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Canada’s forest products industry has a long
history of using mill and forest residues.
First used to heat facilities, residues such as
bark, sawdust, wood chips, branches, and
tree tops are now becoming feedstocks for
sophisticated steam and electricity...
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Canada’s forest products industry has a long
history of using mill and forest residues.
First used to heat facilities, residues such as
bark, sawdust, wood chips, branches, and
tree tops are now becoming feedstocks for
sophisticated steam and electricity cogeneration facilities, lumber drying kilns, and new
bio-energy products such as wood pellets,
syngas, cellulosic ethanol, bio-diesel, and
bio-oil.
Industry Transformation
Leads to a Wealth of
Opportunity
Forest biomass already supplies more than
60 percent of the fuel used to generate heat
and electricity in some Canadian pulp and
paper mills.
This figure will no doubt sharply
increase as governments, institutions, and
industry recognize the need to replace fossil
fuels with more efficient and renewable
energy sources.
Many kraft pulp mills are already installing
condensing turbines to generate more
electricity from cogeneration from black
liquor, sludge, and harvest residue combustion.
According to the Future Bio-Pathways
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