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woodchips
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Also known as wood chips, shredded wood, wood chip

thumb|Woodchips, with hand for scale 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.

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Material used
logs
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fabrication method
grinding
Commons category
Woodchips
product or material produced
solid fuel
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Encyclopedic overview

29 sections
Contents
  • Raw materials
  • Production
  • Pulp and paper industry
  • Methods of conveyance
  • Types of wood chippers
  • Disk
  • Drum
  • Screw-type
  • Applications
  • Wood pulp
  • Mulch
  • Playground surfacing
  • Barbecuing
  • Denitrifying woodchip bioreactor
  • Fuel
  • Waste and emissions
  • Automated handling of solid fuel
  • Comparison to other fuels
  • Environmental aspects
  • Waste processing
  • Forest fire prevention
  • Market products, supply and demand
  • United States
  • Canada
  • Europe
  • Japan
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

thumb|Woodchips, with hand for scale 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.

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

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “woodchips” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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