Renewable energies in a public forest: Viability of possible plant technologies

In this paper, a feasibility study of several technologies for the electrical and thermal energy production, fed with forest residues, is provided. With the aim of identifying the best sustainable energy exploitation of the forest biomass, the work has been developed in the following three main steps: the energy consumption of a buildings complex; a technical and economic evaluation of different configuration plants, along with a sensitivity analysis of some key parameters of the biomass; an environmental assessment via LCA (Life Cycle Assessment).