Title:
Spatial Assessment of Forest-Fuel Supply to a CHP Plant with a Spreadsheet-GIS Tool
Author(s):
Korpinen, O.-J., Jäppinen, E., Ranta, T.
Document(s):
Paper
Poster
Abstract:
The aim of this work was to develop a user-friendly analysis tool for estimating supply costs of spatially fragmented biofuel sources such as forest fuels. The analysis tool is based on Microsoft Excel software, and it uses tabular data about biomass resources and transportation network as fixed inputs and demand for different fuel types, logistics costs and estimates of user-defined parameters as user-defined parameters. The outputs are cost summary from supply of each fuel type and supply-area maps that are changed interactively when changing calculation parameters. The tool is most useful when a power plants wants to analyze the economic impacts of altering fuel markets on feedstock costs in the surrounding region of the plant.
Keywords:
combined heat and power generation (CHP), decision making, forest residues, geographical information system (GIS), market forecasts
Topic:
Industry Sessions
Subtopic:
Biomass Resources (Crops,SRF, Algae and Organic Waste)
Event:
23rd European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
Session:
ICV.4.62
Pages:
1826 - 1828
ISBN:
978-88-89407-516
Paper DOI:
10.5071/23rdEUBCE2015-ICV.4.62
Price:
FREE
