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Wood Chip Production Efficiency Depending on Chipper Type

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  • Jakub Stolarski

    (Department of Mechatronics, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Oczapowskiego 11, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland)

  • Sławomir Wierzbicki

    (Department of Mechatronics, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Oczapowskiego 11, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland)

  • Szymon Nitkiewicz

    (Department of Mechatronics, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Oczapowskiego 11, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland)

  • Mariusz Jerzy Stolarski

    (Department of Genetics, Plant Breeding and Bioresource Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Plac Łódzki 3, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland
    Centre for Bioeconomy and Renewable Energies, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Plac Łódzki 3, 10–719 Olsztyn, Poland)

Abstract

Solid biofuels, including wood chips, are still the most important feedstock in the structure of primary energy production from renewable energy sources. Wood chips are derived mainly from forests and the wood industry, including sawmills. However, the considerable diversity of chipper types results in great differences in their final production efficiency. The objective of this study was to analyze and evaluate the efficiency of three mobile chippers used in wood chip production by determining their throughput rate, diesel fuel and energy consumption, cost of chipping and greenhouse gas emission, as well as the quality of the chips. By far shortest time (0.82 min. Mg −1 ) of producing 1 Mg of wood chips was found for the Albach 565 kW chipper. Moreover, the mean time needed for the production of 1 Mg of chips with a chipper of the same make but with a smaller engine (Albach 515 kW) was 8.8% longer. This time was 284.9% longer than when the Bruks chipper was used. However, the highest mean effectiveness of diesel fuel use (expressed as the lowest diesel fuel consumption of 1.41 dm 3 Mg −1 ), the lowest energy consumption (52.02 MJ Mg −1 ), the lowest cost of diesel fuel use (2.28 € Mg −1 ) and the lowest GHG emission (4.27 kg Mg −1 CO 2eq ) in wood chip production were determined for the Albach 515 kW chipper. In contrast, the poorest parameters were determined for the Bruks chipper.

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  • Jakub Stolarski & Sławomir Wierzbicki & Szymon Nitkiewicz & Mariusz Jerzy Stolarski, 2023. "Wood Chip Production Efficiency Depending on Chipper Type," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(13), pages 1-15, June.
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