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We have slected for you the current documents of wood-energy DOCUMENTS Wood-energy: lasting heat for the home and service industries Document aimed at the general public and managers of public and private heating plants which use wood for energy purposes employing the most modern technology.

The index is as follows: • A widely available resource • Attention paid to supplying and the quality of the woodfuel • How to conceive a wood-energy heating project • Optimisation of project costs • Positive spin-offs for the environment and social condition • Support for the development of the Wood-Energy sector Contact: www.bioheat.info

11/2002. 58 p.

The aim of the publication is to define a method making it possible to establish the quantity of absorbed carbon both in forests and wood products in Italy.

Contact: APAT, Via Vitaliano Brancati 48, 00144 Rome Italy - www.apat.it

Towards a Non-Carbon Fuel Economy: Research, Development and Demonstration.

Report of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee - Fourth Report of Session 2002-03 Volume I. www.nf-2000.org/publications/publications.html

Efficient technology for competitive production of forest chips: The Finnish Wood Energy Technology Programme 1999–2003. Tekes. August 2003. 4 p.

Contact: The National Technology Agency, TEKES, P.O. Box 69 (Kyllikinportti 2), 00101 Helsinki, Finland Tel. +358-105 2151 • Fax +358-9-694 9196, E-mail: tekes@tekes.fi - www.tekes.fi www.tekes.fi/eng/publications/Wood_Energy_esite.pdf

Other available titles include: Wood fuel : sustainable heat for public buildings

Wood fuels - for residential buildings

A methodological approach for assessing woodfuel sustainability.

An FAO publication in English (2003), entitled WISDOM, an acronym for Woodfuels integrated supply/demand overview mapping.

The basic idea of the book is that a more sustainable use of woodfuels will not only have a positive impact on the environment and support sustainable forest management, but will also contribute towards generating employment and income and thus improve food security in developing countries.

Links to the WISDOM publication can be found on these

Wood and fuels for residential buildings from the Austrian Energy Agency (EVA) (download from site www.eva.ac.at)

How much carbon do we fix in Italy?

Absorption and fixation of carbon in forests and wood products in Italy. Report 21/2002. AA.VV. APAT (Environmental Protection and Technical Services Agency).

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sites: www.fao.org/docrep/005/y4719e/y4719e00.htm www.fao.org/docrep/005/y4719e/y4719e01.htmwww.fao .org/docrep/005/y4719e/y4719e02.htm

Guide to studies on supply, offer and demand of woodfuels.

(Guía para encuestas de demanda, oferta y abastecimiento de combustibles de madera) The document is in Spanish. The guide was made by the Deputy Management for the supplying and marketing of forest products (FOPH).

The document was prepared by Dr

Teresita Arias Chalico in conjunction with Enrique Riegelhaupt.

Further details are available on the website http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/y3779s/y3779s00.htm

Industrial Uses of Biomass Energy: The Example of Brazil.

9 March 2000. 304 p. Jose Goldemberg, Frank Rosillo-Calle, Sergio V. Bajay, Harry Rothman. Publisher: Taylor & Francis; ISBN: 0748408843 Price: £65.00 Synopsis This work demonstrates that energy-rich vegetation, biomass, is a key renewable energy resource for the future.

Most energy scenarios recognize bioenergy as an important component in the future world’s energy outlook, both in developed and developing countries.

Brazil, uniquely, has a recent history of large-scale biomass industrial uses that makes it a specially important test-bed both for the development of biomass technology and its utilization, and for understanding how this is shaped by political and socio-economic forces.

Finally, it is argued that Brazil’s experience with the development for industrial biomass use provides wider lessons and insights in the context of the international movement for sustainable economic development.

This book is an interdisciplinary, multiauthor work, based upon an international study by Brazilian and British experts at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Planning-NIPE, State University Campinas, and the King’s College, University of London.

Production of FT transportation fuels from biomass; technical options, process analysis and optimisation, and development potential.

Publication in English from the University of Utrecht on Fischer Tropsch diesel deriving from biomass. Can be downloaded in its entirety from internet.

The authors are: Hamelinck, C.N., A.P.C. Faaij, H. den Uil, and H. Boerrigter (2003), Utrecht University, Copernicus Institute, Department of Science Technology and Society, Utrecht, Holland. http://www.chem.uu.nl/nws/www/publica/e2003-08.pdf

Assumptions to the Annual Energy Outlook 2003, IEA. The International Energy Agency

NEWS INTERNET

Sites of interest for the forest wood energy sector publishes the Annual Energy Outlook 20 03 based on several data sources including the DOE - EPRI Renewable Energy Technology Characterizations study, to develop the outlook models.

See: Renewables Fuel Module. www.iea.org

Energy in Finland 2003.

Energy Forum of Finland. 2003 A report which offers a cross-section of the use and of the energy sources employed in Finland.

Cost 35 Euros. Can be ordered by e-mail: maarit.karhumaa@allpress.it

www.venetoagricoltura.org/cip/edit/acqua_ fuoco.htm Renewable energies in the mountains – Fire and water for residents. Veneto.

Agriculture. 2002 This publication was prepared as part of the Veneto Region’s initiatives for the International Year of the Mountain 2002.

It can be downloaded from Internet in PDF. It presents technological aspects which respect the mountain environment, including the use of wood for energy.

Link: www.venetoagricoltura.org/cip/ind_edit.htm

Alberto Júlio Tsamba, Exergy, Sweden http://exergy.se/goran/hig/ses/01/ biomass/ Biomass utilisation at a local and regional level Workshop & Study Tour organised in conjunction with III International Slovak Biomass Forum City Hotel, Bratislava, Slovakia 4-5 February 2003 Report from the workshop and study tour online: Experiences & Findings http://www.managenergy.net/ conference/biomass0203.html

Contact: Allpress Oy ja ETY-Lehdet Oy, Bulevardi 6 00120 Helsinki - Finland Tel. +358 0207 334 400; Fax +358 0207 334 429

PERIODICALS

Unasylva - No. 211 - WOOD ENERGY Unasylva is the FAO’s quarterly international journal dedicated to forestry and forest industries, available in English, French and Spanish. Issue 211(Vol. 53 2002/4) is dedicated to energy uses for wood.

FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Editor: A. Perlis - http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/y4450e/ y4450e00.htm

www.combustion-net.com

In 1996, government and industry joined to establish Canada’s Clean Combustion Network. Natural Resources Canada, Industry Canada, the National Research Council, and Environment Canada agreed to participate in and support the Network in its early stages.

Canada’s Clean Combustion Network was designed and is managed by combustion experts and electronic communications specialists.

Combustion experts at CANMET’s Energy Technology Centre, who realized the need for better communications in combustion, helped to develop the system.

One-year subscription US$ 40.00 Contact the Sales and Marketing Group, Information Division, FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome - Italy.

Tel. +39 6 57051; Fax +39 6 5705 3360; http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/005/Y4450E/Y4450E00.HTM

TEHO - Journal (in Finnish with English summaries, 6 times a year).

The TTS-Institute’s Department of Forestry specialises in the development of timber harvesting and silviculture for private, non-industrial forest owners and in the development of the private, nonindustrial forestry sector in general.

The department studies, develops and provides useful information for the bioenergy field.

TTS - Institute, Department of Forestry Department of Forestry P.O. Box 28 00211 Helsinki - Finland Tel.: +358 0 2904 1200 Fax : +358 0 692 2084 http://www.tts.fi

www.alterenerg.be Offers advice services and reliable energ y solutions which respect the environment and have socio-economic sustainability objectives.

ALTERENERG Rudy Overheyden, 9 rue des Jardins - 5537 Annevoie - Belgium Tel +32 82 614.700 - Fax +32 82 614.710 Contact: info@alterenerg.com

Gasification, information on databases Biomass Gasification Systems. Biomass Energy Foundation www.woodgas/com/Gasification.htm World Gasification Survey (pdf) SFA Pacific, 2001, Overview of industrial syngas systems, including biomass http://www.gasification.org/98GTC/GTC 01003.pdf Gasification for Sustainable Development.

www.undp.org/seed/eap/html/ publications/2002/20013108FNRapport.pdf Energy for sustainable development: a policy agenda Editors: Thomas B. Johansson and José Goldemberg Abstract : discusses critical energy policies, illustrated with concrete examples, necessary to address multiple development objectives, including economic growth, equity and environmental protection.

The purpose of the publication is to follow-up on the 2000 report ‘World Energy Assessment: Energy and the Challenge of Sustainability’, a collaborative work to which more than 100 scientists and development experts contributed, and to offer informed guidance on how to shape public policy so that it accelerates the growth of energy systems that support sustainable development.

As the publication describes, policy makers are struggling to understand how to intervene most effectively to stimulate technological innovation, attract private investment, and refocus regulation to advance the economic, social, and environmental objectives of sustainability.

Regrettably, there are no simple blueprints that will work in all situations, but experience over the last several decades has provided valuable insights and it is possible to extract many lessons that can be instructive to policy makers. Case studies throughout the volume provide examples of what has succeeded, and more often, what has failed, and why.

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