Purges de découpes
English translation: roadside waste from commercial logging
| 18:18 Jan 28, 2019 |
| French to English translations [PRO] Forestry / Wood / Timber / Biomass Fuels | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Marco Solinas Local time: 18:18 | ||||||
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| 4 | Removal of offcuts |
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| 3 +1 | roadside waste from commercial logging |
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| 3 | clearance of logging residue |
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Removal of offcuts Explanation: eg by contractors trimming branches from roadsides, branches can be used for biofuel if they are of the required standard. |
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peer agreement (net): +1roadside waste from commercial logging Explanation: Purges de découpes commerciales bord de route --> roadside waste from commercial logging In the course of logging operations, the non-marketable parts of the tree (tops, shattered logs, large branches...) are piled up at the logging road side for later removal. This waste constitutes a significant part of the biomass used in power plants (for example): https://www.canadianbiomassmagazine.ca/combustion/filling-th... |
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clearance of logging residue Explanation: Often 25 percent to 45 percent of the trees’ biomass is left on site as timber harvest residue (also called logging residue) If whole-tree extraction is used, the residues are available free of charge at the roadside https://articles.extension.org/pages/71019/biomass-utilizati... The aim of this case study was to clarify the productivity and cost of a system based on bundling logging residues at the roadside landing with the forwarder-mounted logging residue bundler. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/52269145.pdf |
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