Wood fuel quality of two Salix viminalis stands fertilised with sludge, ash and sludge-ash mixtures

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 914-925

  Adler, Anneli ^a,b   Dimitriou, Ioannis ^a   Aronsson, Pär ^a   Verwijst, Theo ^a   Weih, Martin ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Age of shoot population; Bark; Biofuel; Heavy metals; Nutrients; Planting density; Structure of shoot population; Willow

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; CADMIUM; COPPER; FUELS; GARNETS; HARVESTING; HEAVY METALS; METALS; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; MINING; NICKEL; NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SEWAGE; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SOFTWOODS; WOOD FUELS; ZINC;

AGE OF SHOOT POPULATION; ASH MIXTURES; BARK; BIOFUEL; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; FUEL QUALITY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MINERAL NUTRIENTS; NUTRIENTS; PLANTING DENSITIES; PLANTING DENSITY; RELATIVE PROPORTIONS; SALIX VIMINALIS; SHOOT BIOMASS; SHOOT POPULATION; SHORT-ROTATION; SITE CONDITIONS; SOIL TYPES; STAND STRUCTURES; STRUCTURE OF SHOOT POPULATION; WILLOW; WILLOW STANDS; WOOD-ASH;

WOOD;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ASH; BIOFUEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPICE; DECIDUOUS TREE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; HARVESTING; HEAVY METAL; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; ROTATION; SLUDGE; STAND STRUCTURE; WOOD QUALITY;

ASH; BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; BIOMASS; CADMIUM; COPPER; FERTILIZATION; FUELS; HARVESTING; HEAVY METALS; MIXTURES; NUTRIENTS; QUALITY CONTROL; RENEWABLE RESOURCES; SLUDGE; SOIL; WOOD;

SALIX; SALIX VIMINALIS;

EID: 50049085482     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2008.01.013     Document Type: Article

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