REPUBLIC OF TURKEY General Directorate of Forestry www'ogm'gov'tr

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REPUBLIC OF TURKEY General Directorate of
Forestrywww.ogm.gov.tr

From Wood to Energy (Biomass Energy)
Ramazan DOGAN
Forest Engineer ramazanserur_at_hotmail.com
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The Battel against climate change can not be
won without the worlds forests.
Ban Ki-moon
General secretary of UN
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General Framework
Most nations and Turkey are facing shortages
of energy source . It is really necessary to find
domestic alternative energy sources in order to
reduce using of imported energy . For this
reason, It is important to study on alternative
energy.
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Why Bioenergy ?

• Prices of fossil fuels were steadily increasing
  over the last five years with no indication of
  downwards
• using biomass promotes domestic energy,gaurantees
  sustainability and creates also new markets for
  farmers and foresters, many of whom currently
  face economic hardship

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Why Bioenergy ?

• The main reason of global warming and climate
  change is fossil fuels
• The world is looking for alternative renewable
  local energy resources that pollute the
  environment less.

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Turkeys forest map
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Turkeys Forest Resource

• Totally 21 million hectares forest land and this
  comprises 27 of national territory.
• Over 99 of the forests are state-owned.

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Turkeys Forest Resource

• Forests are generally located on mountainous
  areas and they are usually natural and
  semi-natural with high biodiversity value.

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Biomass Reserve in Turkey

• In our forests, 15 million m3 wood is produced
  annually. In this calculation only the trunks of
  the trees are taken into account.

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• Biomass Reserve in Turkey
• Some of the biomass remains in forests is used by
  forest villagers for heating,cooking and for
  similiar uses.
• Consequently it is considered that annual
• 7 million m3 biomass can be used for production
  of biomass energy.

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Biomass usage in Turkey

• Çaycuma Paper Mill produces its daily 10 MW
  energy demand from the wood barks which are the
  waste of the materials used in paper production.

Conversion plant from biomass to electric
energy , Biomass from wood
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Biomass usage in Gelibolu Forest Sub-District

• Wood residues, tree roots and another
  materials collected from fired areas have been
  used for producing heating energy in Gelibolu
  Forest Sub-District Administration building and
  public housing.

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Gelibolu Forest Sub-District

• Biomass derived from tree roots and tree
  branches ,
• Fired materials and its granulated state

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Gelibolu Forest Sub-District

• Heating boiler that used for producing
• heating energy by combustion of biomass

Picture from heated areas
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Biomass usage in Kozak
Forest Sub-District
Stone Pinea covers the most part of the area in
Kozak Forest Sub-District.The most important
source of income for the villagers is obtained
from Stone Pinea cones production. The
sub-district building is heated with the
materials which are the waste of the cones
remains after production.

Production biomass
from Stone Pinea Cones
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Kozak Forest Sub-District
Usage and storage of produced biomass
Combustion of produced biomass and a scenery from
heated areas
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Biomass usage in Forest Regional Directorate of
Bolu
Feeling need for Heating energy of Aydinpinar
Forest Sub-district administration building and
4 public housing have been provided with unused
residues after harvesting. It is estimated that
usage of 250 kg biomass per day will be enough to
heat both the administration building and the
public housings. Aladag Forest Distric
Directorate heats guesthouses by using biomass
which obtained unused residuse from forest.
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Forest Regional Directorate of Bolu
Biomass Activities in Forest Regional Directorate
of Bolu
Boiler adapted for biomass
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Meeting on Bioenergy Targets
General Director Assistant and Presedent of
Bioenergy Report Mr. Ismail BELEN
General Director Osman KAHVECI
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Meeting on Bioenergy Targets
Forest Production and Marketing Department
Erdem KAPLAN
Bartin University, Forest Faculty
Prof.Dr.Nedim Saraçoglu
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Meeting on Bioenergy Targets
Other participants
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General Directorate of Forestry 2009 Targets
About Bioenergy

• These activities started in 2008 and this
  process will continue wherever possible and
  lucrative.The system using harvesting
  residues, stone cones, tree roots and the other
  suitable materials for energy production will be
  extended immediately amoung all rural
  organization structures.
• Identifying unusual harvesting residues in the
  areas with high raw material potential and with
  intensive forestry activities and facilitating
  their use in biomass production.

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2009 Targets About Bioenergy

• Encourange to use of alive and lifeless
  materials which blocks the regeneration
  activities , have fire risks and can cause
  resource of harmfull insects, in a way that will
  not harm the naturel balance and biodiversity.
• Valorization of marginal lands which are
  nonproductive agricultural areas will be builded
  for enterpreneurs to invest in agroforestry and
  energy forestry.

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2009 Targets About Biomass

• Establishing of biomass power plant will
  produce electric and heat energy from biomass and
  in the sales of produced electric and heat
  energy.
• Private sector will be encouraged on producing
  pellet by using unusuable residues from forests.

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2009 Targets About Biomass

• Adaptation of the current legal arrangements
  on biomass will be provided according to EU
  norms.
• The Scientific and Technological Research
  Council of Turkey ( TÜBITAK ) projects about
  searching bioenergy potantial regions will be
  carried out with universities in collaboration.

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• Thank You For Your Attention
• Ramazan DOGAN
• Forest Engineer
• ramazanserur_at_hotmail.com
• General Directorate of Forestry
• www.ogm.gov.tr