Carbon Sequestration by Harvested Wood products by Direct Inventory Method-A Case Study

Carbon Sequestration by Harvested Wood products by Direct Inventory Method-A Case Study | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Research Article Carbon Sequestration by Harvested Wood products by Direct Inventory Method-A Case Study Anubhab Pradhan, Shweta B Kukreti, Atul Kumar This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7438722/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract Wood products play important role to sequester the carbon other than soil and ocean. Therefore, the present study was done to estimate the contribution of wood products available in various buildings of a college campus to the carbon sequestration. Directory inventory method was used for estimating the volume of wood products in hostel, mess, sports equipment, library, class room etc. Total carbon present in these items was calculated by considering the type of material like solid wood, plywood, particle board and MDF. The non wood material such as steel and iron used in these premises were also considered for volume estimation to calculate the possible carbon sequestration if replaced by wood products. The study showed that total 6011.82 kg carbon can be sequestered in hostel building, 167.15 kg in mess units, 93.15 kg in sports units, 1151.09 kg in classroom units, 203.59 kg in lab units, 1689.19 kg in library units. The findings also indicated that 21530.64 kg more carbon can be sequestrated if the non-wood material replaced by wood products. The study indicated prominent role of small wood products in carbon capturing, which recommend the use of wood products in the building component and furniture especially in forest college campus. Carbon sequestration Direct Inventory method Density Furniture design. Wood Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. Our growing team is made up of researchers and industry professionals working together to solve the most critical problems facing scientific publishing. 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