Current Status of Biomass Energy Utilization

Utilization of forest derived biomass for energy production in the U.S.A.: status, challenges, and public policies

Current status of prospective drug utilization review.

BACKGROUND The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 offered the promise that prospective drug utilization review (pDUR) systems would improve the quality of drug prescribing and patient drug use. There is little evidence that this promise has been fulfilled. To the contrary, there is growing evidence that suboptimal use of drugs (in terms of preventable drug-related morbidity) is at least ...

Process Integration to Increase Woody Biomass Utilization for Energy Purposes

Woody biomass is an abundant renewable energy resource in Sweden, and the Swedish government has been promoting research and development programs for the exploitation of this resource as a means to meet the targets on the reduction of the carbon dioxide emissions from the industrial, energy and transportation sectors. This thesis aims at expanding the knowledge on the efficient utilization of t...

Current Status and Prospect of Fly Ash Utilization in China

： About 500 million tons (Mt) fly ash produces from coal-fired power stations every year in China, which causes severe economic and environmental problems. In this paper, current status and prospect of fly ash utilization in China was introduced in detail. China is a huge country which has many different geographical environments and various level of economic development. So, the level and meth...

Bioenergy and Biomass Utilization

1School of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China 2College of Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China 3Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2032, USA 4State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 1...