Government investment in R&D of key technologies

The key technology of biomass gasification research and development is usually based on the gov­ernment’s advanced investment, then the industry world and business world would follow-up and quickly realize the technology industrialization and commercialization. The Chinese government realized the issue “total risk, share results” by strengthening the public-sector research institutions and private sector cooperation and effectively led the development of the biomass gasification technology initiative. The Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Institute of Energy carried on the MW level biomass gasification power generation system research in the Ninth Five-Year Plan period, aiming at developing medium-size biomass gasification power generation technol­ogy for Chinese market demand and resource characteristics. Its power demonstration system was completed in October 1998 and put into use.

“Agricultural Biomass Industry Development Plan” introduced in 2007 submitted the recent focus on gasification technology: first, continue to expand the scope of straw gasification demon­stration and perfect the biogas technology of straw production. The second is to strengthen and standardize the operation and management of straw gasification stations. The third is to solve the problem of high tar content in the straw gasification fuel and improve the stability of the system. The planning also proposed that China would build 1000 straw gasification gas stations till 2015, and annual output gas straw would reach 365 million cubic meters.