The boal of the study is to optimize the transport costs of peat and compressed peat products by using the most effective and advantageous transport technique and method. The low volume weight of milled peat hampers the development of an efficient and economic transport chain. Another factor raising the transport costs is the limited annual use of the transport equipment and its poor suitability for other use. With the present technique transport costs constitute about 25-40% of the average plant price of fuel peat; with other liquid fuels they are below 20%. In transport of sod peat the same transport equipment is used as with milled peat. The greatest disadvantages of railway transport is the great distance between the production sites and the loading place, which generally has to be covered either with tractor or lorries. This delays the circulation of peat wagons decreasing the annual use of the lorries and increasing the transport costs. The use of waterway routes for the transport of peat and processed peat is now too expensive, primarily due to the short navigation season, shortages in the fairway net, and the location of the sites of production and use with regard to the fairway net. With effective optimation of transport technology and different methods we can decrease the transport costs of peat and compressed peat products considerably. If the transport equipment in addition could be used for so called back hauls, whereat we could reach the so called TO-FRO-transports and vehicle mileage throughout the year, the transport costs could be reduced considerably. (ERA citation 10:033143)


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    Title :

    Transport of Peat and Compressed Peat Products


    Contributors:
    H. Niittylae (author) / H. Kaipainen (author) / L. Nikala (author)

    Publication date :

    1984


    Size :

    96 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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