With the critical worldwide energy shortage and global environment concern, lignocellulosic biomass is regarded as one of the potential renewable energy resources to substitute conventional fossil fuels. Among various thermo-chemical conversion technologies, gasification is now regarded as an...

The growth of power generation in China since the 1980s has been reviewed by analyzing the relationship between demand and supply of power, the increasing in installed capacity, and the variations in power-resource structure. Currently, the power generation from pulverized coal (PC) is dominant...