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in industrial applications. INTRODUCTIONThe continuous pulp digester has been predominantly utilized to convert the wood chips into pulp in industrial applications when it comes to the pulping process operation .1 ...
or staging area. Several skidder operators regularly staged trees 100–300 ft from the landing and moved the wood to the landing at a later time. The average time to move piles from the staging area ...
, and delays . An estimate of the percentage of the tree top cut off and left in the woods was made to estimate the corresponding percentage of weight of that top. These data were collected to estimate the weight ...
%. forest biomass, primary transport, biomass energy, chip van, balance Management and Policy Implications Biomass operations can become limited by the equipment used to obtain forest harvest residues. Steep ...
documented different modeling approaches to analyze the economics of biomass recovery operations at strategic and tactical level. Wu et al. (2010) estimated delivered cost of woody biomass for Central ...
to improving the competitiveness of biomass transport. Roundwood and wood chip transportation rate data were obtained from a single operator in the Lower Peninsula, and several rates were obtained for Upper ...
of the entire harvesting system by increasing operational delays in the combined felling, skidding, and delimbing operation . This research provides insight into how optimized system configurations may help cope ...
, and how wood is sold. We analyze timberland transactions and values and the new ownership to assess the impact of this change on forest resource management. While the new class of owners is thought ...
) of the stand at time t that is to be converted to lumber, wood chips (used in pulp mills or the manufacture of oriented-strandboard, medium-density fiberboard, etc.), or for production of energy and assume ...
, Morgantown, WV. 6 p. Spinelli R., Visser R. . 2008. Analyzing and estimating delays in harvester operations . Int. J. For. Eng . 19( 1): 36– 41. doi:10.1080/14942119.2008.10702558. Sprent P., Smeeton N.C ...
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