Paper details

Title:

Developing of a Self-propelled Prototype for Biomass Harvesting

Author(s):

Pari, L., Civitarese, V.

Document(s):

Abstract:

The Agricultural Engineering Research Unit of the Agricultural Research Council (Rome), in collaboration with the Spapperi firm of Città di Castello (PG), has developed an innovative self­propelled multi­purpose prototype for biomass harvesting. The machine can operate on both standing and windrowed trees, harvested at 2, 3, 4 ,or 5 years intervals, and chipping trees with diameters up to 380 mm. The machine can be also equipped with an hydraulic arm fitted with pliers and an harvester head pick up, thus to allow its use both as chipper fixed at the storage centre, and for river bed maintenance. The self­propelled prototype represents an alternative solution to foreign manufacturing forager, nowadays deployed, since it has a working width that allows to harvest trees windrowed in plantations having a rows­spacing of 3 m. Furthermore, the new machine can chip different types of biomass for many months a year and under different operating conditions.

Keywords:

harvesting, short rotation forestry (SRF), middle rotation forestry (MRF), self-propelled machine

Topic:

Biomass resources

Subtopic:

Research on energy crops (session 1)

Event:

18th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition

Session:

OD7.1

Pages:

220 - 223

ISBN-13:

978-88-89407-56-1

ISBN-10:

88-89407-56-5

Paper DOI:

10.5071/18thEUBCE2010-OD7.1

Price:

FREE