Taivalmaan puutarha, a tomato farm in Western Finland, recently adopted a new two-hectare greenhouse. What makes the greenhouse special is the new kind of burner that fires liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to produce carbon dioxide for the plants.
Innovative combustion technology helps tomatoes grow faster by producing carbon dioxide directly into the greenhouse. Carbon dioxide fertilization can increase crop growth by as much as 50 per cent. When firing LPG, the nitrous oxide (NOx) emissions of Oilon’s LN30 burners are exceptionally low, no more than 10–30 ppm.
“I selected the Oilon burner especially due to its low NOx emissions. Another reason was that it is a Finnish product,” says the farm’s owner Robert Åman.
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