Estimating GHG Emissions from the Manufacturing of Field-Applied Biochar Pellets Rick Bergman Hongmei Gu US Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory Madison, WI, USA 2016 Society of Wood Science and Technology, March 6 - 11, 2016 Curitiba, Brasil Hanwen Zhang Karl Englund Washington State University Composite Materials & Engineering Center Pullman, WA, USA Keith Windell US Forest Service Missoula Technology & Development Center Missoula, MT, USA
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Estimating GHG Emissions from the
Manufacturing of Field-Applied Biochar Pellets
Rick Bergman
Hongmei Gu
US Forest Service
Forest Products Laboratory
Madison, WI, USA
2016 Society of Wood Science and Technology, March 6-11, 2016 Curitiba, Brasil
Hanwen Zhang
Karl Englund
Washington State University
Composite Materials & Engineering Center
Pullman, WA, USA
Keith Windell
US Forest Service
Missoula Technology & Development Center
Missoula, MT, USA
United States has 304 million hectares of
forest and US Forest Service manages 20%
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US Forest Products
Laboratory
Presentation overview
A. Overall project
1. Feedstock development
2. Product development
3. Biofuels development analysis
1. Evaluate net life cycle greenhouse gas emissions and
energy balance of novel thermochemical conversion
B. Life cycle analysis subtask
1. Goal and scope of LCA
2. Method (collecting and modeling run data)
3. Results
4. Conclusions
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Technical Area 3: Biofuels development analysis
1. Find GHG emissions and mass and energy balances
for the Tucker renewable natural gas (RNG) unit
2. Evaluate the impacts for forest biomass utilization
3. Develop financial models for biomass on economic
conditions in the US West
4. Develop an economic synthesis of modular gasification
at forest industry facilities
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Background: BRDI project ----
Integration of Biofuels and Bioproducts Production
into Forest Products supply Chains using Modular
Biomass Gasification and Carbon Activation
Estimating GHG Emissions from the Manufacturing of Field-Applied Biochar Pellets
Reason for study
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• Biomass as a sustainable feedstock for creating bioproducts
• Restoration treatments on western U.S. forests produce
large quantities of woody biomass
• Biochar application to forest soils
− direct benefits including carbon sequestration
− indirect benefits
• Biochar
− positive environmental climate benefits
− more stable when field-applied to forest soils than wood itself
• Categorizing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and carbon
sequestration profile
Estimating GHG Emissions from the Manufacturing of Field-Applied Biochar Pellets
Carbon sequestration by biochar
One metric ton of oven dry
building timber stores roughly
510 kg of carbon (species
dependent), corresponding to
1.8 metric ton of CO2;
One metric ton of biochar stores
roughly 890 kg of carbon,
corresponding to 3.3 metric ton
of CO2;
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Life-cycle assessment (LCA)
ISO 14040 (2006): Clause
4.3. Features of an
attributional LCA
“LCA assesses, in a
systematic way, the
environmental aspects and
impacts of product systems,
from raw material extraction
to final disposal, in
accordance with the stated
goal and scope;”
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Another way to put it
LCA calculates all kinds
of environmental
impacts (carbon
footprint, energy, water,
acidity, toxicity, etc.) for
a product or service
across the entire life
cycle – from raw
material extraction, to
product making, to
distribution, use, and
end of life.
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Scope of LCA project
• Unit process modeling
– Gate-to-gate
– Detailed mass and energy
balance
• Define the system
boundaries
– What flows in and out is
accounted for
• Select functional unit
– Per kg of field-applied
biochar pellets (OD kg)
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System boundary
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