GHG (Increasing greenhouse gas) emissions in China imposes enormous pressure on China’s government and society. The increasing GHG trend is primarily driven by the fast expansion of high energy-intensive sectors including the chemical industry. This study investigates energy consumption and...

Significant pressure from increasing CO2 emissions and energy consumption in China's industrialization process has highlighted a need to understand and mitigate the sources of these emissions. Ammonia production, as one of the most important fundamental industries in China, represents those...

A critical policy-making tool in Japan's economic growth has been strong government-driven ‘visions’ of technological economic development, formulated through joint work and open discussion with representatives and experts from a broad spectrum. Amidst the current economic uncertainty, Japan...

Motivated by the coincidence of unexpected property price inflation, credit expansion and low interest rate in the U.S. market prior to the 2007 crisis, this paper investigates the interactions among the boom-bust cycles in the sector of housing, credit and real activities using a non-linear...

Choice behaviour prediction is valuable for developing suitable customer segmentation and finding target customers in marketing management. Constructing good choice models for choice behaviour prediction usually requires a sufficient amount of customer data. However, there is only a small amount...

The use of non-food crops for bioethanol production represents an important trend for renewable energy in China. In this paper, a bioethanol agro-industrial system with distributed fermentation plants from sweet sorghum is presented. The system consists of the following processes: sweet sorghum...

An improved understanding of investment decisions on low-carbon technology will greatly facilitate assessing the effectiveness of carbon emissions mitigation policies. We use the example of implementing CCS (carbon capture and storage) within ICL (indirect coal liquefaction), a controversial...

ICL (Indirect coal liquefaction), an alternative fuel-supplying technology, has drawn much attention and caused considerable debate in China’s energy sector. The hurdles to its development include the high risk of investment into large-scale installations, the high CO2 emissions and water...

As a major contributor to productivity and employment in China, the petroleum refining industry consumes approximately 15% of industrial fuel oil and 10% of industrial coal. Given this energy-intensive characteristic, cost-effective investments for energy-efficient technologies may be a useful...