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Engineered wood fuels for Southeast Alaska : local wood chips for thermal energy applications, and the specific case of Haines, Alaska
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Portland, Oregon : U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station,

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Forest-Smart Mining : Offset Case Studies
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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Despite its relatively modest footprint, mining is an important driver of deforestation and degradation in tropical forests, often as a result of indirect impacts from associated infrastructure, unplanned development, and in-migration. The World Bank program on extractive industries in forest landscapes aims to ensure that this sector does not erode forest capital, but rather enables client countries and the World Bank Group to make better-informed decisions about minimizing trade-offs and maximizing benefits from forest-smart mining. This document presents five detailed case studies: (1) ArcelorMittal's iron ore project in Liberia, (2) Newmont's Akyem project in Ghana, (3) Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee and Guinea Alumina Corporation's bauxite projects in Guinea, (4) wildlife works' carbon offset project in Kenya, and (5) Aston Coal's Maules Creek coal mine in Australia. Together, they highlight the spectrum of challenges faced by those aiming to implement enduring offsets. The selection of studies was based on their different types of forest landscapes, inclusion of World Bank Group projects, variety of minerals, and availability of data, which constrained the geographical spread of case studies. Section one gives introduction. Section two presents the key lessons learned. The detailed case studies are presented in sections three to seven. Section eight summarizes some practical challenges that may undermine the successful implementation of offsets. Finally, section nine offers some concluding observations.

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Fuelwood --- Logging --- Mining


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Sustainable Energy Systems: From Primary to End-Use
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ISBN: 3039210971 3039210963 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This book focuses on sustainable energy systems. While several innovative and alternative concepts are presented, the topics of energy policy, life cycle assessment, thermal energy, and renewable energy also play a major role. Models on various temporal and geographical scales are developed to understand the conditions of technical as well as organizational change. New methods of modeling, which can fulfil technical and physical boundary conditions and nevertheless consider economic environmental and social aspects, are also developed.

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coal-fired power unit --- capacity investment --- energy density --- sensitivity analysis --- fuel --- renewable energy source penetration --- AHP --- torrefaction --- Active Disturbance Rejection Control --- swell effect disturbance --- renewable energy --- resource efficiency --- choice experiment --- pseudo-Huber loss --- integrated model --- Probabilistic Robustness --- sustainable energy --- Energy Life-Cycle Assessment --- hysteresis switching --- areal grey relational analysis --- market power --- photovoltaic with energy storage system --- wind power plants --- power system stability --- alternative energy --- hollow rollers --- efficiency --- generation system scheduling --- energy from biomass --- fuelwood value index --- manufacturing industry --- game theory --- energy modelling --- peach --- grindability --- artificial neural networks control --- sustainability --- large bearings --- levelized cost of energy --- renewable energies --- ash recovery --- thermodynamic cycle concepts --- modified cycle concepts --- HOMER simulation --- low-carbon economy --- energy systems --- fuzzy logic control --- basic plan for long-term electricity supply and demand --- LCOE comparison --- post-harvest --- heating value --- power supply reliability --- Pinus pinaster --- doubly fed induction generator --- willingness to pay --- multilayer perception --- robust optimization --- forecasting model for electricity demand --- transient impact --- uncertainty --- power electronics --- electrostatic devices --- flexibility --- active power harmonics filter --- Monte Carlo --- energy storage systems --- energy costs --- SWOT analysis --- tidal stream generator --- textile industrial sector --- stochastic approach --- deficit --- uncertainty analysis --- rotary reactor --- biomass --- secondary air regulation --- forecasting --- photovoltaic --- electricity --- Internet of Things --- dynamic planning --- fuzzy rough set --- flexible resource --- wind resources --- op-amp --- maximum power point tracking --- nexus concept

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