Economic sensitivity of wood biomass utilization for greenhouse heating application

Determining the effect of storage conditions on the natural drying of radiata pine logs for energy use

“…For the same reason, use efficiency must be maximised, by best allocation and quality upgrading. Different sources will generate fuel types with different quality characteristics, affecting the choice and the performance of the conversion technology (Chau et al 2009). The most important physical characteristic of wood fuels is moisture content, which determines heating value, storage properties and transport costs (Petterson and Nordfjell 2007;Hall 2000, EECA 2010 and is generally integrated in the fuel pricing structure (Spinelli et al 2010).…”

Financial cost-benefit analysis of investment possibilities in district heating system on wood residues

“…Akhtari et al (Akhtari, Sowlati, & Day, 2014), Schmidt et al (Schmidt, Leduc, Dotzauer, Kindermann, & Schmid, 2010), Steubing et al (Steubing, Zah, & Ludwig, 2012), Chau et al (Chau, Sowlati, Sokhansanj, Preto, Melin, & Bi, 2009), Johnston and Kooten (Johnston & Kooten, 2015). Groscurth et al (Groscurth, Almeida, De, Bauen, Costa, & Ericson, 2000) provided a comprehensive analysis of the economic and environmental performance of the energy use of biomass for selected existing facilities.…”

“…in O'Mahoney et al (O'Mahoney, Thorne, & Denny, 2013) a Cost-Benefit Analysis of generating electricity from biomass was conducted considering the long term effects of co-firing with biomass in Irish peat stations. Some of the studies provide economic assessment and financial analysis of the use of wood waste biomass for heating are focused on aspects such as the supply chain ( Whalley, Klein, & Benjamin, 2017), (Alam, Pulkki, Shahi, & Upadhyay, 2012), transportation costs (Verani et al, 2015), feasibility of using wood biomass to produce heat (Chau et al, 2009), and potential availability of wood biomass (Macfarlane, 2009). Vallios et al (Vallios, Tsoutsos, & Papadakis, 2009) presented a methodology of the design of biomass district heating systems taking into consideration the optimum design of building structure and urban settlement around the plant.…”

The influence of biomass quality on the stability and sustainability of district heating systems of low-accumulation objects

“…Due to variable biomass quality, there is stressed drive instability between the thermal source and thermal energy consumers with frequent oscillations, especially at low-accumulation objects that require a lot of time to heat up, but rapidly cool down [1,2]. Unbalanced combustion, variable thermal load on the heat exchange surface of the boiler, presence of various non-combustible matters and deposits on the heat exchange surfaces, as well as slow achieving of work temperature of the heating medium are frequent occurrences during the incineration of chipped wood mass, which affect the efficiency and safety of a thermal power plant drive, as well as the sustainability and stability of the district heating system [3,4,5,6,7].…”