The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Improved Advanced Biomass Logistics Utilizing Woody Feedstocks

Harvesting and transportation makes up 40 –60% of the delivered cost of SRWC and are an important source of GHG emissions. Harvesting systems are not well developed — throughput decreases up to 65% from harvester to short term storage. Changes in biomass quality and impacts of pretreatment techniques are not well understood. And most of the available data on SRWC harvesting operations is based on trials in small, research plots. The goal of this project is to lower the delivered cost of short rotation woody crops (SRWC) (hybrid poplar in the northwest and willow in the northeast) by optimizing harvesting and logistics supply systems while maintaining or improving biomass quality along the supply chain. SUNY’s Tim Volk leads the team of researchers.