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Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2008, 9, 512-525 International Journal of Molecular Sciences ISSN 1422-0067 © 2008 by MDPI /ijms Full Research Paper Combustion Analysis of Different Olive Residues Teresa Miranda 1,*, Alberto Esteban 2, Sebastián Rojas 1, Irene Montero 1 and Antonio Ruiz 1 1 Department of Mechanical, Energetic and Materials Engineering, Industrial Engineering School, University of Extremadura, Avda. Elvas s/n, 06071 Badajoz, Spain. Tel.: +34 924289600, Fax: +34 924289601. 2 Department of Energy, CIEMAT, Avda. Complutense, 22, Madrid 28040, Spain. Tel.: +34 913466701; Fax: +34 913466269 E-mails: tmiranda@unex.es (T.M.); a.esteban@ciemat.es (A.E.); srojas@unex.es (S.R.); imontero@unex.es (I.M.); aruiz@unex.es (A.R.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. E-Mail: tmiranda@unex.es Received: 22 January 2008; in revised form: 5 March 2008 / Accepted: 31 March 2008 / Published: 4 April 2008 Abstract: The Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) techniques and concretely the study of the burning profile provide information that can be used to estimate the behaviour of the combustion of carbonous materials. Commonly, these techniques have been used for the study of carbons, but are also interesting for the analysis of biomass wastes, due to the different species present on the wastes affect directly to its thermal properties. In this work, techniques of thermal analysis have b