Assessment of the Energy Potential and Elemental Composition

The study is aimed to determine the elemental composition and calorific values of some Northern Nigerian rice husks using X-ray fluorescence and Bomb Calorimeter respectively. It also involves determination of percentage concentration of each element in the rice husk and it relationship to the energy potential. In this study, it enlightens the characteristics futures that makes it to be more valuable. Thermo fisher energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence helps in the elemental analysis which produced results in part per million and were converted to percentage concentration. Likewise CAL-3K bomb calorimeter having some latest futures of operation provided the calorific values of rice husk without any much task of temperature correction which ranges from 17.19 MJ/kg – 10.04 MJ/kg. The results of the elemental analysis of rice husk samples using the XRF spectrometric technique revealed the presence of a total of thirteen elements Si, Rb, K, Ca, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Br, Sr, P, and Cl. but the major elements are eleven. In all the twenty samples only two Local Governments show some differences in the elemental composition.