNV in Bangladesh
