Costs and CO2 benefits of recovering, refining and transporting logging residues for fossil fuel replacement

There are many possible systems for recovering, refining, and transporting logging residues for use as fuel. Here we analyse costs, primary energy and CO2 benefits of various systems for using logging residues locally, nationally or internationally. The recovery systems we consider are a bundle system and a traditional chip system in a Nordic context. We also consider various transport modes and distances, refining the residues into pellets, and replacing different fossil fuels. Compressing of bundles entails costs, but the cost of chipping is greatly reduced if chipping is done on a large scale, providing an overall cost-effective system. The bundle system entails greater primary energy use, but its lower dry-matter...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Bioenergy, CO2 mitigation, Forest fuel, Logging residues, Logistics, All tags... Pellets, Fewer tags