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Relative economic and GHG costs of chips and bales of Mxg for different scales of pelleting facilities.
| Throughput | Crop | Land area | Catchment |
Cost bales |
Cost chips |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gg y-1 | ha | % | km2 | miles | £ Mg-1 | kg CO2 eq. C Mg-1 | £ Mg-1 | kg CO2 eq. C Mg-1 | |
| Small scale pelletizing | 5 | 5,000 | 10 | 500 | 4.6 | £105.99 | 50 | £93.55 | 53 |
| Large scale pelleting | 1000 | 100,000 | 10 | 10000 | 20.6 | £61.58 | 19 | £49.98 | 22 |
