**4. Conclusions**

The energy model design will provide sustainability to a specific proposal for the production of rice husk briquettes, from both an energetic and an environmental perspective, in which a quality product based on renewable energy is proposed. Additionally, from an economic and efficient perspective, the supply chain of all the resources corresponding to the production process is optimized and managed efficiently.

Furthermore, briquette production will generate the opportunity to recycle agricultural waste products from the rice industry, which is currently obliged to make use of them without burning in the vicinity of the city or agricultural areas, due to economic sanctions established by the municipal ordinances in the San Martín region. In addition, rice husk will be economically valued within the paddy rice value chain, as new markets will be opened, positioning briquettes as a viable alternative to firewood. Advantages such as heating capacity and reduced greenhouse gases are key, minimizing the rate of pulmonary and respiratory diseases in the population.

From an experimental analysis of different types of rice husk briquette, performed in the laboratory at the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (UPC), an ideal briquette prototype was obtained with a combustion efficiency of 80.39%, reducing the amount of kg used for food preparation by 30%. As for heating capacity, the briquette obtained a value of 4040 kcal/kg, which is greater than firewood. The briquettes made the water reach boiling point before firewood, which registered a temperature of 70° C when the briquette had already reached 100° C.

Finally, rice husk recycling will generate a circular economy within the paddy rice value chain, promoting an improved environmental culture in society through the development of clean technology, which focuses on the reduction of greenhouse gases, amounting to approximately 833,000 kg of CO2 per year, considering the protection of forest hectares and rice husk briquette production.

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**Author details**

Juan Arévalo1

Lima, Peru

Lima, Peru

provided the original work is properly cited.

, Grimaldo Quispe1

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and Carlos Raymundo2

1 Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC),

2 Department of Research, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC),

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*DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.81817*

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