Estado atual da indústria de pellets do brasil: uma abordagem exploratória com ênfase nas estratégias de operações

Abstract

The proportion that sustainability and environmental themes have been taking in recent years led researchers and entrepreneurs to take their time to reduce environmental impacts. It seeks to find solutions and alternatives to minimize the effects that the human needs of consumption cause in the environment. The wood pellet comes as a solution for emission reductions. It consists of dry and pressed wood waste, which causes it to have a high calorific value and energy density. It leaves few residues when burned and emits little CO2 in the atmosphere. It has become increasingly relevant in the energy matrix of European countries, as well as in the United States, Canada and some Asian countries. This can be proven by the growing demand for pellets in these countries. Other nations have pledged to reduce pollutants when they signed the Paris Agreement at COP-21. Among them is also Brazil. Despite the constant struggle on the search for clean and renewable energy sources and the growing demand for pellets in the world, the Brazilian pellet industry has not achieved a good development and has been productive idleness. This work identified the current state of these industries, based on manufacturing operations strategies. The parameters of quality, cost, production capacity and location were used to carry out the analysis. A correlation between these parameters was also analyzed, confirming, with a numerical statistical method, the previous empirically established relationships. In this way an overview of the current state of this Brazilian industrial branch was inferred.