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Date : January 20, 2016 - January 21, 2016
Promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources is expected to solve issues of global climate change, environmental destruction and the problem of energy supply. The use of wood to generate energy is expected in Japan, because 67 percent of the land is forest in Japan. Japanese government started FIT in 2012 for renewable energy promotion. Woody biomass depletion has been happening, because many biomass power plants are standing in disorderly. For the use of woody biomass, amount estimation of the available wood is the essential. The available wood in the Kumano region (the south of Mie prefecture in the middle of Japan) was measured in this study. Furthermore, we were measuring the volume, weight, moisture content and water content of the wood and wood chips. Four moisture meters used to determine water content of logs with electrical resistance method, and also the moisture content of wood chips was measured by balances equipped with heater. As a result, the total amounts of available wood in the Kumano region were estimated 74,000 t/year.
