Slobodiannykova I., Tepla T., Halchenko Z., Kabakova L., Buriak S. Methodology for estimating the volume of wood for pellets production when growing poplar by short rotation forestry on the land plots of coal enterprises
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- Parent Category: Geo-Technical Mechanics, 2024
- Category: Geo-Technical Mechanics, 2024, Issue 171
Geoteh. meh. 2024, 171, 15-30
https://doi.org/ 10.15407/geotm2024.171.015
METHODOLOGY FOR ESTIMATING THE VOLUME OF WOOD FOR PELLETS PRODUCTION WHEN GROWING POPLAR BY SHORT ROTATION FORESTRY ON THE LAND PLOTS OF COAL ENTERPRISES
1M.S. Poliakov Institute of Geotechnical Mechanics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
2Dnipro University of Technology
UDC [620.9:622.012.2:371.61].001.24
Language: English
Abstract. The main topic of the study is the prospects of using the area of industrial sites of mining enterprises, together with the area of the corresponding protection and exclusion zones, as energy plantations with a short rotation of felling (Short Rotation Forestry) or with a short rotation of pruning (Short Rotation Coppice). The purpose of the study is to develop a methodology for determining the conditional yield of wood from energy plantations in the conditions of coal enterprises. The study uses a statistical analysis of the results of growing seedlings and cuttings of nineteen poplar varieties in the first years of life, which were published in the open scientific literature. We established the dynamics of changes in the diameters and trunk heights of the poplar seedlings under consideration in time that is characteristic of Short Rotation Forestry and Short Rotation Coppice technologies and is not taken into account when taxing forest stands in conventional non-energy forestry. The results of statistical processing and analysis showed that there are two modes, 21 and 44 cm, in the height distribution of one-year-old poplar seedlings, while the height distribution of two-year-old seedlings has only one mode, 150 cm. For distribution of poplar seedlings growth in the second year, one mode of 107 cm is observed. It was found that the dynamics of relative values of heights and diameters of trunks of 4-year-old poplar seedlings, as well as the relative volume of the trunk of these seedlings, during the first three years is described by an exponential function with a positive exponent. The uniformity of the formulas for the relative values of trunk heights and diameters allowed us to establish a power law relationship between these two parameters. The dependencies for calculating the possible wood yield for a land plot when used as an energy plantation were obtained, taking into account the geometric dimensions of the plot, the peculiarities of seedling placement and their number, the volume of the seedling trunk at the time of planting, the survival rate of trees and the term of felling. The exponential dependence of the conditional wood yield on the years after planting justifies the prospects of using forestry technologies with a short felling rotation, the so-called Short Rotation Forestry and Short Rotation Coppice, as this allows to obtain 104% more pellets in the second year than in the first, and 316% more in the third year.
Keywords: coal enterprises, pellets, Short Rotation Forestry, wood yield, plantation density.
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About the authors:
Slobodiannykova Inna, Candidate of Technical Sciences (Ph.D), Senior Researcher in Department of Mine Energy Complexes, M.S. Poliakov Institute of Geotechnical Mechanics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (IGTM of the NAS of Ukraine), Dnipro, Ukraine, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Corresponding author)
Tepla Tatiana, Junior Research Assistant in Department of Mine Energy Complexes, M.S. Poliakov Institute of Geotechnical Mechanics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (IGTM of the NAS of Ukraine), Dnipro, Ukraine,
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Halchenko Zariana, graduate student, M.S. Poliakov Institute of Geotechnical Mechanics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (IGTM of the NAS of Ukraine), Dnipro, Ukraine, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Kabakova liudmyla, Candidate of Technical Sciences (Ph.D), Senior Researcher in Department of Vibratory Transporting Systems and Complexes, M.S. Poliakov Institute of Geotechnical Mechanics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (IGTM of the NAS of Ukraine), Dnipro, Ukraine, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Buriak Serhii, Graduate Student, Dnipro University of Technology, Dnipro, Ukraine, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
