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Energy consumption trends in forest industry
After reading this article you will..
- understand what the main fuels in forest industry are.
- understand how much energy does forest industry use.
Energy and biofuels
- Introduction to Energy and biofuels
- Global forest industry energy use
- Production processes recovery and energy
- Chemical recovery
- Energy consumption trends in forest industry
- Challenges in comparing mill energy consumption
- Heat and electricity demand in chemical pulping
- Trends in heat and electricity demand in chemical pulping
- Heat and electricity demand in integrated pulp and paper mill
- Heat and electricity demand in mechanical wood processing
- Three different ways to consume and produce energy
- Defining the energy consumption in modern processes
- Energy supply in forest industry
- Energy production with options for increased power production
- Novel solutions in the pulp mill energy supply
- Improvement of energy efficiency
Authors & references
Authors:
Professor Esa Vakkilainen, LUT University
Katja Kuparinen, LUT University
References:
- IEA, International Energy Agency. (2010). Energy Technology Perspectives. Scenarios and strategies to 2050. Paris. [Online] Available from: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/etp2010.pdf [Accessed 25th October 2019].
- Statistics Finland. (2017). Energy 2016 table. [Online] Available from: http://www.stat.fi/til/ehk/2016/ehk_2016_2017-12-08_tie_001_fi.html. [Accessed 25th October 2019].
- Finnish Forest Industry. (2019). Forest industry fuels in Finland 1990-2017. [Online] Available from: https://www.forestindustries.fi/statistics/energy-and-logistics/ [Accessed 25th October 2019].
- Fracaro, G. et al. (2012). Energy efficiency in the Brazilian pulp and paper industry. Energies. 5(9) 3550–3572.
- Wadsborn, R. et al. (2007). Konvertering av mesaugnar från olje- till biobränsleeldning – drifterfarenheter och modellering (Conversion of lime kilns from oil firing to biofuel firing: Operating experience and modelling). (In Swedish). Report No. 1040. Värmeforsk Sverige AB, Stockholm, Sweden.
- de Coninck, H. et al. (eds) (2018). Global warming of 1.5°C. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). [Online] Available from: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/4-0/ [Accessed 25th October 2019].
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