The paper describes the reasons that led the Regional Department of Rural and Territorial Development to take part in the PROFORBIOMED Project. They can be summarized by the need to dispose of a tool for the sustainable management of all the state-owned forests of the Region. As a matter of fact, the Project aims at developing a model of sustainable forest management, through the recovery and reuse of wood scraps from ordinary silvicultural operations, to be used for the production of power and heat inside of a process adopting natural renewable energy sources. The main actions taken and the methodologies adopted are described, as well as the principles and instruments required for the setting up and execution of the work. Some of the most relevant are: the drafting of “Forest Management Plans”, the “Short Supply Chain” and the “Biomass Traceability Protocol”, together with the application of “Best Practices” of Management and the “Monitoring of impacts” caused by the woody biomass extraction procedures. The “forest – wood – energy” chain developed and proposed is exclusively related to the territory pertaining to one municipality, and with CHP plants fed with biomass exclusively produced within the territory of each municipality, in strict compliance with the “sustainable forest management” principles, as well as with the fundamental principle of “short supply chain”. For these reasons the CHP plans proposed shall be sized according to the biomass available in each municipality, with the possibility of integrating residual forest biomass with other waste wood resources potentially available in the territory and coming from prunings in agricultural activities. Therefore, the replicable model prepared and proposed by PROFORBIOMED aims at appraising from the economic point of view a waste product, such is currently considered the residual forest biomass from the forests of Sicily, and at the same time significantly improving the natural environment, thanks to the reduction in oil consumption.

Nell’ottica di un utilizzo energetico sostenibile delle biomasse provenienti dalle utilizzazioni forestali è di fondamentale importanza conoscere la consistenza e le esigenze ecologiche delle formazioni forestali che caratterizzano il territorio regionale. In questo lavoro è illustrato uno studio sulla consistenza e sulle caratteristiche ecologiche e strutturali dei rimboschimenti presenti nel territorio dei Monti Sicani. L’analisi è finalizzata a quantificare la disponibilità di biomassa forestale residuale ottenibile dalla gestione sostenibile di tali popolamenti e valutare il possibile uso energetico. L’analisi è stata condotta sulla base dei dati disponibili per l’area di studio presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Forestali dell’Università di Palermo. La stima della biomassa disponibile (ramaglia e fusti) si è basata sulla pianificazione di un diradamento da realizzare nelle aree a selvicoltura attiva in funzione della densità/grado di copertura e della pendenza. I risultati dell’analisi confermano che i quantitativi di biomassa ricavabili dalla gestione sostenibile dei rimboschimenti dei Monti Sicani risultano adeguati per ipotizzare la realizzazione di piccoli impianti di cogenerazione a scala di territorio comunale.

La Mela Veca, D.S., Clementi, G., Traina, G. (2014). Rimboschimenti e uso energetico della biomassa forestale nei Monti Sicani (Sicilia occidentale). In D.S. La Mela Veca, D. Karniadaki, C. Rubino (a cura di), Gestione sostenibile delle foreste Mediterranee e uso energetico delle biomasse forestali residuali (pp. 10-16). Palermo : Dipartimento Regionale dello Sviluppo Rurale e Territoriale, Regione Siciliana.

Rimboschimenti e uso energetico della biomassa forestale nei Monti Sicani (Sicilia occidentale)

LA MELA VECA, Donato Salvatore;
2014-01-01

Abstract

The paper describes the reasons that led the Regional Department of Rural and Territorial Development to take part in the PROFORBIOMED Project. They can be summarized by the need to dispose of a tool for the sustainable management of all the state-owned forests of the Region. As a matter of fact, the Project aims at developing a model of sustainable forest management, through the recovery and reuse of wood scraps from ordinary silvicultural operations, to be used for the production of power and heat inside of a process adopting natural renewable energy sources. The main actions taken and the methodologies adopted are described, as well as the principles and instruments required for the setting up and execution of the work. Some of the most relevant are: the drafting of “Forest Management Plans”, the “Short Supply Chain” and the “Biomass Traceability Protocol”, together with the application of “Best Practices” of Management and the “Monitoring of impacts” caused by the woody biomass extraction procedures. The “forest – wood – energy” chain developed and proposed is exclusively related to the territory pertaining to one municipality, and with CHP plants fed with biomass exclusively produced within the territory of each municipality, in strict compliance with the “sustainable forest management” principles, as well as with the fundamental principle of “short supply chain”. For these reasons the CHP plans proposed shall be sized according to the biomass available in each municipality, with the possibility of integrating residual forest biomass with other waste wood resources potentially available in the territory and coming from prunings in agricultural activities. Therefore, the replicable model prepared and proposed by PROFORBIOMED aims at appraising from the economic point of view a waste product, such is currently considered the residual forest biomass from the forests of Sicily, and at the same time significantly improving the natural environment, thanks to the reduction in oil consumption.
2014
Settore AGR/05 - Assestamento Forestale E Selvicoltura
La Mela Veca, D.S., Clementi, G., Traina, G. (2014). Rimboschimenti e uso energetico della biomassa forestale nei Monti Sicani (Sicilia occidentale). In D.S. La Mela Veca, D. Karniadaki, C. Rubino (a cura di), Gestione sostenibile delle foreste Mediterranee e uso energetico delle biomasse forestali residuali (pp. 10-16). Palermo : Dipartimento Regionale dello Sviluppo Rurale e Territoriale, Regione Siciliana.
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