Reducing costs in the wood supply chain through controlling the moisture content of logs and chips: Preliminary modelling results for air-drying Eucalyptus globulus and Pinus radiata log piles

Martin Strandgard; Richard Mitchell

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Reducing costs in the wood supply chain through controlling the moisture content of logs and chips: Preliminary modelling results for air-drying Eucalyptus globulus and Pinus radiata log piles

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Reducing costs in the wood supply chain through controlling the moisture content of logs and chips: Preliminary modelling results for air-drying Eucalyptus globulus and Pinus radiata log piles

Martin Strandgard and Richard Mitchell

pp.1-31

Forest & Wood Products Australia

2017

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Forestry Sciences

Transportation and Freight Services

log piles

drying logs

air drying

drying biomass

reducing costs

chips

supply chain

moisture content

transportation costs

logs

Pinus radiata

Eucalyptus globulus

Final report prepared for Forest & Wood Products Australia. Wood is ~50% water when harvested. Therefore, drying logs and biomass infield has the potential to produce considerable savings in transport costs for the Australian forest industry. Drying biomass produces additional gains from the increased energy content. There are a number of steps required to move from the current system of transporting green logs to a system where the moisture content of logs and biomass is managed to balance the benefits of infield drying against potential costs from degradation and increased storage duration. This project aimed to address the first step in this process through investigating the rates of airdrying of logs under Australian conditions and using the results to develop models to predict the moisture content of Pinus radiata and Eucalyptus globulus log piles stored at roadside. The models can be incorporated into other systems or used through a Smartphone app predictive tool developed as part of the project.

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Title: Reducing costs in the wood supply chain through controlling the moisture content of logs and chips: Preliminary modelling results for air-drying Eucalyptus globulus and Pinus radiata log piles
Authors: Martin Strandgard (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Richard Mitchell (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Publication details: pp.1-31
Publisher: Forest & Wood Products Australia
Date published: 2017
ISBN: 9781925213621
Organisation Unit: Forest Industries Research Centre; Forest Research Institute
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99451056902621
Output Type: Report
Research Statement: true

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