“…Several studies have been conducted, where several binders have been tested in the production of briquettes from diverse biomass such as rice husk/cassava peel gel, rice husk/banana peel, maize cob/cassava peel gel, maize cob/banana peel, groundnut shell/cassava peel gel, groundnut shell/banana peel, sugarcane bagasse/cassava peel gel, sugarcane bagasse/banana peel (Abdulmalik et al, 2020;Idah et al, 2013;Miao et al, 2023;Rawat & Kumar 2022), coal fines/ sugarcane baggase binder (van der Westhuizen et al, 2023), charcoal fines and schizolobium parahyba var. amazonicum (paricá) wood (Dias Júnior et al ., 2020), spent coffee grounds/xanthan gum (Seco et al, 2019), coal fine-torrefied wood/pitch (Adeleke et al, 2021), idigbo (terminalia ivorensis) charcoal particles, pinewood pi (nus caribaea) sawdust/cassava peels (Ajimotokan et al, 2019), coal fines/polyacrylic binder (Botha et al, 2021), coal fines-sawdust/molasses (Manyuchi et al, 2018), and charcoal fines/African elemi (canarium schweinfurthii) resin (Kivumbi et al, 2021).…”