Potential harvest for wood fuels (energy wood) from logging residues and first thinnings in Southern Finland

Abstract A survey of 278 sawmills and other sources of wood residues in Georgia revealed that wood fuels were available at $3.86 to $5.69 per ton FOB, the source. Unsold wood residues were available in volumes necessary to meet the needs of 7 of 14 firms considering use of wood fuels. If these nonforest product firms converted to wood fuels, the savings in annual energy costs would range from 23 to 57 percent, depending upon the fossil fuel currently being used. However, other firms would have to either pay prices higher than $6 per ton for wood residues or purchase logging residues in order to generate the supply of wood fuels necessary to meet their requirements.

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04/01878 Tendency of wood fuels from whole trees, logging residues and roundwood to bridge over openings

Fuel and Energy Abstracts ◽

10.1016/s0140-6701(04)94465-7 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 45 (4) ◽

pp. 261

Keyword(s):

Logging Residues ◽

Wood Fuels

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Tendency of wood fuels from whole trees, logging residues and roundwood to bridge over openings

Biomass and Bioenergy ◽

10.1016/s0961-9534(03)00101-6 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 107-113 ◽

Cited By ~ 41

Author(s):

Peter Daugbjerg Jensen ◽

Jan Erik Mattsson ◽

Pieter D. Kofman ◽

Achim Klausner

Keyword(s):

Logging Residues ◽

Wood Fuels

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Efficiency of Forest Chip Supply Systems in Northwest Russia

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.740.799 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 740 ◽

pp. 799-804 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Yuri Sukhanov ◽

Alexander Seliverstov ◽

Yuri Gerasimov

Keyword(s):

Wood Chip ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Production Method ◽

Local Market ◽

Logging Residues ◽

Energy Wood ◽

User Facility ◽

The Republic ◽

Different Origins ◽

Supply Systems

Northwest Russia has significant volumes of woody biomass of different origins that are available for energy, butwoodis not widely used as fuel.Four alternatives of forest chip supply systems were compared in the Republic of Kareliawith the support systemand the most favorable methods of wood chip production were determined by the local market conditions. The collection of logging residues for chipping is cost-effective if the distance to the customer is less than 100 km. The use of round energy wood for the production of forest chips compared with the use of logging residues is more economically feasible. In this case, forest chips can be transported up to 150 km. The availability of logging residues largely depends on the load-bearing capacity of the soil at harvesting sites. When considering the local market, a production method based on chipping energy wood at the end user facility has the best economic efficiency.

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Energieholzproduktion in Mittel- und Nieder-wäldern der Schweiz | Energy Wood Production in Coppice With Standards and Coppice Forests in Switzerland

Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen ◽

10.3188/szf.1999.0142 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 150 (4) ◽

pp. 142-147

Author(s):

Bettina Bally

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Economic Value ◽

Wood Production ◽

Fuel Production ◽

Energy Wood ◽

Short Rotation ◽

Energy Plantations ◽

Coppice With Standards

Coppice with standards and coppice forests are the result of silvicultural systems widely applied until the mid-twentieth century, mainly for fuel production. Similar to energy plantations in Scandinavia and Germany the above-mentioned systems are characterised by a short rotation. The present paper tries to show that, owing to efficient logging methods, energy wood can be produced from coppice and coppice with standards forests so cheaply that it proves to be highly competitive compared to oil. The economic value of coppice and coppice with standards was calculated on the basis of models and compared to high forest cultivation. Contrary to high forests, the coppice with standards system is cost-covering on poor, well developed and easily accessible sites.

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