Taking Huang-Huai Plain as an example, evaluation index system is established from four aspects, including the resources condition, the social and economic condition, the agricultural science and technology condition, and the disaster resistant and sustainable production condition. Correlation...

Thermoelectric (TE) generator converts heat to electric energy by thermoelectric material. However, heat removal on the cold side of the generator represents a serious challenge. To address this problem and for improved energy conversion, a thermoelectric generation process coupled with methanol...

China is one of the largest energy consumers in the world. Excessive consumption of coal and other primary energy causes serious environmental pollution and energy crisis. China must wean from the over-reliance on coal and needs to make great efforts to develop clean and efficient renewable...

In recent years, wind power industry has been flourishing and in China the focus has been gradually shifted from land-based to offshore wind farms. There are many advantages for offshore wind farms, such as abundant wind energy reserves, high utilization of the wind turbine capacity, not taking...

Methanol reforming is considered as a promising candidate for hydrogen production because of its advantages in many ways. Conventional reformers of packed-bed catalyst suffer from severe limitations of mass and heat transfer. These disadvantages result in a low catalyst effectiveness factor in...

Lushi basin, named after the Lushi County, is one of the sub-basins of the Yellow River basin in China. The basin is suffering from severe soil erosion problems, especially during the “wet” season. In order to identify the proper soil management approaches for the basin, an erosion model is...