Wood energy recovery
Wood for energy : Properties and associated technologies

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Wood energy recovery


Wood for energy : Properties and associated technologies

Authors : Xavier DEGLISE, André DONNOT

Publication date: October 10, 2020, Review date: October 1, 2020 | Lire en français

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3. Wood energy recovery

The current trend in energy recovery is as follows:

  • directly in combustion from the individual scale to the scale of biomass power plants consuming up to 1 mm 3 of wood per year, with wood pellets as fuel;

  • in synthetic natural gas (SNG) injected into the natural gas distribution network;

  • into biofuels, or rather hydrocarbon agrofuels or alcohols.

Biofuels or agrofuels, once considered "miracle products", are now being challenged as competing with food production. For this reason, second-generation biofuels are now being developed from lignocellulosic products derived from forestry by-products.

A distinction is made between first-generation agrofuels, derived mainly from...

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