Abstract
Abstract The transportation of forestry products is performed over long distances and is quite expensive, which limits the development of biofuel plants in Russia and around the world. The use of timber terminals contributes to transportation cost reduction and mitigates negative environmental impacts. This work aims to analyze various technological solutions for optimization of forestry products processing at temporary terminals and cost reduction of transportation, shipping, and wood treatment. The work presents a discussion on the technological and economic possibilities of the mobile pellet plant, the mobile essential oil production plant, and an enhanced autonomous electric generator system. It is shown that the use of mobile plants for obtaining pellets and essential oils allows processing wood residues at the terminal, which reduces the cost of transportation and shipment of raw materials and improves the quality of the finished products. The current study also examines some of the modern scanning technologies used to detect log defects and obtain complete biometric information in real time while assessing the productivity of wood processing operations. The results of the study can be used to develop efficient movable timber terminals.
Highlights
With the aim of reducing the impact of human activities on climate change and environmental ecology in the global community, different actions to reduce the extraction of fossil energy resources and the transition to renewable energy sources in the production and transmission processes have been undertaken (Dogaru 2020; Halkos & Gkampoura 2020; Morita et al 2002)
The success of such a transition depends on optimizing the supply of renewable raw materials, developing competitive production systems, and long-term regulation to compete against fossil fuel products (Giuliano et al 2016)
There is an excess of forest biomass in Northern European and Russian countries, which includes discarded wood, forest residues, branchwood, andstumps(Athanassiadis&Nordfjell2017).IntheRussian forestry sector, there has been a gradual impoverishment of quality roundwood in the developed commercial forests and the associated continued growth of the logging transportation arm, which has already exceeded 300 km in Siberia and the Far East (Lobovikov & Pryadilina 2020; Likhouzova & Demianova 2021)
Summary
With the aim of reducing the impact of human activities on climate change and environmental ecology in the global community, different actions to reduce the extraction of fossil energy resources and the transition to renewable energy sources in the production and transmission processes have been undertaken (Dogaru 2020; Halkos & Gkampoura 2020; Morita et al 2002). The success of such a transition depends on optimizing the supply of renewable raw materials, developing competitive production systems, and long-term regulation to compete against fossil fuel products (Giuliano et al 2016). The prospects for offsetting the costs of developing a network of forest roads for forest users
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