Company Blog 2025-06-26

How Is Charcoal Made Industrially?

The core principle of charcoal making is through high temperature oxygen-poor atmosphere conditions. The organic matter in the wood is decomposed and the carbon element is retained. Modern mechanism charcoal is the mainstream process, more suitable for industrial production.

 

Production of industrial mechanism charcoal

 

Raw Material Selection And Pre-treatment

Raw materials for industrial charcoal come from a wide range of sources, such as wood chips, sawdust, shavings, fruit shells, coconut shells and other agricultural wastes can be utilised. The raw materials need to be crushed to 3-5mm granules. The moisture content of the fibrous material should also be controlled at 8-12%. If it is pine shavings and peanut shells mixed at 7:3 can enhance the combustion value of the finished product. If the charcoal is made of bamboo chips, the hardness will be higher.

 

Drying And Moulding Key Process

The dryer adopts three-layer drum structure. The temperature can be gradually increased from 80℃ to 120℃. So that the water content in the raw material will be to 8%. The charcoal briquette machine softens the lignin through 320℃ high temperature and extrudes hexagonal pay sticks under high pressure of 1.8MPa. The wood sticks produced have a mirror-like luster on the cross section and sink when they are in water.
 

charcoal briquette machine

 

Intelligent Pyrolysis Control for Carbonation Furnace

The carbonation furnace is divided into three zones: preheating stage (200-300°C), pyrolysis stage (350-550°C), and calcination section (600-800°C). A micro-negative atmosphere environment can be maintained by adjusting the air inlet and flue gate. The carbonisation furnace can be equipped with PLC intelligent control system. Precise temperature control. Greatly shorten the carbonisation time.

 

How Is Charcoal Made Industrially?

 

Environmental protection policy requirements in different regions. The whole set of charcoal making machine can be equipped with flue gas purification system. If entrepreneurs give priority to agricultural waste. Both can reduce the cost of raw materials . It can also avoid the native forest. In the process of producing charcoal, the oxygen content and temperature gradient in the carbonisation stage are precisely controlled . It is the core secret of producing high quality charcoal.