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Greenhouse Gas And Energy Based Life Cycle Analysis Of Products From The Irish Wood Processing Industry, Fionnuala Murphy, Ger Devlin, Kevin Mcdonnell

Fionnuala Murphy

The timber industry in Ireland is an important producer of wood products for export and indigenous use, and supplies significant volumes of sawmill co-products as biomass for energy generation. This research expands existing knowledge on the environmental impacts of wood supply chains in Ireland by widening the analysis to incorporate the wood processing stage. The study determines and analyses energy and material inputs in the production of several timber products; sawnwood, wood chip, wood-based panel (WBP) boards and wood pellets, with an analysis of the resulting greenhouse gas emissions. Forestry operations and transportation make an important contribution to overall emissions. …