NCSAF Monthly Program

Forest Treatment Residues for Thermal Energy: Emissions, Energy Returns, and Fossil Fuel Offsets

Speaker:  Greg Jones, Research Forester, Rocky Mtn. Res. Station Missoula, MT

Date:  Wednesday, October 21, 2009 Time:  9:30 – 10:30 am

Forest Service (Sidney R. Yates Building), Chief’s Conference Room

Abstract:  Presents results of GIS-based analysis comparing disposal of forest treatment residues by onsite pile burning with collecting, grinding, and hauling residues to a biomass boiler to produce thermal energy.

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