Logistical, economic, environmental and regulatory conditions for future wood pellet transportation by sea to Europe: The case of Northwest Russian seaports

Proskurina, Svetlana; Rimppi, Helli; Heinimö, Jussi; Hansson, Julia; Orlov, Anton; Kc, Raghu; Vakkilainen, Esa

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2015.11.030

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“…Might be optimistic scenarios seem very ambitios. However, if to glance the large progress of wood pellet trade during the last 5-10 years [16,17,77,78] the torrefied pellets can show the same progress due to attractiveness of torrefied biomass use in power industry and non-power such as iron and steel and non-metallic minerals industries as well as logistic.…”

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Biomass for industrial applications: The role of torrefaction

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Torrefied biomass has considerable potential as a biomass fuel to replace coal in energy and process heat production. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the potential of torrefied biomass in different industries, both power and non-power generation industries, and considers the impact of such use on the international biomass market. The power generation sector has been so far the leader in testing torrefied biomass use with other industrial demand lagging behind. There are promising technical possibilities for greater torrefied biomass use in a number of other areas such as the steel, non-metallic minerals, as well as the pulp and paper industries. Although a large increase in torrefied biomass consumption by industry is not immediately foreseeable, industrial use by actors outside the energy generation sector could increase demand for torrefied biomass in general and, as a result, stimulate development of global torrefied biomass markets. Results show that the torrefied biomass demand significantly depends on the bioenergy markets. It seems that despite of the challenges, the growth of torrefied biomass demand will have a large progress in coming years.

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“…The transition to the local renewable energy sources in these areas will increase the local market for pellets and support the local bioenergy industry since the opportunities to increase export of pellets from Russia are currently limited. Proskurina and coauthors analyzed the pellet-export potential of the Northwestern FD [16]. This FD has the highest level of the pellet production; it is close to seaports and major export markets (Denmark and Sweden).…”

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Study of feasibility of local renewable resources for substitution of fossil fuels in the Far North of Russia

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Konovalov

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2018

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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“…Sustainable biomass logistics and trade within EU [25] and with nearby regions, such as Northwest Russia [104][105][106] is important issues. An example of joint efforts in the private sector is the sustainable biomass partnership, in which different…”

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Five years left – How are the EU member states contributing to the 20% target for EU's renewable energy consumption; the role of woody biomass

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Sikkema

Heinimö

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Biomass and Bioenergy

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The European Union has set ambitious targets of raising the share of EU energy consumption produced from renewable resources from 20% by 2020 to 27% by 2030. The aim of this paper is to assess the role of woody biomass in renewable energy as gross final energy consumption in the European Union (the EU-28). The paper identifies leading and lagging countries in biomass development by focusing on their current biomass use and forecasts future perspectives. The research compares and evaluates the role of biomass in renewable energy in the EU-28 focusing on countries' potential resources and policy support. The study shows that all countries are making efforts to reach the 20% target in 2020 and exhibit a trend of increasing renewable energy as gross final energy consumption towards the new target of 2030. Solid biomass plays an important role in reaching the EU's renewable energy targets. The majority of the EU-28 countries are close to reaching their national renewable energy targets and show a very attractive biomass development. Unless energy consumption decreases however, some member states will face serious problems in reaching their renewable energy target in 2020. Following our analysis, the largest problems occur in those MS having a relative highenergy consumption pattern: France, Germany and the United Kingdom. It is unlikely that they can comply with expected renewable energy demand, unless they mobilize more woody biomass from their available domestic potential (France, Germany) or considerably increase their woody biomass imports (mostly wood pellets) from elsewhere (United Kingdom). Keywords Definitions Bioenergy: Bioenergy refers to energy derived from biofuels. Biomass: Refers to the biodegradable fraction of products, waste and residues from agricultural (including vegetal and animal substances), forestry and related industries, as well as the biodegradable fraction of industrial and municipal waste.  Bioliquids. Refers to the liquid fuels made from biomass for energy purposes other than transport (i.e.heating and electricity). Gross inland consumption of energy (GIC) is the first aggregate in the national energy balances. It refers to "apparent" consumption and is derived from the formula that takes into account primary production, exports, imports and stock changes. It includes the primary energy from fossil fuels, from renewable energies (biomass, wind, solar, hydro), derived heat and trade of electrical energy. Gross final energy consumption (GFEC) is calculated from national energy balances. GFEC starts with the GIC data, after which transformation losses, distribution losses and own consumption of electricity and heat within the energy sector are subtracted. The GFEC data can be divided over the sectors involved in the energy consumption, after the subtraction of non-energy consumption (e.g. use of cokes for chemical products). At the end, we remain with final energy consumption by industry, transport and households [3].4

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Logistical, economic, environmental and regulatory conditions for future wood pellet transportation by sea to Europe: The case of Northwest Russian seaports

Cited by 28 publications

References 39 publications

Biomass for industrial applications: The role of torrefaction

Biomass for industrial applications: The role of torrefaction

Study of feasibility of local renewable resources for substitution of fossil fuels in the Far North of Russia

Five years left – How are the EU member states contributing to the 20% target for EU's renewable energy consumption; the role of woody biomass

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