Woodchips

Woodchips are small- to medium-sized pieces of wood formed by cutting or chipping larger pieces of wood such as trees, branches, logging residues, stumps, roots, and wood waste.^[1]^[2]

Woodchips may be used as a biomass solid fuel and are raw material for producing wood pulp.^[3] They may also be used as an organic mulch in gardening, landscaping, and ecosystem restoration; in bioreactors for denitrification;^[4] and as a substrate for mushroom cultivation.^[5]

The process of making woodchips is called wood chipping and is done using a wood chipper. The types of woodchips formed following chipping is dependent on the type of wood chipper used and the material from which they are made.^[6] Woodchip varieties include: forest chips (from forested areas), wood residue chips (from untreated wood residues, recycled wood and off-cuts), sawing residue chips (from sawmill residues), and short rotation forestry chips (from energy crops).^[6]

^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Energy Solutions, Hotel (February 2018). "Biomass - Wood Chips and Wood Pellets - Heating Systems" (PDF). Intelligent Energy Europe: 3.
^ GB, Forestry Commission. "Wood chips". www.forestry.gov.uk. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
^ Lopez-Ponnada, E. V.; Lynn, T. J.; Peterson, M.; Ergas, S. J.; Mihelcic, J. R. (2017-05-01). "Application of denitrifying wood chip bioreactors for management of residential non-point sources of nitrogen". Journal of Biological Engineering. 11: 16. doi:10.1186/s13036-017-0057-4. PMC 5410704. PMID 28469703.
^ Royse, Daniel J.; Sanchez-Vazquez, Jose E. (2001-02-01). "Influence of substrate wood-chip particle size on shiitake (Lentinula edodes) yield". Bioresource Technology. 76 (3): 229–233. doi:10.1016/S0960-8524(00)00110-3. ISSN 0960-8524. PMID 11198174.
^ ^a ^b GB, Forestry Commission. "Wood chips". www.forestry.gov.uk. Retrieved 2018-03-04.

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[2] Energy Solutions, Hotel (February 2018). "Biomass - Wood Chips and Wood Pellets - Heating Systems" (PDF). Intelligent Energy Europe: 3.

[3] GB, Forestry Commission. "Wood chips". www.forestry.gov.uk. Retrieved 2018-03-04.

[4] Lopez-Ponnada, E. V.; Lynn, T. J.; Peterson, M.; Ergas, S. J.; Mihelcic, J. R. (2017-05-01). "Application of denitrifying wood chip bioreactors for management of residential non-point sources of nitrogen". Journal of Biological Engineering. 11: 16. doi:10.1186/s13036-017-0057-4. PMC 5410704. PMID 28469703.

[5] Royse, Daniel J.; Sanchez-Vazquez, Jose E. (2001-02-01). "Influence of substrate wood-chip particle size on shiitake (Lentinula edodes) yield". Bioresource Technology. 76 (3): 229–233. doi:10.1016/S0960-8524(00)00110-3. ISSN 0960-8524. PMID 11198174.

[:3-6] GB, Forestry Commission. "Wood chips". www.forestry.gov.uk. Retrieved 2018-03-04.

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