Abstract
Kawasaki Biomass Power Plant is the largest biomass power plant in Japan running strictly on wood. It is operated by Furuhashi EPO Corporation and is located in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture. This paper discusses recycling in an urban woody biomass system called FOREST in the City, which is our core business and a system for utilizing wood that gets thinned from forests in mountainous areas. An introduction to our company is also presented. The paper is a commentary on the string cascade utilization system, a solution to the decline in domestic use of forestry thinnings evaluation axis of LC-CO2. Step 1 : by forestry thinning ; Step 2 : by lumber ; Step 3 : by wood pallet ; Step 4 : by wood chips from remaining lumber ; and Step 5: by wood chips from recycling of wood pallet. Finally, regarding conversion to energy, the paper introduces analytical case studies aimed not only at energy generation from municipal waste but also explains a small-scale biomass gasification system located in the mountainous region of East Mikawa in Aichi Prefecture as well as a large urban biomass power generator system, which our business believes can be replaced with a “forest plantations to energy” system.
