Francisco Cruz

A vital stage in the large-scale production of biofuels from spent coffee grounds: The drying kinetics

Francisco Cruz, Fernando Cruz-Peragón, Pedro J. Casanova-Peláez et al. · Fuel Processing Technology · 2014 · 75 citations

Drying Kinetics, Biomass Conversion, Biofuel Production +10

Drying kinetics of olive stone: A valuable source of biomass obtained in the olive oil extraction

Francisco Cruz, Pedro J. Casanova-Peláez, José Manuel Palomar Carnicero et al. · Energy · 2014 · 39 citations

Food Chemistry, Olive Stone, Bioenergy +5

Determination of the drying rate and effective diffusivity coefficients during convective drying of two-phase olive mill waste at rotary dryers drying conditions for their application

Francisco Cruz, José Manuel Palomar Carnicero, Quetzalcóatl Hernández-Escobedo et al. · Renewable Energy · 2020 · 34 citations

Engineering, Desiccation, Convective Drying +6

Experimental determination of effective moisture diffusivity during the drying of clean olive stone: Dependence of temperature, moisture content and sample thickness

Francisco Cruz, José Manuel Palomar Carnicero, Pedro J. Casanova-Peláez et al. · Fuel Processing Technology · 2015 · 30 citations

Effective Moisture Diffusivity, Clean Olive Stone, Desiccation +1

Modeling of olive-oil mill waste rotary dryers: Green energy recovery systems

Francisco Cruz, Pedro J. Casanova-Peláez, José Manuel Palomar Carnicero et al. · Applied Thermal Engineering · 2015 · 23 citations

Engineering, Energy Analysis, Energy Efficiency +10