Forest biomass in Portugal

Evolução das áreas totais por espécie (ICNF, 2013, 13)

"A superfície florestal cuja espécie dominante é o eucalipto representa a maior área do país (812 mil ha; 26%), o sobreiro a segunda (737 mil ha; 23%), seguido do pinheiro‐bravo (714 mil ha; 23%). A área ocupada por espécies resinosas corresponde a 31% da floresta portuguesa, sendo a restante (69%) ocupada por espécies folhosas." (ICNF, 2013, 11)

Distribuição geográfica de instalações de energias endógenas + detalhe apenas para as centrais a biomassa (e2p, consultado a 31 de Maio de 2016)

Métodos digitais para inventariar a Biomassa. Image in Viana, Lopes e Aranha (2011)

Referencias:

Helder Viana, Domingos Lopes and José Aranha (2011). Assessment of Forest Aboveground Biomass Stocks and Dynamics with Inventory Data, Remotely Sensed Imagery and Geostatistics, Progress in Biomass and Bioenergy Production, Dr. Shahid Shaukat (Ed.), InTech, DOI: 10.5772/20025. 

ICNF (2013). IFN6 – Áreas dos usos do solo e das espécies florestais de Portugal continental em 1995, 2005 e 2010. Resultados preliminares. [pdf], 34 pp, Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas. Lisboa.

Legislação:

Decreto-Lei n.º 166/2015 - Diário da República n.º 163/2015, Série I de 2015-08-21

Segunda alteração ao Decreto-Lei n.º 5/2011, de 10 de janeiro, que estabelece as medidas destinadas a promover a produção e o aproveitamento de Biomassa Florestal

Decreto-Lei n.º 179/2012. D.R. n.º 150, Série I de 2012-08-03

Primeira alteração ao Decreto-Lei n.º 5/2011, de 10 de janeiro, que estabelece as medidas destinadas a promover a produção e o aproveitamento de biomassa de modo a assegurar o abastecimento das centrais dedicadas de Biomassa Florestal.

Decreto-Lei n.º 5/2011. D.R. n.º 6, Série I de 2011-01-10

Estabelece as medidas destinadas a promover a produção e o aproveitamento de Biomassa Florestal.

used coffee pellets

daily coffee habits turned from waste to pellets by Bio-Bean:

"(...) Bio-Bean has launched a UK-wide collection service and opened a waste coffee recycling factory. This factory turns the material into biomass pellets, used primarily for fueling large industrial boilers at places such as supermarkets, offices, homes, airports and factories at the moment. The company is now able to handle up to 10% of the country's grounds each year, or about 50,000 tonnes, which is said to be the equivalent amount of energy for fueling some 15,000 homes."

"It's a carbon-neutral fuel that not only happens to have a higher calorific value than wood, according to Kay, making it a great fuel option, but that is also cheaper than most of the alternatives. It also happens to be something that the suppliers, the coffee shops, need to get rid of as a course of doing business, so it's a win/win situation."

Forest Biomass Residues to Energy (PT)

Rafael Sandra, Tarelho Luis, Monteiro Alexandra, Monteiro Tânia, Gonçalves Catarina, Freitas Sylvio, and Lopes Myriam (2015). Atmospheric Emissions from Forest Biomass Residues to Energy Supply Chain: A Case Study in Portugal. Environmental Engineering Science, 32(6), 505 -515:

"(...) the use of biomass (FBR) to energy should be integrated within the framework of policies for the forest sector, through the territorial implementation of forest planning tools, namely the Regional Plans of Forestry Planning and Forest Management Plans, allowing the regional implementation of the national guidelines and the monitoring of sustainable forest management, as well as the coordination with other environmental policies that ensures the different services provided by forest ecosystems."

[biblio] forest biomass to energy

Biomass Conversion Technologies (2008)

Bioenergy conversion technologies, FAO

Viana, H.; Cohen, Warren B.; Lopes, D.; Aranha, J.Assessment of forest biomass for use as energy. GIS-based analysis of geographical availability and locations of wood-fired power plants in Portugal, Applied Energy, 87, 8, 2551-2560, 2010.

Stupak, I., Asikainen, A., Jonsell, M., Karltun, E., Lunnan, A., Mizaraite, D., ... Tamminen, P. (2007). Sustainable utilisation of forest biomass for energy - Possibilities and problems: Policy, legislation, certification, and recommendations and guidelines in the Nordic, Baltic, and other European countries. Biomass & Bioenergy, 31(10), 666-684. 10.1016/j.biombioe.2007.06.012

Schulze, E.-D., Körner, C., Law, B. E., Haberl, H. and Luyssaert, S. (2012), Large-scale bioenergy from additional harvest of forest biomass is neither sustainable nor greenhouse gas neutral. Glob. Change Biol. Bioenergy, 4: 611–616. doi:10.1111/j.1757-1707.2012.01169.x

Guidelines for harvesting forest biomass for energy: A synthesis of environmental considerations (2011)

Waste biomass-to-energy supply chain management: A critical synthesis (2010)

A supply chain analysis framework for assessing state-level forest biomass utilization policies in the United States (2011)

Potential of biomass residues for energy production and utilization in a region of Portugal (2010)

Supply assessment of forest biomass – A bottom-up approach for Sweden (2015)

Climate effects of bioenergy from forest residues in comparison to fossil energy (2015)

Assessment of biomass energy sources and technologies: The case of Central America (2016)

Best scenarios for the forest end energy sector–implications for the biomass market (2015) 

Rafael Sandra, Tarelho Luis, Monteiro Alexandra, Monteiro Tânia, Gonçalves Catarina, Freitas Sylvio, and Lopes Myriam (2015). Atmospheric Emissions from Forest Biomass Residues to Energy Supply Chain: A Case Study in Portugal. Environmental Engineering Science. May 2015, 32(6): 505-515. doi:10.1089/ees.2014.0420.

Current and potential use of forest biomass forenergy in Tasmania (2015)

Supply chain optimization of residual forestry biomass for bioenergy production: The case study of Portugal (2015)

Review of micro- and small-scale technologies to produce electricity and heat from Mediterranean forests׳ wood chips (2015)

backyard-sized biogas machine

"(...) backyard-sized biogas machine that turns organic kitchen waste, garden waste, and pet droppings into pressurized renewable gas, which can be hooked up to a gas barbeque or burned indoors for heat. (...) Instead of having waste shipped to a central location, the idea is to extract and use energy from organics at the source. (...) capable of generating enough gas to cook three meals daily, assuming ideal conditions where all household organics and pet waste are put into the system." +info

Investir mais em biomassa

"Segundo o Secretário-geral do COPA-COGECA a biomassa proveniente da floresta e da agricultura tem um potencial que ainda não está explorado. Deve-se, assim, encontrar soluções para um melhor uso dos recursos existentes, envolvendo mais os agricultores e produtores florestais, aconselhando-os e promovendo a transferência de conhecimentos e da inovação, investindo nas novas tecnologias, desenvolvendo novos modelos económicos."