If
you are a user of wood residues or a firm interested in transporting
residues, you may find WTRANS useful. Wood residue users may use
WTRANS to find counties where residues are produced and the potential
cost of transporting these residues to their county (Transportation
Analysis Option). If you are a wood residue supplier, you may
find WTRANS useful for estimating transportation costs to a destination
point (Transportation Analysis Option). In addition, if you use
residues for generating energy, you may find the Wood for Energy
option very useful. It enables you to estimate your residue needs
based on your energy needs. While default values are provided
to run WTRANS, you may change many of the values in WTRANS to
match your firm's situation (Edit Residue Parameters and Edit
Transportation Parameters Options).
WTRANS
contains several options. These are Transportation Analysis, Edit
Transportation Parameters, Edit Residue Resources, and Wood for
Energy. A brief description of each of these options is provided
below:
Transportation
Analysis: This performs two types of analyses for costs of transporting
wood residues:
- a
statewide type analysis of transportation of residues to a particular
destination county and amounts of residues by county, and presents
the results on a Tennessee map, and
- a
county-to-county type analysis (residues in the origin county
and transportation costs to your county) and presents the results
in a message box.
Edit
Transportation Parameters: This option enables the transportation
parameters used in WTRANS to be adjusted. The transportation parameters
that can be adjusted include residue material properties, truck
weight and volume limits, and costs of operation.
Edit
Residue Parameters: This allows you to view and change permanently
the residue resource parameters for the whole state or by county.
This option has a dialog box interface and the residue resources
can be changed by user input through edit boxes.
Wood for Energy: This option enables potential users of wood residues
for energy to estimate their residue needs to obtain a given level
of BTU’s or kilowatt-hours. Once the amount of residues needed
is determined, the user then can enter the Transportation Analysis
section to examine where residues may be located and the costs
of transport to their county.
