2007 Reports

• Multifunctional bioenergy systems, Goran Berndes, Pal Borjesson [5.2 Mb PDF]
• Opportunities for Poplar Bioenergy Farms in North America, Jake Eaton  [4.6 Mb PDF]
• Drivers & considerations for bioenergy in Australia, Brendan George & Mike Bennell [3 Mb PDF]
• An Overview of Bioenergy Potentials in the Great Province of Ontario, A.M. Gordon, N. V. Thevathasan, R. L. Clinch, S. L. Hunt and D. M. Morris [large file - please request]
• Woody Biomass Production from agricultural land in Italy, Raffaele Spinelli & Carla Nati [2.7 Mb PDF]
• SRC in New Zealand: Real progress towards fuelling NZ, Ian Nicholas, Ian McIvor, Kevin Snowdon, Tony Lough
• Using Willow Riparian Buffer Strips for Biomass Production and Riparian Protection, W. Schroeder, J. Kort, C. Pharo, J. Simpson, S. Silim, C. Stefner, B. Murray, N. Thevathasan, A. Vezina [1.1 Mb PDF]
• Forest and Agro-forest Woody Feedstock Options for Bioenergy and Bioproducts Conversion, Derek Sidders [large file - please request]
• Biomass Energy in Saskatchewan: Development of Willow Plantations, Ken Van Rees, Nicolas Bélanger, Ryan Hangs, Richard Farrell, Graham Scoles, Vladimir Vujanovic, Robert Grant, Bill Schroeder, Derek Sidders [large file - please request]

2006 Reports

• Feedstock to Furnace: Bioenergy Systems for the Ontario Greenhouse Industry: Potential in Ontario for the Implementation of Willow Short Rotation Coppice Cultivation for Greenhouse Heating [2.2 Mb PDF]

2005 Reports

• Full-scale implementation of SRC-systems: Assessment of Technical and Non-Technical Barriers [1042 Kb Word doc]

2004 Reports

• Recycling of wastewater and sludge in Salix plantations [1437 Kb PDF]

2003 Task Meeting

• 1. Short Rotation Crops in the World, Professor Theo Verwijst [143 Kb PDF]
• 2. A review of Short Rotation Crops (SRC) environmental and economic externalities - Australasian implications, I.D. Nicholas and D.O. McGuire [206 Kb PDF]
• 3. Bioenergy in New Zealand - The way forward, Peter Denstead [145 Kb PDF]
• 4. SRC in New Zealand: Policies and research - a brief overview, Ian Nicholas [247 Kb PDF]
• 5. The place for bioenergy in the New Zealand energy market, Brian Cox [300 Kb PDF]
• 6. The cost relativity of New Zealand biomass heating fuel systems, Ralph E.H. Sims and Piero Venturi [194 Kb PDF]
• 7. Markets for Short Rotation Crops - European experience, Eddie Johansson [330 Kb PDF]
• 8. Markets for Short Rotation Crops - the American experience, Jake Eaton [98 KB PDF]
• 9. Eucalypt SRC - sensitivity analysis of growing costs in New Zealand, Ian Nicholas [145 Kb PDF]
• 10. Market values for growing eucalypts in the Central North Island - chips and solid wood, K. Molony, S. Kincheff and B. Poole [72 Kb PDF]
• 11. Delivering on the energy copice promise - A UK experience, Charlotte Bruton and Keith Richards [221 KB PDF]
• 12. Sustainability of willow SRF during later cutting cycles, Nils-Erik Nordh [136 Kb PDF]
• 13. The Swedish Enkoping CHP plant, Eddie Johansson [309 Kb PDF]
• 14. Residues after eucalypt harvesting in New Zealand, P. Hall and I.D. Nicholas [155 Kb PDF]
• 15. Experimental Short Rotation Crops in Croatia, Davorin Kajba and Sasa Bogdan [107 Kb PDF]
• 16. Harvest techiques in Europe, Nils-Erik Nordh and Ioannis Dimitriou [120 Kb PDF]
• 17. Developing a biomass supply chain for new Australian crops, Mr R.C. Giles and Dr H.D. Harris [320 Kb PDF]
• 18. Transport economics for short rotation coppice, Ralph E.H. Sims [416 Kb PDF]
• 19. SRC eucalypt combustion, Anthony H. Clemens and Desmond Gong [140 Kb PDF]
• 20. Pellets - processing into a pellet fuel, Dr Per Nielsen and George Estcourt [126 Kb PDF]
• 21. Co-firing opportunities - knowing what to expect, Anthony H. Clemens and Desmond Gong [138 Kb PDF]
• 22. Combustion economics, Dave Bennett [153 Kb PDF]
• 23. Utilization of short rotation woody crops in the western USA, Jake Eaton [296 Kb PDF]
• 24. Phase farming with trees: An option for dryland salinity control and feedstock for bioenergy, N. Robinson, R.J. Harper and A.T. Stilwell [233 Kb PDF]
• 25. Australasian experiences with land treatment schemes and irrigated forestry, Don McGuire, Ian Nicholas and Tom Baker [159 Kb PDF]
• 26. Wastewater phytoremediation treatment systems in Sweden using short rotation willow coppice, Ioannis Dimitrious and Par Aronsson [106 Kb PDF]
• 27. Using poplars and willows for Phytoremedation in the USA, J.G. Isebrands [105 Kb PDF]
• 28. Nitrogen uptake in New Zealand Short Rotation Crops, Ian Nicholas [117 Kb PDF]
• 29. Interplanting for bioenergy and riparian restoration in the southeastern USA, Jon Stanturf, Emile Gardiner and Stephen Schoenholtz [148 Kb PDF]
• 30. Biomass production and other ecological processes in rehabilitated riparian zones: 18 years of results from Southern Ontario, Canada, M. Gordon, ME. Oelbermann, N.K. Kaushik and N.V. Thevathasan [88 Kb PDF]
• 31. SRC for carbon sequestration, Adele Culvert [223 Kb PDF]
• 32. Land assessment to integrate trees with agriculture for biomass production, carbon sequestration and salinity control, R.J. Harper, K.R.J. Smettem and R.J. Gilkes [126 Kb PDF]
• 33. Industrial SRC policy, John Gifford and Brian Cox [104 Kb PDF]
• 34. Certification for short rotation fast-wood forestry - lessons from the New Zealand experience, Chris Goulding and Errol Hay [178 Kb PDF]
• 35. SRC with eucalypts in Brazil, Laercio Couto, Ian Nicholas, Marcelo Dias Muller and Daniel Camara Barcellos [95 Kb PDF]

2002 Task Meeting

• Short Rotation Crops for Bioenergy Systems, Verqijst [42 Kb PDF]
• Tree and Stand Biomass Estimation Using aTarif Approach, Dan McGuire [1403 Kb PDF]
• Linking Phytoremediation Applications with Bioenergy, Dr Louis Licht [4990 Kb PDF]

• Development of short rotation willow coppice systems for environmental purposes in Sweden, Jaconette Mirck [614 Kb PDF]

• Renewable energy in organic farming, Uffe Jorgensen [466 Kb PDF]

• The interaction of tree stocking, soil and foliar nutrition and climate on stand productivity of selected eucalypt species in New Zealand, Ian Nicholas [209 Kb PDF]

2001 Task Meeting

• The Danish Energy Crop Research and Development Project, Morten Gylling,  [134 KB PDF]

• Energy Crops for Agriculture - Benefits or Constraints? Irene A. Wiborg, [66 Kb PDF]

• Securing of Supply in Short and Longer Term of Wood and Straw, Gert Schultz [109 Kb PDF]

• Harvesting and Handling of Miscanthus, Erik Flojgaard Kristensen [173 Kb PDF]

• Greenhouse Gas Emission from Agriculture and the Possible Mitigation by Production of Energy Crops, Jorgen E. Olesen [131 Kb PDF]

• How is Life if you try to Live from Developing SRC in Denmark?, Vibe Gro and Damian Culshaw [302 Kb PDF]

• Combustion of Miscanthus and other Biofuels in a Full-Scale CHP Plant, Las D. Fenger [169 Kb PDF]

• Combined Production of Biomass for Energy and Clean Drinking Water, Uffe Jorgensen [914 Kb PDF]

2000 Task Meeting

• Proceedings from March 2000 Meeting, Albany, WA

1999 Task Meeting

• 1999 Meeting Report [1522 Kb PDF]

Handbook

• Short Rotation Forestry Handbook [2806 Kb Help file]

• How to Grow Black Locust [49 Kb Help file]

• Contents - Brazil [109 Kb Help file]

Articles

• Technology Transfer in Reality [819 Kb Word doc]

• Performance and Sustainability of Short-Rotation Energy Crops Treated with Municipal and Industrial Residues [368 Kb PDF]

• Chicken and (Wood) Chips [159 Kb PDF]

 

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