Asikainen, Antti

D.Sc. (Agr. & For.), Professor

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Expertise

• forest technology
• technology of forestry and wood procurement
• logistics
• forest energy
• wood harvesting

Research Projects

Current

• 'REMOTE Renewable Energy Training and Demonstration Network for Remote Communities in the NPP Area
  
• Competitive Small Scale Forest Biomass Chains for District and House Heating - Opportunities for the Forest Biomass Sector in Finland and beyond
  
• Coordination of Forest Cluster Research Projects
  
• ForestEnergy2020
  
• Innovative and Effective Technology and Logistisc for Forest Residual Biomass Supply in the EU (INFRES)
  
• New logistic and technology innovations in wood procurement of forest industry
  
• Smart forest biomass supply chains from forest to consumer including advanced logistic and quality control and fuel upgrading options
  

Former

• Bioenergy from forests -research program co-ordination
  
• Corner stones of successful heat entrepreneurship
  
• Five European RES Heat Pilots (5EURES)
  
• Global forest energy resources, certification of supply and markets for energy technology
  
• Less is more
  
• Logistical models and applications in wood procurement
  
• Multidimensional sustainability framework to evaluate forest and wood energy production
  
• Partial debarking and natural drying in production of high quality fuel chips and fuel logs (DryMe)
  
• Technology and logistics of industrial and energy wood in Finland and in the EU.
  
• Technology, organising and logistics of plantation forestry
  
• The bottlenecks of forest chips supply chains
  
• The impacts of regional forest program
  
• Timber quality in single-grip harvester logging
  
• Wood energy resources and markets of energy technology in EU and international bioenergy trade
  
• Wood for energy -a contribution to the development of sustainable forest management
  
• Wood harvesting technology and wood procurement in Finland and in the EU
  

Contacts

Keywords: bioenergy, forest energy, forest machines, forest technology, wood harvesting