Design and Development of Automatic Charcoal Briquette Machine Controlled by Programmable Logic Controllers
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The objective of this research was to design, develop and test the functionality of an automatic charcoal briquette machine controlled by a programmable logic controller with a width of 1.7 m., a length of 1.5 m., and a height of 1.2 m. The programmable logic controller was designed to control the operation of a mixing system and the length of the charcoal bar. It was found that the automatic control system of the machine could control the start and stop the machine’s operation according to the conditions specified by the user. The dispensing system and the charcoal bar length could be operated according to the user's setting. The developed machine could compress the charcoal briquettes almost to perfection with a quality rate of up to 95 %. The work efficiency (calculated from time) was found to be 87 %. The average density of the charcoal bars was found to be 1.09 g/cm3. The average horizontal pressure strength of the bars was found to be 204.86 newtons. The machine had the capacity to produce 1,590 charcoal bars per hour and had a power consumption rate of 2.55 watts per hour.
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