Technical and environmental issues of stump harvesting for biofuel production in Latvia

Lazdins, A., Latvian State Forestry Research Inst. Silava, Salaspils; Hofsten, H. von, Skogforsk - The Forest Research Institute of Sweden, Uppsala

Technical and environmental issues of stump harvesting for biofuel production in Latvia

2009

Lazdins, A., Latvian State Forestry Research Inst. Silava, Salaspils (Latvia) | Hofsten, H. von, Skogforsk - The Forest Research Institute of Sweden, Uppsala (Sweden)

This article represents the results of the research project 'Forest energy from small-dimension stands, infra-structure objects and stumps' realized in cooperation between Joint stock company Latvijas valsts meži (Latvia's state forests), SKOGFORSK (The Forestry Research Institute of Sweden) and Latvian State Forestry Research Institute Silava. The article is covering issues related to the results of stump harvesting field study realized in November, 2008. A scope of the study was to estimate costs of stump harvesting and to evaluate working methods and influencing factors related to extraction of stumps. Better harvesting conditions (flat landscape and lack of stones in soil) led to increased productivity of stump extraction in Latvian trials (5.2 tdry (tdry - tons of dry mass) of stumps per effective hour (E0-h)) in comparison to average figures in Scandinavian studies. Load sizes of the forwarder ranged from 5.5 to 9.3 t which is about half of the maximum load of forwarder. Average productivity of forwarding was 6.3 tdry E0-hE-1. Productivity of stump transport (distance - 7 km) was 3.5 tdry E0-hE-1. Productivity of comminution was 10 tdry E0-hE-1. Prime cost of the stump harvesting, including extraction, forwarding, stump transport (7 km one direction), comminution and chip transport (50 km one direction) was 6.3 LVL LVmE-3 (LV - loose volume). 'Environmental footprint' of the stump harvesting in terms of carbon (C) emissions was 2.5 kg C LVmE-3 of wood chips at terminal. Stumps demonstrated considerably higher heat value (5.7 MWh tdryE-1 against 4.7 MWh tdryE-1 for the hog fuel from a slash).

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Bibliographic information

Published in

Research for Rural Development. International Scientific Conference Proceedings (Latvia)

Issue 15/2009 ISSN 1691-4031

Publisher

LLU

Pagination

p. 155-162

Other Subjects

Production forestiere; Cout; Produccion forestal; Investigacion; Suede; Productivite; Recolte; Tocon

Language

English

Note

Summary (En)

Creator variant: Lazdiņš, A.

8 tables, 2 fig., 11 ref.

Type

Conference; Summary

Source

Research for Rural Development 2009. Annual 15th International Scientific Conference Proceedings, Gaile, Z..- Jelgava (Latvia): LLU, 2009. International Scientific Conference: Research for Rural Development 2009, 15, Jelgava (Latvia), 20-22 May 2009.- p. 155-162

Conference

International Scientific Conference: Research for Rural Development 2009, 15, Jelgava (Latvia), 20-22 May 2009

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