Avaliação do potencial de produção e exportação de pellets combustivelno polo florestal da região Sul do Brasil / Assessment of the potential of woodpellets production and export in the forestry pole of Brazilian southern region

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

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Pellets is a solid biofuel that has been fairly used in developed countries of temperate climate. In recent years its consumption has increased for residential heating and electricity and thermal generation in co-firing plants, particularly in Europe, that is worldwide the largest pellets market. Brazil has good potential to be a supplier in the emerging pellets market due to its forest tradition, adequate weather, land availability and a well-organized forestry segment. Based on the availability of biomass, it can be considered that there are two regions in Brazil that are promising for pellets production from wood waste: the North and South regions, but with a strong advantage of the second due to the supply chain of forest products based on commercial plantations; the production in the North region would suffer severe constraints due to the difficulty in tracking the sources of biomass. The assessment regarding the potential of pellets production for exporting is based on a hypothetical venture aiming at producing woodpellets in Paraná, considering real market conditions and logistics. The results indicate that a pellets plant with capacity to produce 100,000 t of pellets/year, biomass price turning around US$ 19.00/m3, and pellets price at European harbors (CIF value) as ¿ 140 per tonne, would be feasible, with an IRR of 17% or a NPV of US$ 1.7 million at a discount rate of 13%. The two main important factors in the final cost are the shipping cost from Brazil to Europe and the price of the raw material (i.e., its opportunity cost). As expected, the economic feasibility depends on the cost of raw material, as well as on the price paid for the product in European harbors

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residuos de madeira como combustivel biomassa vegetal plant biomass biofuel mudanças climaticas energia da biomassa climatic changes biomass biomassa wood waste as fuel

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