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    Dry Leaf Fire Starter

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    Dry Leaf Fire Starter is a product made from dried leaves and paraffin wax that functions as a fuel to help with fire-making. It produces low amounts of smoke and soot, can sustain a flame for up to 10 minutes, and is durable as the high cellulose content keeps it intact. It addresses issues with current fire starters by being non-toxic, long-lasting, and easy to handle without breaking. The dry leaf and paraffin wax materials allow it to be produced at a low cost of RM3.00 per unit, making it commercially viable and more environmentally friendly than alternatives.

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    Dry Leaf Fire Starter

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    Dry Leaf Fire Starter is a product made from dried leaves and paraffin wax that functions as a fuel to help with fire-making. It produces low amounts of smoke and soot, can sustain a flame for up to 10 minutes, and is durable as the high cellulose content keeps it intact. It addresses issues with current fire starters by being non-toxic, long-lasting, and easy to handle without breaking. The dry leaf and paraffin wax materials allow it to be produced at a low cost of RM3.00 per unit, making it commercially viable and more environmentally friendly than alternatives.

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    Dry Leaf Fire Starter is a product made from dried leaves and paraffin wax that functions as a fuel to help with fire-making. It produces low amounts of smoke and soot, can sustain a flame for up to 10 minutes, and is durable as the high cellulose content keeps it intact. It addresses issues with current fire starters by being non-toxic, long-lasting, and easy to handle without breaking. The dry leaf and paraffin wax materials allow it to be produced at a low cost of RM3.00 per unit, making it commercially viable and more environmentally friendly than alternatives.

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    Dry Leaf Fire Starter

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    Daniel Ululazami
    Dry Leaf Fire Starter is a product made from dried leaves and paraffin wax that functions as a fuel to help with fire-making. It produces low amounts of smoke and soot, can sustain a flame for up to 10 minutes, and is durable as the high cellulose content keeps it intact. It addresses issues with current fire starters by being non-toxic, long-lasting, and easy to handle without breaking. The dry leaf and paraffin wax materials allow it to be produced at a low cost of RM3.00 per unit, making it commercially viable and more environmentally friendly than alternatives.

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    DRY LEAF FIRE

    STARTER
    KLUANG HIGH SCHOOL

    INTRODUCTION

    Dry Leaf Fire Starter is a product intuited to ease the process of


    making fire besides reducing production cost and pollution.
    What is really unique about this product is that it produces
    quite a low amount of soot during combustion. It also can be
    handled easily without breaking it apart and it also able to
    sustain a flame for a longer period of time than fire starters
    available in the market.

    MAKING METHODS

    D.L Fire Starter is made from dried leaves and paraffin wax.
    Paraffin wax is an excellent material for storing heat, with a
    specific heat capacity of 2.14-2.9 J g-1K-1 (joules per gram
    kelvin) and a heat of fusion of 200-220 J g-1 . The high content of
    cellulose acts as binder to keep the product intact, thus making
    this product easier to be handled and carried as it does not
    break into small pieces easily.

    PROBLEM STATEMENT

    One of the problems that we have found is that most of the


    available fire starters in the market are quite harmful if the
    fumes are being inhaled due to the content of substanes like
    hexamine.

    Most of the ready-to-use fire starter products can only sustain


    a flame for a short duration which is around 6 minutes.

    The available fire starter products are quite difficult to be


    handled as they are prone to break into pieces.

    DESIGN CRITERIA

    Function
    Functions as a fuel to help fire-making especially for outdoor
    activities such as camping. Variations in size are specified for
    certain uses, e.g. bigger size for cooking etc.

    Durability
    High content of cellulose maintains the shape of the product.
    Able to sustain a flame for 9 minutes.

    Material compatibility
    -Dry leaves
    a. High content of cellulose helps to keep the product intact; reducing
    the tendency to break when mishandled.
    b. Cellulose is also a type of carbohydrate that is really difficult to be
    broken down, thus the fire starter product can be kept for an
    extended period of time without breaking apart.
    c. Dry leaves are pretty easy to find in most places. Almost all types of
    dry leaves can be used to make this product.

    -Paraffin wax; hentriacontane, C31H64


    a. Excellent material for storing heat, with a specific heat capacity
    of
    2.14-2.9 J g-1K-1 (joules per gram kelvin) ad a heat of fusion of
    200220 J g-1 .
    b. Gives out a temperature of around 1000 C when set a flame.
    c.
    Acknowledged for its low reactivity and low toxicity, this
    material is
    clearly better than hexamine to be used in places with high
    humidity

    ESTIMATED COST
    NO.

    MATERIALS

    1.

    DRY LEAVES

    2.

    PARAFFIN (500 ML )

    RM1.80

    3.

    WAX / CANDLES

    RM1.20

    TOTAL

    COST(RM)
    -

    RM3.00

    COMMERCIAL VALUE

    Dry Leaf Fire Starter possess a high commercial value as it only cost
    RM3.00 per 10 units of 10 grams (1000 Korea Won) each to produce it.

    This product is able to sustain a flame for up to 10 minutes.

    More eco-friendly as it only releases low amount of smoke and soot


    during burning.

    The residue of this product can decompose.

    The blue flame produced shows complete burning

    The dry leaf fire starter has no expired date.

    CONCLUSION

    As a conclusion, this product has a really good commercial value


    as it fulfils the criteria needed because nowadays people around
    the world need and invention that an reduce the cost besides
    easy to handle. This product is also fairly cheap to be produced,
    as it only needs dry leaves and paraffin as main components.
    This product also can sustain a flame for a longer period than fire
    starter products available in the market. We really hope that this
    product can be commercialized in the future as it is fairly cheap
    to be produced and very useful.

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