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Biomass Magazine
A new quality standard for wood chip heating fuel is now available. The American National Standards Institute recently approved AD17225-4 Wood Chip Heating Fuel Quality Standard, which is a revised version of the international standard ISO 17225-4.
The standard development project was coordinated by the Biomass Energy Resource Center, the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, the Biomass Thermal Energy Council, and Innovative Natural Resource Solutions LLC. Funding for the project was provided by the USDA Forest Service.
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FPS
The 72nd International Convention (IC) will take place June 11-14, 2018, at Monona Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin. The annual IC is the premier event for forest products industry leaders, researchers and students, offering a world-class platform to share research, discoveries and scientific advances. The theme is "Forest Products — Key to a Sustainable Future." The program will feature specific sessions on wood-based building products, forest-based bioproducts and education. For enhanced networking and an expanded audience, the 2018 IC will be held in conjunction with TAPPI's International Conference on Nanotechnology.
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Crosscut
The Nature Conservancy is trying to figure out how to bring back forests that once dominated our coast. The organization is reshaping young industrially-planted stands so that they can develop into the stands of old growth — big trees more than 150 years old that provide frameworks for complex forest ecosystems — of the distant future.
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Woodworking Network
An agreement has been reached in the case of Sierra Club v. Pruitt that sets new Formaldehyde Rule "manufactured by" dates for producers and fabricators of composite wood panels to June 1, 2018, for CARB Phase 2 or TSCA Title VI compliant materials, with only TSCA Title VI compliant and labeled products allowable after March 22, 2019. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California/Oakland Division is expected to accept the agreement, reached Friday night, March 9, by the parties in the case of the Sierra Club and A Community Voice-Louisiana v. Scott Pruitt in his official capacity as Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
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Biomass Magazine
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has released the March edition of its Short-Term Energy Outlook, predicting that non-hydropower renewables will provide 10 percent of U.S. electricity generation in 2018 and nearly 11 percent in 2019, up from less than 10 percent in 2017.
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Canadian Biomass
Purdue University researchers studying whether concrete is made stronger by infusing it with microscopic-sized nanocrystals from wood are moving from the laboratory to the real world with a bridge that will be built in California this spring. The researchers have been working with cellulose nanocrystals, byproducts generated by the paper, bioenergy, agriculture and pulp industries, to find the best mixture to strengthen concrete, the most common man-made material in the world.
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Woodworking Network
At Linnaeus University, Min Hu, Ph.D. has been studying timber for the future of sustainable building. The focus of this research is the stiffness of the boards, which is the governing engineering property in many structural applications. The suggested timber models in this research enable an accurate stiffness profile along timber boards, by which an effective IP to the stiffness can be established and used for the prediction of stiffness. This research will contribute to development of timber buildings, which offers major environmental benefits and contributes to a sustainable society.
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