| Course title | Forest Exploitation II |
| Course code | MežZ4014 |
| Credit points (ECTS) | 3 |
| Total Hours in Course | 81 |
| Number of hours for lectures | 16 |
| Number of hours for seminars and practical classes | 16 |
| Independent study hours | 49 |
| Date of course confirmation | 08/11/2011 |
| Responsible Unit | Institute of Forest Management |
| Course developers | |
| Dr. sc. ing., Aleksandrs Saveļjevs Dr. sc. ing., asoc. prof. (Emeritus) Ziedonis Sarmulis |
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| There is no prerequisite knowledge required for this course | |
| Course abstract | |
| The study course provides knowledge about timber landings and relevant operations, different technological variants for energy wood production, low-grade and residual wood utilization technology. During the course students are acquainted with indices of different aspects, useful for assessment of alternative variants. | |
| Learning outcomes and their assessment | |
| Students get knowledge about technology in stationary timber landings, energy wood industry, and for low-grade wood useful utilization. Skills how to make unbiased evaluation of technological variants are acquired. Gained competence is sufficient for decision making to choose appropriate development directions of forest management. | |
| Course Content(Calendar) | |
| 1.Classification and main indicators of timber warehouses. Lect.1 h, lab.d.1 h.
2 Timber unloading and stockpiling in warehouses. Lect.1 h, lab.d.1 h. 3 Timber sorting and processing operations: shredding, splitting, peeling. Lect.1 h, lab.d.1 h. 4 Stacking and loading of timber in further vehicles Lecc.1 h, lab.d.1 h. (Test 5). 5 Energy wood raw material preparation technology and tools. Lect.1 h, lab.d.1 h. 6 Uses of low-value and production residual wood. Lect.1 h, lab.d.1 h. 7 Determining the required number of workers and machines in felling works. Lect.1 h, lab.d.1 h. 8 Determination of basic technical, technological and economic indicators of logging (6.kontrold Lekc.1 h, lab.d.1 h. arbs). (8 weeks are planned for classroom classes in the 8th semester). |
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| Requirements for awarding credit points | |
| Must have successfully developed all practical papers (10% of the total grade), successfully written all tests (20% of the total grade), successfully passed the written exam (70% of the total grade). A successful examination grade can be obtained automatically if the grade of any practical work or test is not lower than 7 ("good"). | |
| Description of the organization and tasks of students’ independent work | |
| Study of literature. | |
| Criteria for Evaluating Learning Outcomes | |
| Must have successfully developed all practical papers (10% of the total grade), successfully written all tests (20% of the total grade), successfully passed the written exam (70% of the total grade). A successful examination grade can be obtained automatically if the grade of any practical work or test is not lower than 7 ("good"). | |
| Compulsory reading | |
| 1. Cars A. Energoresursi. Rīga: SIA Baltic Communication Partners, 2008. 102 lpp.
2. Vasiļevskis A. Vispārīgas ziņas par kokmateriālu pirmapstrādes ražotni. Jelgava: LLU, 2002. 36 lpp. 3. Enerģētisko šķeldu ražošana no mežizstrādes atlikumiem. Rīga: LVMI Silava, 2008. 16 lpp. 4. Saliņš Z. Mežs - Latvijas nacionālā bagātība. Jelgava: Autora izd., 2002. 248 lpp. |
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| Further reading | |
| 1. Vasiļevskis A. Kokmateriālu pirmapstrādes iecirkņa projekts: metod. norādījumi. Jelgava: LLU, 2001. 49 lpp.
2. Buongiorno J., Gilless J. K. Decision Methods for Forest Resource Management. Amsterdam [etc.]: Academic Press, 2003. 439 p. 3. Saliņš Z.Meža izmantošana Latvijā - vēsture , stāvoklis, perspektīvas. Jelgava: Meža izmantošanas kat., 1999. 270 lpp. |
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| Periodicals and other sources | |
| 1. Baltijas Koks, ISSN 1407-6667
2. Meža Avīze, ISSN 1407-6187 3. SkogForsk Results, ISSN 1103-6222 |
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