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Assessing community forest resources to determine potential for biomass district heating in one rural and one remote First Nation of Northwestern Ontario
(2016)
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the feasibility of using biomass in rural and remote First Nations for the purpose of supplying biomass district heating plants. The availability of forest resources, including the ...
Supply chain management of advanced wood pellets: storage and real time field characterization
(2017)
Canada announced plans to phase-out coal-fired electricity generation by 2030. Therefore, in 2014, the province of Ontario has phased out the use of coal in the production of electricity. Former coal powered generating ...
Lignocellulosic materials in hydrolysis and spent liquors
(2018)
Biomass pretreatment is widely used for softening biomass prior to its disintegration for value added product production. There are numerous methods for biomass pre-treatment, among which alkaline pulping and acid hydrolysis ...
Techno-economic analysis and supply chain design for a forest biorefinery to produce value-added bio-based products from lignin
(2019)
By far, several commercial projects for production of lignin-based chemicals started
operations around the world. For instance, the LignoBoost process was installed by Domtar
in 2013 in the United States, and in 2015 by ...
The estimation of boreal forest properties using spectral indices
(2018)
The field of forestry has evolved to meet several objectives, including timber and other forest product production, tourism and recreation, habitat and wildlife management and climate change monitoring. As the field ...
Properties Of Fire-Salvaged Woody Biomass In Northern Ontario And Potential Utilization
(2020)
Due to the suppression of forest fires and lack of implementation of
management tools such as prescribed burning, there has been a change in the
fire regime of Northern Ontario. This has led to larger, more intense fires ...
Evaluating the effects of clearcutting, wildfire, and bioenergy wood ash application on forest soils to improve emulation silviculture
(2023)
Ontario’s forest management guides promote the use emulation silviculture to manage
the province’s forests on a landscape scale based on natural disturbance regimes. While clearcut
harvesting can have similar effects to ...
Integrated resource management options for the jack pine budworm (Choristoneura pinus pinus) outbreak around Pikangikum First Nation
(2023)
The outbreak of jack pine budworm (Choristoneura pinus pinus) on
the Whitefeather Forest was examined to identify a correlation between the
large fires and the outbreak. Maps and literature regarding both disturbances
were ...
Evaluation of Canada’s biomass policy in comparison to its Nordic counterparts
(2023)
The transition towards renewable energy sources is considered one of the main
mitigation measures combating the effects of climate change. The use of renewable
energy, particularly those derived from forest biomass, is ...
Forest stand type and forest diversity affect on above ground carbon biomass in Ontario's boreal forest
(2023)
Biomass is a renewable organic material that is the living and recently dead
organic material synthesized by plants and other organisms (Battles 2015). Quantifying
forests and determining their value is an increasingly ...