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Course title Forest Exploitation II
Course code MežZB020
Credit points (ECTS) 5
Total Hours in Course 135
Number of hours for lectures 32
Number of hours for seminars and practical classes 24
Number of hours for laboratory classes 0
Independent study hours 79
Date of course confirmation 12/03/2024
Responsible Unit Institute of Forest Management
 
Course developers
Mg. sc. ing., pasn. Māris Davidāns

Prior knowledge
MežZB019, Forest Exploitation I
Replaced course
MežZ3079 [GMEZ3081] Forest Exploitation II
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.(lecturer 1 h, pract.work 1 h)
2 Timber unloading and stockpiling in warehouses.(lecturer 1 h, pract.work 1 h)
3 Timber sorting and processing operations: shredding, splitting, peeling.(lecturer 1 h, pract.work 1 h)
4 Stacking and loading of timber into further vehicles (Test 1).(lecturer 1 h, pract.work 1 h)
5 Energy wood raw material preparation technology and tools.(lecturer 1 h, pract.work 1 h)
6 Uses of low-value and production residual wood.(lecturer 1 h, pract.work 1 h)
7 Determining the required number of workers and machines in felling works.(lecturer 1 h, pract.work 1 h)
8 Determination of Basic Technical, Technological and Economic Indicators of Logging (Test 2)(lecturer 1 h, pract.work 1 h)
9 Types of timber primary transport, conditions of their choice.(lecturer 1 h, pract.work 1 h)
10 Types of energy wood raw materials and preparation technology.(lecturer 1 h, pract.work 1 h)
11 Energy wood quality.(lecturer 1 h, pract.work 1 h)
12 Types of timber stacking and storage.(lecturer 1 h, pract.work 1 h)
13 Timber transport equipment and technology.(lecturer 1 h, pract.work 1 h)
14 Wood chemical processing technology.(lecturer 1 h, pract.work 1 h) 15 Green biomass use technology.(lecturer 1 h, pract.work 1 h) 16 Knowledge test - exam.
Requirements for awarding credit points
All planned tasks according to the course plan (see 1 to 8) must be completed within the time allotted for independent studies
Description of the organization and tasks of students’ independent work
All planned tasks according to the course plan (see 1 to 8) must be completed within the time allotted for independent studies
Criteria for Evaluating Learning Outcomes
The criterion is the percentage compliance with the 10-point grading scale. The assessment in any of the study results must not be less than 50% of 8 points, or it must be at least 4 points.
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.
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. Meža izmantošana Latvijā - vēsture , stāvoklis, perspektīvas. Sast. Z. Saliņš. Jelgava: Meža izmantošanas kat., 1999. 270 lpp.
Periodicals and other sources
1. Baltijas Koks, ISSN 1407-6667
2. Meža Avīze, ISSN 1407-6187 3. SkogForsk Results, ISSN 1103-622
Notes
The study course is included in the compulsory part of the MF academic education bachelor's study program "Forest Science".