RnD-Africa: Three KNUST students Create Smokeless Charcoal

Did you know that smokeless charcoal exists in Ghana and even in Africa?

BidiGreen Ghana Limited, a company located in Kumasi is doing amazing

with its extraordinary charcoal that presents extra and amazing features.

This is what we bring you on RnD-Africa on AAU TV.

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BidiGreen Ghana Limited is a renewable energy company

that focuses on producing charcoal produced from crop waste

mostly coconut husk and pumpkin nut shell.

But we also rely on a variety of raw materials available based on demand.

Now BidiGreen burns three times longer.

It is smokeless and an efficient source of energy for cooking.

Firewood has for so long been a major source of energy for domestic purposes.

Along the line, innovative minds realized that a better substitute

could be made out of firewood just by burning it

and that is how charcoal is traditionally made.

The first criterion for production is to have very dry raw materials

with a moisture content of about from zero to fifteen percent to make production efficient.

It takes about six hours to fully carbonize all the crop waste.

What really makes BidiGreen innovative is the smokeless feature of the charcoal.

Cooks all over the world have been exposed to much more advanced means of cooking

such as a gas or an electric stove.