20.500.12556/ReVIS-11603 Life cycle assessment of using firewood and wood pellets in Slovenia as two primary wood-based heating systems and their environmental impact Sustainable use of biomass energy sources can reduce dependency on fossil fuels. Wood biomass is the primary source for heating in Slovenia, with firewood and wood pellets having the highest share. Slovenia’s largest consumers of wood fuels are households primarily using wood from their forests or imported wood pellets. This research used a life cycle assessment to analyze and evaluate the environmental impacts of using firewood and wood pellets for household heating in Slovenia for the first time. The results showed that wood logs have a considerably greater effect on stratospheric ozone depletion, ozone formation, and fine particulate matter (PM) formation. The impact on global warming was lower due to short transportation distances and using log boilers with high combustion efficiency (0.016 and 0.041 kg CO2 eq for wood log and wood pellet combustion, respectively). An increase in transportation distance from 100 km to 1000 km resulted in an 84.9% increase in the values for the categories ozone formation and human health, a 120.4% increase for fossil resource scarcity, and a 102.4% increase in global warming, supporting the premise that short distribution routes are necessary for more sustainable use of the energy source. firewood wood pellets life cycle assessment sustainable energy use Slovenian heating systems drva leseni peleti ocena življenskega cikla trajnostna raba energije slovenski ogrevalni sistemi true true false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2025-04-14 14:49:47 2025-04-14 14:49:47 2025-04-24 16:16:30 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2024 0 0 Soavtorji: Urška Fric, Ante Čikić and Simon Muhič; Nasl. z nasl. zaslona; Opis vira z dne 23. 2. 2024; Številka članka: 1687; str. 1-14 iss. 4 Vol. 16 2024 0000-00-00 NiDoloceno NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2024-01-01 662.6:502.131.1 2071-1050 186626819 10.3390/su16041687 sustainability-16-01687-v2.pdf sustainability-16-01687-v2.pdf 1 79BF643D46BD8A711C00E5B863718343 2260c8d867b17a09815a700a9faaece913782d5abba729e9f6c011ffd277f51d 312a17d3-192f-11f0-963a-001a4af901a5 https://revis.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=13365 Fakulteta za informacijske študije v Novem mestu 0 0 0