Make the most of the mountain biomass
La technification of forestry work is key to be efficient in the biomass energy sector, a relatively new sector that grows steadily. The demand for wood in Europe will grow in the next decades by 40%, and Spain has a long way to go.
The consumption of biomass to generate heat in an automated way has multiplied by 5 in the last 10 years. Only the manufacture of pellets in Spain already requires more than three million cubic meters of pine wood in Spain.
After the commissioning of 200MWe in recent years, the use of biomass for electricity generation is expected to make a significant jump with the commissioning of another 380MW in the coming years. The government plans foresee multiply by three the current installed power, something that would be key to profitable forest exploitation.
The John Deere woodcutter model 643 that serves to cut and accumulate trees in such a way that later it is easier and more efficient to transport it by autoloader or trawler.
The Finnish forest machinery manufacturer Logset Oy, represented at Expobiomasa by FOREST PIONNER, has launched a new hybrid forestry processor: the Logset 8H GTE Hybrid. It is the company's second and smallest hybrid model after the world's largest wheeled forestry harvester, the Logset 12H GTE Hybrid. The new model has an AGCO Power 74 LFTN diesel engine that meets EU Class 5 emission regulations and an electric motor that provides up to 100 kW of additional power.
From Canal Extremadura they have made a report in which they show us the process of cracking quality slivers to be used as biofuel. Watch video
ASTIGAL, of the FORESGA group, manages a Center for Biomass Treatment specialized in the production of quality chips for its energy use in heat production, in Trasmiras (Orense). They have screens, a re-chipping process and warehouses to supply G-50 and G-30 chips.
Open until the 27 of May to request aid in Galicia for the acquisition of forestry machinery: processors, forwarders, chippers, balers, wood splitters, ... The maximum subsidized on this occasion is 150.000 €, which is the 40% on a maximum investment of 375.000 €.
The Forestry Action Plan presented this month by MAPAMA includes a good part of the demands of the sector to value a natural and economic heritage that few countries can boast of. Claimed by the Juntos por los Bosques Platform, to which AVEBIOM belongs, it also collects the concerns of environmental associations and Autonomous Communities. This will include a Renove Plan to improve the competitiveness of the entities in charge of forest management and will be endowed with 2 million euros.
7.463 tons of biomass will be extracted, improving the health of these wooded areas and reducing the risks and impacts of possible fires of the public forests "Umbria of Sierra Espuña" and "Sierra de Pedro Ponce", located in the municipality of Mula, as part of the Forestry Plan of the Region of Murcia where the Community develops fire prevention works using biomass.
Many scientific experts have studied the global carbon cycle in the last thirty years or more, and have reached a high level of consensus: using low-value forest products for bioenergy will not create any "carbon deficits" and will enhance stocks of forest carbon. Bioenergetic resources
The Galicia Forestais Fire Workers Association assures that the Xunta must change its strategy to face a new typology of large forest fires, which collapse the extinguishing and emergency systems, giving priority and implementing preventive measures that reduce risks for the civilian population and minimize the losses caused by fires, fighting them with an effective forest management and creating a greater resistance of the forest to the severity of the fires.
The town of Camp de Túria shows in Brussels the virtues of its sustainable forest management plan. Once consolidated in the municipality, Serra City Council has taken its sustainable forest management project through biomass to the European Parliament. Its mayor, Alicia Tusón, went to Brussels before the highest European authorities to show in person the virtues of this project that Serra started six years ago and that aims to become an example for other localities that want to improve their forest and energy management.
Europa-Parts, distributors of the Willibald brand, has also specialized in the second-hand market, selling three equipment each month, and in the replacement of the main brands in the sector, such as: Doppstadt, Hammel, Haas, Forus, Vermer and Jenz. Also in the after-sales service, which supports more than 250 machines, solving any problem or need arising to its customers. Crusher EP 5500 Series
Free Technical Conference "Technologies for clearing and harvesting scrub for energy purposes. Results and applications" The technical conference will present the results of the more than 600 hours of simultaneous clearing and harvesting of scrub, carried out during development of the Life + ENERBIOSCRUB project, with two innovative teams that clear it and harvest it in two different ways.