IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/renene/v9y1996i1p1033-1036.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Biomass transportation

Author

Listed:
  • Börjesson, Pål
  • Gustavsson, Leif

Abstract

Extensive utilisation of logging residues, straw, and energy crops will lead to short transportation distances and thus low transportation costs. The average distance of transportation of biomass to a large-scale conversion plant, suitable for electricity or methanol production using 300 000 dry tonne biomass yearly, will be about 30 km in Sweden, if the conversion plant is located at the centre of the biomass production area. The estimated Swedish biomass potential of 430 PJ/yr is based on production conditions around 2015, assuming that 30% of the available arable land is used for energy crop production. With present production conditions, resulting in a biomass potential of 220 PJ/yr, the transportation distance is about 42 km. The cost of transporting biomass 30–42 km will be equivalent to 20–25% of the total biomass cost. The total energy efficiency of biomass production and transportation will be 95–97%, where the energy losses from transportation are about 20%. Biomass transportation will contribute less than 10% to the total NOx, CO, and HC emissions from biomass production, transportation, and conversion.

Suggested Citation

  • Börjesson, Pål & Gustavsson, Leif, 1996. "Biomass transportation," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 9(1), pages 1033-1036.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:9:y:1996:i:1:p:1033-1036
    DOI: 10.1016/0960-1481(96)88456-4
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0960148196884564
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/0960-1481(96)88456-4?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Gustavsson, Leif & Börjesson, Pål, 1996. "Biomass utilisation and transportation demands," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 9(1), pages 1037-1040.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Gustavsson, Leif & Börjesson, Pål, 1996. "Biomass utilisation and transportation demands," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 9(1), pages 1037-1040.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.

      Corrections

      All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:9:y:1996:i:1:p:1033-1036. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

      If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

      If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

      If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

      For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/renewable-energy .

      Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

      IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.