The economic crisis in Korea, which started as a financial or foreign exchange crisis at the end of 1997, is rapidly destroying the economic bases in real terms. It is expected that direct economic losses could exceed 25% of its annual GDP sooner or later. This would equal the damage experienced...

Biomass has emerged in the renewable energy area with high potential to contribute to the energy needs in both the industrialized and developing countries. The objective of this study is to evaluate and compare the economic feasibility of three different configurations of a woodchips power plant...

The effects of gasification temperature (TG) and steam to fuel ratio (γ) on product gas composition and yield were experimentally investigated for steam gasification of pine woodchips in a bench-scale circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) gasifier with external heat supplier. To evaluate process...