Abstract
End face combustion, burned an end face of highly densified biomass briquette one-dimensionally, is proposed since it might facilitate to control the fuel consumption rate. In this study, the behavior of the end face combustion was investigated with cylindrical and columned briquette. The influence of fuel supply rate and the briquette shape on the fuel mass loss rate was measured. The mass loss rate of the cylindrical briquette increases with increasing the fuel supply rate (from 2 mm/min to 6 mm/min). In case the fuel supply rate is equal to 4 mm/min with the cylindrical briquette, it was observed that the period mass loss rate stays almost constant.
