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TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY OF FOREST RESIDUES RECOVERY BY PELLETIZATION, IN THE WESTERN “SIERRA MADRE” IN MÉXICO
Autor
MONICA MORENO LOPEZ
IGNACIO RAMIRO MARTIN DOMINGUEZ
MARIA TERESA ALARCON HERRERA
Institución
Resumen
Mexican forest resources are concentrated along two large ridges (eastern and western Sierra Madre) (fig 1)
that supply most of the timber products consumed in the country. Mexican forest industries create significant
quantities of waste in the form of sawdust, bark, cuts and foliage, which in most cases ends up as garbage in the
vicinity of the sawmills (fig 2). This waste creates a serious environmental pollution and fire hazard problem.
One possible solution to the described problem is to transform the forest waste into a biofuel, this work
presents an estimation of the wood pellets generation potential, based on the forest wastes produced in the
sawmills. Unlike other developed countries in the northern hemisphere, currently in Mexico there are not pellet
industries established yet. The feasibility of implementing pellet manufacturing and consumption in Mexico will
depend upon several factors ranging from the availability of raw materials to quality and logistics. To quantify
the volume of generated waste, a field study was performed in Madera City, Chihuahua, where the major
sawmills in the region where surveyed. To carry out the characterization of the wood-waste, a manual pelletizer
prototype was built. The produced pellets were found to comply with the requirements of DIN Plus Standard
for high quality pellets. Thus, an economic analysis is developed to evaluate the feasibility of commissioning a
pelletizing plant in the Madera City region, which is representative of similar cities in the Sierra Madre. Five
different commercially available pelletizing machines were analyzed. Included parameters were pellets selling
price, existing waste availability, machine production capacities and costs, power requirements, operating
expenses (salaries, maintenance and electricity costs), and machine recovery price.
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