REDEVELOPMENT OF A MANUFACTURING FACTORY IN AN ENERGY GENERATION PLANT WITH WOOD BIOMASS

Abstract

KEY WORDS district heating, cogeneration, wood biomass, sustainability, GIS 1 INTRODUCTION The financial crisis that began in 2007, which involved quite all the industrialized Countries, the reduction of the Italian Gross National Product and the Industrial Production in the period 2013-2015, further aggravated by the pandemic crisis, mainly involved the "marginal areas", which already had an "inability to attract people, business activities, and capital investments" (Battino and Lampreu, 2019). Focusing on wood biomasses, several authors highlight the role of the exploitation of residues of forest industry: it reduces the land requirements to produce fuelwood (Syrbe et al, 2022), the GHG emissions (Giuntoli et al, 2021), and has a great impact on the overall availability of wood biomass (del Giudice et al, 2022). To achieve such results the integration with a district heating system shows good performance in combination with a short supply chain, as shown in a case study in northern Italy (Nikodinoska et al, 2018), but to guarantee the sustainability in a long term period is necessary a well-designed forest management system (Lee and Ha, 2022). At first, the research involved the collection of existing data about the currently installed heating plants, energy consumption, outdoor temperatures, and biomass availability; the next step was the estimation of the total power requirements, using the design power and historical temperatures data to perform the technical feasibility.