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http://cimav.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1004/1393| TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY OF FOREST RESIDUES RECOVERY BY PELLETIZATION, IN THE WESTERN “SIERRA MADRE” IN MÉXICO | |
| MONICA MORENO LOPEZ IGNACIO RAMIRO MARTIN DOMINGUEZ MARIA TERESA ALARCON HERRERA | |
| Acceso Abierto | |
| Sin Derechos Reservados | |
| FOREST RESIDUES | |
| Mexican forest resources are concentrated along two large ridges (eastern and western Sierra Madre) (fig 1) that supply most of the timber products consumed in the country. Mexican forest industries create significant quantities of waste in the form of sawdust, bark, cuts and foliage, which in most cases ends up as garbage in the vicinity of the sawmills (fig 2). This waste creates a serious environmental pollution and fire hazard problem. One possible solution to the described problem is to transform the forest waste into a biofuel, this work presents an estimation of the wood pellets generation potential, based on the forest wastes produced in the sawmills. Unlike other developed countries in the northern hemisphere, currently in Mexico there are not pellet industries established yet. The feasibility of implementing pellet manufacturing and consumption in Mexico will depend upon several factors ranging from the availability of raw materials to quality and logistics. To quantify the volume of generated waste, a field study was performed in Madera City, Chihuahua, where the major sawmills in the region where surveyed. To carry out the characterization of the wood-waste, a manual pelletizer prototype was built. The produced pellets were found to comply with the requirements of DIN Plus Standard for high quality pellets. Thus, an economic analysis is developed to evaluate the feasibility of commissioning a pelletizing plant in the Madera City region, which is representative of similar cities in the Sierra Madre. Five different commercially available pelletizing machines were analyzed. Included parameters were pellets selling price, existing waste availability, machine production capacities and costs, power requirements, operating expenses (salaries, maintenance and electricity costs), and machine recovery price. | |
| 2013 | |
| Póster de congreso | |
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| OTRAS | |
| Versión revisada | |
| submittedVersion - Versión revisada | |
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