Nurmi, Juha

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

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Expertise

• bioenergy
• wood properties and procurement
• wood quality

Research Projects

Current

• Forest Refine
  
• ForestPower
  
• Intensive production of woody biomass
  
• Smart forest biomass supply chains from forest to consumer including advanced logistic and quality control and fuel upgrading options
  

Former

• Energywood harvesting in forestry
  
• Field afforestation in EU-Finland
  
• Mechanization of cutting in changing forestry
  
• Recovery of logging residue for energy as part of forest management
  
• Regeneration of birch (Betula pubescens Ehrh.) stands in drained peatlands of Ostrobothnia
  
• Short rotation forestry
  
• Structure and properties of wood
  
• The yield and biomass balance of energy wood
  
• Yield effects and profitability of integrated energy and round wood harvesting in thinnings
  

Contacts

Keywords: bioenergy, field afforestation, wood procurement, wood quality