Growing up at Different Altitudes: Changes in Energy Content of the Abies religiosa Wood

Primer Autor
Musule, R.
Co-autores
Acuna, E.#Romero-Hermoso Osorio, L. S.#Dominguez, Z.#Barcenas-Pazos, G. M.#Pineda-Lopez, M. R.#Teixeira Mendonca, R.#Gonzalez, M. E.#Sanchez-Velasquez, L. R.
Título
Growing up at Different Altitudes: Changes in Energy Content of the Abies religiosa Wood
Editorial
SPRINGER
Revista
BIOENERGY RESEARCH
Lenguaje
en
Resumen
Wood is considered an important renewable energy resource with a variable elemental chemical composition, which may change according to environmental conditions (e.g., temperature, precipitation, altitude). In this study, we evaluated how heating value (HV), elemental chemical composition, and main thermoenergetic parameters of Abies religiosa wood change along an altitudinal gradient. To evaluate these parameters, wood samples were collected from six independent trees in an altitudinal gradient (3000-3500 masl) every 100 m of altitude (36 trees) and their respective HV (higher and low), thermogravimetric and immediate analysis, specific carbon energy (SCE), and fuel value index (FVI) were determined. We found that the higher and lower heating values, elemental chemical composition and the majority of the studied parameters were significantly different (p < 0.05) between altitudes. Our results suggest that A. religiosa wood from 3300 masl has more energy content than wood from 3200 and 3500 masl. Additionally, FVI showed that wood from 3500 masl is the best feedstock in order to use as a solid biofuel. Finally, the results suggest that the altitude at which A. religiosa is grown significantly affects the energetic content of their wood and throughput as a solid biofuel.
Tipo de Recurso
Artículo original
Description
We thank to the Universidad Veracruzana because of the support given to do a research stay in the Universidad de Concepcion, Chile. Ricardo Musule thanks to National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT) because of the given postgraduate scholarship number 344898 and the mixed scholarship for international research.
Agradecemos a la Universidad Veracruzana el apoyo brindado para realizar una estancia de investigación en la Universidad de Concepción, Chile. Ricardo Musule agradece al Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT) por la beca de posgrado número 344898 y la beca mixta para investigación internacional.
doi
10.1007/s12155-017-9889-5
Formato Recurso
pdf
Palabras Claves
Sacred fir# Elevation# Heating value# Elemental analysis# Thermogravimetric analysis# Fuel value index
Ubicación del archivo
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12155-017-9889-5
Categoría OCDE
Energy & Fuels# Environmental Sciences
Materias
Abeto sagrado# Elevación# Valor calorífico# Análisis elemental# Análisis termogravimétrico# Índice de valor del combustible
Disciplinas de la OCDE
Silvicultura
Bioproductos
Otras Ingenierías y Tecnologías
Id de Web of Science
WOS:000425349600018
Título de la cita (Recomendado-único)
Growing up at Different Altitudes: Changes in Energy Content of the <i>Abies religiosa</i> Wood
Identificador del recurso (Mandatado-único)
Artículo original
Versión del recurso (Recomendado-único)
version publicada
Editorial
SPRINGER
Revista/Libro
BIOENERGY RESEARCH
Categoría WOS
Energía y Combustibles# Ciencias Ambientales
ISSN
1939-1234
Idioma
en
Referencia del Financiador (Mandatado si es aplicable-repetible)
Universidad Veracruzana# UdeC#CONACyT 344898
CONACyT 344898
Descripción
We thank to the Universidad Veracruzana because of the support given to do a research stay in the Universidad de Concepcion, Chile. Ricardo Musule thanks to National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT) because of the given postgraduate scholarship number 344898 and the mixed scholarship for international research.
Formato
pdf
Tipo de ruta
hibrida
Access Rights
restringido
Derechos de acceso
restringido
Página de inicio (Recomendado-único)
1098
Página final (Recomendado-único)
1104
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