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Saleh, Dalia El Sayed Abbas Mohamed.

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Harvesting forest biomass for energy in Minnesota: An assessment of guidelines, costs and logistics.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Harvesting forest biomass for energy in Minnesota: An assessment of guidelines, costs and logistics./
Author:	Saleh, Dalia El Sayed Abbas Mohamed.
Description:	114 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Kenneth N. Brooks; Dean A. Current.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-07B.
Subject:	Agriculture, Forestry and Wildlife. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3269022
ISBN:	9780549093695

Harvesting forest biomass for energy in Minnesota: An assessment of guidelines, costs and logistics.
Saleh, Dalia El Sayed Abbas Mohamed.

Harvesting forest biomass for energy in Minnesota: An assessment of guidelines, costs and logistics. - 114 p.

Advisers: Kenneth N. Brooks; Dean A. Current.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2007.

The emerging market for renewable energy in Minnesota has generated a growing interest in utilizing more forest biomass for energy. However, this growing interest is paralleled with limited knowledge of the environmental impacts and cost effectiveness of utilizing this resource. To address environmental and economic viability concerns, this dissertation has addressed three areas related to biomass harvest: First, existing biomass harvesting guidelines and sustainability considerations are examined. Second, the potential contribution of biomass energy production to reduce the costs of hazardous fuel reduction treatments in these trials is assessed. Third, the logistics of biomass production trials are analyzed. Findings show that: (1) Existing forest related guidelines are not sufficient to allow large-scale production of biomass energy from forest residue sustainably. Biomass energy guidelines need to be based on scientific assessments of how repeated and large scale biomass production is going to affect soil, water and habitat values, in an integrated and individual manner over time. Furthermore, such guidelines would need to recommend production logistics (planning, implementation, and coordination of operations) necessary for a potential supply with the least site and environmental impacts. (2) The costs of biomass production trials were assessed and compared with conventional treatment costs. In these trials, conventional mechanical treatment costs were lower than biomass energy production costs less income from biomass sale. However, a sensitivity analysis indicated that costs reductions are possible under certain site, prescriptions and distance conditions. (3) Semi-structured interviews with forest machine operators indicate that existing fuel reduction prescriptions need to be more realistic in making recommendations that can overcome operational barriers (technical and physical) and planning and coordination concerns (guidelines and communications) identified by machine operators, and which are necessary for a viable biomass energy production system. The results of this dissertation suggest that once biomass energy production is intended, incorporating an early understanding of production logistics while developing environmentally sensitive guidelines and site-specific prescriptions can improve biomass energy production, costs, performance and sustainability.

ISBN: 9780549093695Subjects--Topical Terms:

783690
Agriculture, Forestry and Wildlife.

Harvesting forest biomass for energy in Minnesota: An assessment of guidelines, costs and logistics.
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