Has coal use peaked in China: Near-term trends in China's coal consumption

Lin, Jiang; Fridley, David; Lu, Hongyou; Price, Lynn; Zhou, Nan

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2018.08.058

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“…Several studies have discussed peak coal use in China and have reached different conclusions as to the likely year that demand will peak or has peaked. The IEA (2016) holds that China's coal consumption peaked in 2013, ERI (2015) forecasted it would peak before 2020, and Lin et al (2018) estimated that coal use would continue to grow at least until 2020. However, there is widespread agreement that coal consumption in China will plateau after 2020, even if some studies still predict demand fluctuations.…”

Section: Energy Revolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impacts of Industrialization on Freight Movement in China

Chen¹,

Bhatt²

2019

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China could reduce the volume of its freight transport by transforming its process of industrialization through coordinated urban planning, using new materials, developing its high-tech industries and expanding the share of the service sector in its economy. This paper finds that these measures could result in a reduction of 2.6 trillion tonne-kilometer of freight transport, 6% lower than the business-asusual model of urban and industrial development. Changes to the country's economic structure may also lead to structural changes in modes of transportation, such as an increased share for railroads, the growing use of automotive transportation, and the increased use of containers in China's integrated freight transport system. A change in the structure of the Chinese economy could trigger further investment in railway networks and improvements to internal waterways. This could lead to an increased share of rail in freight traffic. The increased requirement for doorto-door delivery may also increase the use of short-distance automotive transport. Improved connectivity between railways, waterways and highways will increase the use of container transportation for higher value-added industrial products and consumer goods.

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Section: Energy Revolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impacts of Industrialization on Freight Movement in China

Chen¹,

Bhatt²

2019

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“…However, non-fossil fuels, still make up a relatively low share of China's primary energy consumption due to energy efficiency and economic problems. For instance, coal remains China's top source for electricity and will continue to rise in the short term, despite the fact that many industries are slowly phasing out coal in favor of other fossil fuels, such as natural gas [7,8]. The IEA (International Energy Agency) report deduced that in the year 2022, coal consumption will still account for approximately 55% of China's energy resource consumption [9].…”

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Spatial Characteristic of Coal Production-Based Carbon Emissions in Chinese Mining Cities

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The objective of this paper is to investigate CO2 emissions in the production of coal sources at the prefecture level and to analyze their spatial distribution and regional differences based on the spatial autocorrelation and standard deviational ellipse analysis. The results indicate that Chinese coal production from 2018 will most likely generate 485.23 million tons of CO2 emissions, and there still exists an obvious gap between the five coal development districts in terms of their CO2 emissions. A significant clustering pattern and positive spatial autocorrelation are revealed in the coal production-based carbon emissions in China. In addition, the spatial pattern of coal production-based CO2 emissions has an obvious central tendency and directional trend, and the ellipse direction is quite consistent with the Aihui–Tengchong Line. Our findings suggest that energy policy-makers should be concerned about the carbon emission effect when implementing regional coal development plans and actively guide the formation of a low-carbon spatial strategic pattern of coal production with a directional distribution of CO2 emissions perpendicular to the Aihui–Tengchong Line.

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“…(China statistical yearbook 2019) As the largest consumer of coal as well as the largest emitter of energy-related carbon dioxide(CO2), China has pledged internationally "to achieve the peaking of carbon dioxide emissions around 2030 and making best efforts to peak early". Hence, In the coming decades, Green coal Power with high efficiency and near-zero emission will become the new direction of coal power (Lin J 2018) IGFC is a new kind of power generation technology which combined coal gasification with fuel cell technique. Fuel cell owns extremely high energy density, which can transfer chemical energy of fuel to electrical energy directly, profit from that, the theoretical power efficiency of IGFC system can up to as high as 56%-58%.…”

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The effects of gasification technology on IGFC system efficiency

Jin

Guo³

et al. 2020

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As one of the significant part of IGFC (integrated gasification fuel cell) system, coal gasification technology has an important effect on system efficiency as well as technological process. To figure out what kind of gasifier technology could benefit IGFC system most, we select two representative gasifiers for comparison, which are E-Gas gasifier and Shell gasifier. In this study MW-level E-gas IGFC system and Shell IGFC system models are developed respectively, moreover, the energy analysis of two systems are carried out simultaneously. The results show that SOFC DC Power efficiency and system net plant efficiency of E-gas IGFC system are 52.82% and 50.89% , both higher than Shell IGFC system, which are 49.24% and 49.74%; under the same design conditions, gasifier with high content of CH 4 would be easier to obtain higher SOFC power efficiency as well as system net efficiency. The present work is helpful to provide gasifier selection suggestions for large-scale IGFC system.

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Has coal use peaked in China: Near-term trends in China's coal consumption

Cited by 93 publications

References 4 publications

The Impacts of Industrialization on Freight Movement in China

The Impacts of Industrialization on Freight Movement in China

Spatial Characteristic of Coal Production-Based Carbon Emissions in Chinese Mining Cities

The effects of gasification technology on IGFC system efficiency

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