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Commercial Demonstration of Wood Recovery, Recycling, and Value Adding Technologies. Report for November 20, 2001-May 31, 2004.

DE2004834070

Publication Date	2004
Personal Author	Labrie, T. L.
Page Count	28
Abstract	This commercial demonstration project demonstrated the technical feasibility of converting low-value, underutilized and waste stream solid wood fiber material into higher valued products. With a growing need to increase product/production yield and reduce waste in most sawmills, few recovery operations and practically no data existed to support the viability of recovery operations. Prior to our efforts, most all in the forest products industry believed that recovery was difficult, extremely labor intensive, not cost effective, and that recovered products had low value and were difficult to sell. This project provided an opportunity for many within the industry to see through demonstration that converting waste stream material into higher valued products does in fact offer a solution. Our work, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, throughout the project aimed to demonstrate a reasonable approach to reducing the millions of recoverable solid wood fiber tons that are annually treated as and converted into low value chips, mulch and fuel.
Keywords	Waste product utilization Wood fuels Recycling Sawdust Feasibility Technology assessment Waste stream Sawmills Wood fiber
Source Agency	Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee
Corporate Authors	Maine Technology Inst., Gardiner, ME.; Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	200516

Commercial Demonstration of Wood Recovery, Recycling, and Value Adding Technologies. Report for November 20, 2001-May 31, 2004.

Commercial Demonstration of Wood Recovery, Recycling, and Value Adding Technologies. Report for November 20, 2001-May 31, 2004.
DE2004834070

Publication Date	2004
Personal Author	Labrie, T. L.
Page Count	28
Abstract	This commercial demonstration project demonstrated the technical feasibility of converting low-value, underutilized and waste stream solid wood fiber material into higher valued products. With a growing need to increase product/production yield and reduce waste in most sawmills, few recovery operations and practically no data existed to support the viability of recovery operations. Prior to our efforts, most all in the forest products industry believed that recovery was difficult, extremely labor intensive, not cost effective, and that recovered products had low value and were difficult to sell. This project provided an opportunity for many within the industry to see through demonstration that converting waste stream material into higher valued products does in fact offer a solution. Our work, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, throughout the project aimed to demonstrate a reasonable approach to reducing the millions of recoverable solid wood fiber tons that are annually treated as and converted into low value chips, mulch and fuel.
Keywords	Waste product utilization Wood fuels Recycling Sawdust Feasibility Technology assessment Waste stream Sawmills Wood fiber
Source Agency	Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee
Corporate Authors	Maine Technology Inst., Gardiner, ME.; Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	200516