Wood-fuel-fired electric-power-generating plants. Summary and report, Volume 1

Technical Report · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1978

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6048644· OSTI ID:6048644

Pingrey, D. W.; Waggoner, N. E.

A questionnaire study was made of the forest projects, pulp and paper and other industries that burn wood for fuel to produce electricity from steam. In the fall of 1977, inquiries were sent out to industry and government to locate wood-burning electrical power production facilities. A study of the information obtained from the questionnaires indicated that: electrical generating facilities were being operated continuously in the pulp and paper and other industries, but only about one-half of the forest products industry mills did so; fossil fuel comprised about 54.5% of fuels used for electric generation by the pulp and paper industry but only 1 or 2% of the fuels used by the forest products and other industries who burned woody residues; of the 39 pulp and paper mills reporting only 5 were not co-generating as opposed to the forest products industry where 20 out of the 27 responding mills were not; all mills used their wood wastes and about one-half of the mills purchased waste wood residues from others at an average price of about $6.00 per ton (wet); questionnaires were returned locating 82.6 MW of electrical production capability from 24 forest products industry mills; questionnaires were returned locating 1010.6 MW of electrical power production capability from 36 pulp and paper mills; and the electrical powerproduction capability of the pulp and paper industry was estimated to be about 3600 MW and the same capability for the forest products industry was estimated to be 800 MW. The study indicates that while the pulp and paper industry was using and purchasing wood residues to reduce energy demands, the forest products industry generally was not using its available wastes and generating capacity to produce electricity. The production and sale of electrical power produced from wood residues at the rates being offered by the electric utilities, were too low to stimulate interest or show a profit.

• Research Organization: Nor'West-Pacific Corp., Seattle, WA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6048644
• Report Number(s): TID-28963
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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