Natural drying treatments during seasonal storage of wood for bioenergy in different European locations

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4238-4247

  Röser, Dominik ^a   Mola Yudego, Blas ^a   Sikanen, Lauri ^a   Prinz, Robert ^a   Gritten, David ^a   Emer, Beatrice ^b   Väätäinen, Kari ^a   Erkkilä, Ari ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Fuel supply; Moisture content; Roundwood; Wood storage; Wood fuel logistics

Indexed keywords

BIO-ENERGY; BROADLEAVED TREES; DRYING PROCESS; ENERGY PURPOSE; ENERGY SECTOR; FINLAND; FUEL PRODUCTS; FUEL SUPPLY; HIGH QUALITY; MAINTENANCE COST; MOISTURE CONTENTS; NATURAL DRYING; QUALITY PARAMETERS; ROUNDWOODS; SCOTLAND; SEASONAL STORAGE; TREE SPECIES; WOOD CHIP; WOOD STORAGE; WOODY MATERIALS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FUEL STORAGE; MAINTENANCE; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PILES; PLANT EXTRACTS; WOOD FUELS; WOOD PRODUCTS;

DRYING;

BIOENERGY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FUEL; HEATING; MOISTURE CONTENT; RESEARCH WORK; SEASONAL VARIATION; WOOD QUALITY;

CHIPS; EXTRACTIVES; FINLAND; FUELS; LOGS; MAINTENANCE; MOISTURE CONTENT; PLANTS; SCOTLAND; STORAGE; WOOD; WOOD PRODUCTS;

EUROPE;

EID: 80053586672     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2011.07.011     Document Type: Article

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