Globally, the growing production of food commodities generates significant quantities agroindustrial residues, most which are untreated and disposed as waste through either burning, dumping into land, or unplanned landfilling, thereby causing environmental pollution, public health problems, decreased soil organic matter productivity. A literature review has been conducted on current crop residu...

This work presents an alternative for adding value to greenhouse crop residues, used (1) heating and (2) as a CO2 source. Both options are focused on agricultural production, but could be applied other applications. The influence of factors, such the air/fuel rate turbulence inside combustion chamber, is studied. Our results show that pine pellets, olive pits, tomato-crop blend latter mixed wit...