Economic and energy efficiency of salvaging biomass from wildfire burnt areas for bioenergy production in northwestern Ontario: A case study

Gautam, Shuva; Pulkki, Reino; Shahi, Chander; Leitch, Mathew

doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2010.06.001

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“… a Friesen ( 2013 ) b MacDonald et al ( 2012 ) c Average of Ralevic et al ( 2010 ), Ralevic ( 2013 ), Ryans and Cormier ( 2009 ), and Reynolds et al ( 2012 ) d Based on a weighted average cost for slashburning from Baxter ( 2010 ) e Average of Ralevic ( 2013 ), MacDonald et al ( 2012 ), Gautam et al ( 2010 ), and Kumar et al ( 2008 ) f Ralevic ( 2013 ), including grinding costs with pre-piling …”

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Climate change mitigation strategies in the forest sector: biophysical impacts and economic implications in British Columbia, Canada

Smyth

Lemprière

et al. 2017

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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Managing forests to increase carbon sequestration or reduce carbon emissions and using wood products and bioenergy to store carbon and substitute for other emission-intensive products and fossil fuel energy have been considered effective ways to tackle climate change in many countries and regions. The objective of this study is to examine the climate change mitigation potential of the forest sector by developing and assessing potential mitigation strategies and portfolios with various goals in British Columbia (BC), Canada. From a systems perspective, mitigation potentials of five individual strategies and their combinations were examined with regionally differentiated implementations of changes. We also calculated cost curves for the strategies and explored socio-economic impacts using an input-output model. Our results showed a wide range of mitigation potentials and that both the magnitude and the timing of mitigation varied across strategies. The greatest mitigation potential was achieved by improving the harvest utilization, shifting the commodity mix to longer-lived wood products, and using harvest residues for bioenergy. The highest cumulative mitigation of 421 MtCO2e for BC was estimated when employing the strategy portfolio that maximized domestic mitigation during 2017–2050, and this would contribute 35% of BC’s greenhouse gas emission reduction target by 2050 at less than $100/tCO2e and provide additional socio-economic benefits. This case study demonstrated the application of an integrated systems approach that tracks carbon stock changes and emissions in forest ecosystems, harvested wood products (HWPs), and the avoidance of emissions through the use of HWPs and is therefore applicable to other countries and regions.

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Climate change mitigation strategies in the forest sector: biophysical impacts and economic implications in British Columbia, Canada

Smyth

Lemprière

et al. 2017

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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“…Biomass currently requires fossil fuel combustion for its production, harvest, and supply; hence it would be a fallacy to simply identify bioenergy as emitting zero pollutants (Jing and Peidong 2011;Zhu et al 2011;Gautam et al 2010;Van Belle 2006). A wider approach including primary energy balances, CO 2 balances, transport modes, and distances would allow verifying if it is possible to transport biomass over long distances and still mitigate CO 2 emissions.…”

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Brazilian Lignocellulosic Wastes for Bioenergy Production: Characterization and Comparison with Fossil Fuels

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The aim of this paper was to analyze energy-related properties of forestry and agricultural wastes for energy production purposes, and to compare them with fossil fuels. The forestry wastes used were red cedar, Eucalyptus, and Pinus wood shavings. The agricultural wastes analyzed were rice husk, coffee wastes, sugar cane bagasse, maize harvesting wastes, and bamboo cellulose pulp. The forestry wastes presented more suitable properties for bioenergy production than the agricultural wastes. Desirable energetic properties were found for coffee wastes. The opposite was verified for rice husks. Among the biomass studied, coffee wastes presented the highest equivalent in fossil fuel volume and hence may lead to the highest decrease in CO 2 emissions by fossil fuels used in Brazil for steam and heat production. The results suggests that CO 2 benefits can be obtained if bioenergy is generated in the same locale where biomass is produced, avoiding CO 2 cost of logistics and leading to greater end-use efficiency. The present work promotes the widespread use of different lignocellulosic wastes for bioenergy production and gives useful information for the planning and the control of power plants using biomass.

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“…In contrast CO 2 emission in biomass-based energy production is less than 58 kg/MW. In addition, the use of biomass for energy production purposes saves 5840 and 4240 kg of CO 2 emissions annually in comparison to heavy fuel oil and natural gas, accordingly [61,62]. For example, one small settlement in Finland saves/replaces approximately 1.9 million liters of oil annually and reduces carbon dioxide emissions by about five million kg annually, due to forest energy production [55].…”

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Nordic Forest Energy Solutions in the Republic of Karelia

Gerasimov

Senko

2013

Forests

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Abstract:The situation in Karelia, a region in Northwest Russia, is analyzed in the context of forest energy. The annual potential energy available from wood harvesting is about 7 tera watt hours (TWh) (3.6 million m 3 ), which is equal to the total need of Karelia in energy for municipal heating. We point out that the contribution to the municipal economy, the moderate heating cost, the enhanced energy security in the cold Russian climate, the environmental friendliness, the better access to the forests and the utilization of the proven Nordic forest energy solutions (NFES) might have important consequences for strategy-making processes in forest energy development. For this purpose, connecting Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) with SWOT (internal strengths (S) or weaknesses (W) and external opportunities (O) or threats (T)) analysis is proposed to identify local operational strategies and assign priorities. Major threats include lack of government support, an insufficient road network, the dominance of extensive forest management, gasification and financial indiscipline. Analysis indicates that NFES are viewed positively for the Russian conditions. The forest biomass market has virtually unlimited opportunities for growth. Together, with the transition to intensive forest management, favorable policy in terms of forestry development programs can support bioenergy development. The advantageous location of existing power plants next to forests, increasing fossil fuel prices, the improvement of the road network and the availability of new technology are seen as potential opportunities for NFES. However, the results also indicate that there is substantial OPEN ACCESSForests 2013, 4 946 uncertainty and skepticism concerning how such markets benefit forest leaseholders who would like to adopt forest energy. The lack of bioenergy technology development, high transportation cost, low awareness of NFES, high demands for roads, the requirement for skilled specialists and wood fuel quality are the main weaknesses regarding the transfer of NFES to Karelia.

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Economic and energy efficiency of salvaging biomass from wildfire burnt areas for bioenergy production in northwestern Ontario: A case study

Cited by 25 publications

References 18 publications

Climate change mitigation strategies in the forest sector: biophysical impacts and economic implications in British Columbia, Canada

Climate change mitigation strategies in the forest sector: biophysical impacts and economic implications in British Columbia, Canada

Brazilian Lignocellulosic Wastes for Bioenergy Production: Characterization and Comparison with Fossil Fuels

Nordic Forest Energy Solutions in the Republic of Karelia

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