Context

The Innovative Silo for the Supply of Wood Chips (SISE) is an innovative concept with significant potential to disrupt the marketing of biomass and optimise consumption for a wide range of customers and buildings. SISE will offer biomass producers, distributors and consumers a new product to use biomass for heating systems. This project targets all areas related to climate action, the environment, resource efficiency and raw material optimisation, in addition to the circular economy, nature-based solutions, climate services, and sustainable raw material supplies, in accordance with the work lines set lines by the Europe Union.

The pilot silo (SISE) will have the capacity for roughly 240 m3 of forest wood chips, which is the volume normally used for large and medium-sized automatic biomass boilers, and will be located in an area where major biomass consumption has been detected or is expected to be detected. The silo will have a loading system with the capacity to receive two 90-m3 moving floor trailers, which will transport the wood chips from the Celrà production centre to the geographical distribution area. Additionally, there will be an unloading system to supply the wood chips to small trucks with a capacity of 20 to 40 m3, which will distribute the wood chips at the retail level. The silo will be fully automated, which means that the control and weighing of the loaded and unloaded wood chips will be automatic and controlled by the production centre at Celrà, regardless of where the silo is located.

The expected results are the improvement of the company’s competitiveness, the improvement and optimisation of biofuel logistics in the region and a better guarantee that the end customer will be supplied, consequently optimising the resources involved.