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Publication: Sustainability impacts of increased forest biomass feedstock supply
Sustainably managed forests provide renewable raw material that can be used for primary/secondary conversion products and as biomass for energy generation.
Tuomasjukka et al from EFI evaluated the economic, environmental and social sustainability impacts of making the potentially available timber available with current and technologically improved value chains.
Their publication ‘Sustainability impacts of increased forest biomass feedstock supply – a comparative assessment of technological solutions’ in the International Journal of Forest Engineering is now available open access:
Read the abstract or download the full text!
T4E Bucking App ready for download
Two years of development and a lot of testing by Latschbacher and the Institute of Forest Engineering of BOKU led to this mobile device based application for value-optimized motor-manual bucking. Get our T4E Bucking App now for free from GooglePlay Store!
More information in our Results section!
http://www.tech4effect.eu/results/bucking-app/
Field test: Controlling of cable yarding operations
BOKU and Konrad are working on enabling advanced operation progress monitoring and performance evaluation through pooling sensor information on cable yarders.
The first field test has taken place during a downhill yarding operation with a Konrad Mounty 4000 yarder to test the system under real-life conditions, contributing to work package 3 – harvesting.
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Publication: Spatial distribution of the potential forest biomass availability in Europe
European forests are considered a crucial resource for supplying biomass to a growing bio-economy in Europe. This study aimed to assess the potential availability of forest biomass from European forests and its spatial distribution. We tried to answer the questions (i) how is the potential forest biomass availability spatially distributed across Europe and (ii) where are hotspots of potential forest biomass availability located?
Verkerk from EFI et. al analysed the total availability of forest biomass and spatial distribution of woody biomass potential for 39 European countries. They found out that the distribution of biomass potentials that are currently unused only partially coincides with regions that currently have high levels of wood production.
Read the abstract or download the full pdf!
Data is also available on Zenodo.
Figure 1: Comparison of the BASE, TECH, HIGH and BIOD forest biomass potentials in 39 European countries
Field trip: Ponsse machines in action!
Publication: Decreasing Fuel Consumption of Excavator-Based Harvesters with Machine Control System
Compared with purpose-built units, excavator-based harvesters offer many advantages, but they consume more fuel. Fuel efficiency can be increased by a better interface between the excavator and the harvester head.
Spinelli et al from CNR just published testing results of a new adaptation kit in Forests 2019 (10(1), 43; https://doi.org/10.3390/f10010043). The kit is specifically designed to improve the communication between these two components. After installing the adaptation kit, productivity increased 6%, while fuel consumption per hour decreased 3.5%. Fuel consumption and CO2 emissions per product unit decreased 10%, as an average.
Read the abstract or download the full pdf!
Figure 1: One of the excavator-based harvesters at work (left); the adaptation kit (right).