COFORD Connects notes (click on name for full text):

• Wood as a renewable source of energy
• Harvesting wood for energy from early first thinnings
• Harvesting wood for energy from later thinnings
• Firewood 
• Quality wood chip fuel 
• Ordering and receiving wood chip fuel
• Delivery and storage of wood chip fuel 
• The production of wood pellets 
• Simple ways to check wood pellet quality
• Guidelines for designing a wood pellet storage facility
• Estimated woodflow or the Republic of Ireland for 2006 
• Roundwood supply, wood energy and related issues in the UNECE region
• Cladding
• An overview of the Irish wood-based biomass sector
• Gasifier-type firewood fuelled boilers
• An outline of the ForestEnergy series of COFORD Connects notes 
• Standard shortwood harvesting of conifer first thinnings for 3 m pulpwood and industrial roundwood 
• Integrated harvesting of conifer first thinnings for 4.3 m energy wood and industrial roundwood 
• Whole-tree harvesting of conifer first thinnings for energy wood chip production 
• Producing firewood from conifer first thinnings 
• Whole-tree harvesting of broadleaf first thinning for energy wood chip production 
• Production of wood chip from premature clearfelling of lodgepole pine on cutaway peat 
• Storage and seasoning of conifer roundwood in the forest 
• Forest storage and seasoning of conifer and broadleaf whole trees 
• Storage and seasoning of conifer and broadleaf firewood 
• Long term storage and seasoning of conifer energy wood
  
• Units, conversion factors and formulae for wood for energy NEW July 2010
  
• Harvesting birch woodland on cutaway peat for wood chip production   NEW July 2010
• Producing firewood from broadleaf first thinnings   NEW July 2010
• Whole-tree harvesting of softwood first thinnings for energy wood chip production, chemical thinning   NEW July 2010
• A synthesis and comparison of forest energy harvesting methods in conifer plantations   NEW July 2010
• A synthesis and comparison of forest energy harvesting methods in broadleaves   NEW July 2010
• An overiew of the Irish wood-based biomass sector in 2007-2008   NEW July 2010
• Preview of European standards for solid biofuels  NEW July 2010
• The greenhouse gas balance of peatland forest   NEW July 2010

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