ENSURE THE BEST VALUE OF WOODY BIOMASS WITH THE NOVEL OPERATIONAL MODEL

摘要

According to The National Renewable Energy Action Plans biomass will represent important role inrnthe EU gross final energy consumption by 2020. This will dramatically increase the wood chip demand. Furthermore,rnwood chips will be used as raw material for transportation fuels and in some other higher value products in chemicalrnand medical industries. Therefore, there is a need to enhance wood energy supply chains processing technologies andrnpractices. In Finland the prominent wood energy supply chain is based on roadside chipping and direct wood chiprntransportation to the end-user. However, that practice has certain limitations in terms of operations and feasibility.rnAnd, what is the most important, it doesn’t consider the potential use of higher value products in woody biomass. Forrnthat reason, in 2015-2017 new operational and business models, technologies and practices, e.g. machine view basedrnseparation method for knot chips and novel terminal concept, will be developed, demonstrated and piloted inrnBIOPOOLI project. It bases on the experiment and pilots carried out jointly with local SMEs and other wood biomassrnsupply chain operators. The project will provide important information as well as experiences and operational modelsrnto European peer entities.