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Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing

Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the technology and utilization of coal water slurry, including its rheological behavior, combustion characteristics, stability improvement using surfactants, environmental impact, utilization of petrochemicals, microwave irradiation for property enhancement, and waste material utilization for energy efficiency.

  • Coal Water Slurry
  • Rheology
  • Combustion
  • Stability
  • Surfactants
  • Environmental Impact
  • Petrochemicals
  • Microwave Irradiation
  • Waste Utilization
  • Energy Efficiency
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing

Which countries lead Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing research?

By volume, China and Russia publish the most (927 and 657 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 927 works
  2. 2 Russia 657 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 172 works
  4. 4 India 162 works
  5. 5 United States 152 works
  6. 6 Uzbekistan 101 works
  7. 7 Poland 91 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 70 works
  9. 9 Kazakhstan 54 works
  10. 10 Japan 48 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 38.1%Russia: 27.0%Ukraine: 7.0%India: 6.7%6 others listed: 21.2%38%largest
China927 · 38.1%Russia657 · 27.0%Ukraine172 · 7.0%India162 · 6.7%6 others listed516 · 21.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing research, followed by China University of Mining and Technology and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 132 works
  2. 2 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 44 works
  3. 3 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 44 works
  4. 4 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 38 works
  5. 5 National Research Tomsk State UniversityRussia 35 works
  6. 6 Tashkent State Technical University named after Islam KarimovUzbekistan 28 works
  7. 7 Tomsk Polytechnic UniversityRussia 28 works
  8. 8 Moscow Power Engineering InstituteRussia 27 works
  9. 9 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 24 works
  10. 10 Taiyuan University of TechnologyChina 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing include Guangming Zeng, Hua Zhang and Yadong Li.

  1. 1 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  2. 2 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  3. 3 Yadong Li China 155k citations
  4. 4 Huan Liu Australia 148k citations
  5. 5 Jing Li United States 120k citations
  6. 6 Hao Chen China 118k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing?

The most cited paper in Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing is "A Universally Applicable Equation for the Instantaneous Heat Transfer Coefficient in the Internal Combustion Engine" (Gerhard Woschni, 1967), with 2,356 citations. Next come "The forms of alkalis in the biochar produced from crop residues at different temperatures" (2,021) and "Review of biomass pyrolysis oil properties and upgrading research" (1,467).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Universally Applicable Equation for the Instantaneous Heat Transfer Coefficient in the Internal Combustion Engine Gerhard Woschni · SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series Conference paper Feb 1967 2,356
2 The forms of alkalis in the biochar produced from crop residues at different temperatures Jin-Hua Yuan, Ren‐kou Xu, Zhang Hong · Bioresource Technology 13 Nov 2010 2,021
3 Review of biomass pyrolysis oil properties and upgrading research Qi Zhang, Jie Yun Chang, Tiejun Wang et al. · Energy Conversion and Management 23 Jun 2006 1,467
4 A study of erosion phenomena part I J. G. A. Bitter · Wear 1963 1,353
5 Process and technological aspects of municipal solid waste gasification. A review Umberto Arena · Waste Management 29 Oct 2011 1,343
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing research done?

The largest centres of Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China), Xi'an (China) and Tomsk (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tomsk.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 173 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 165 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 83 works
  4. 4 TomskRussia 72 works
  5. 5 KyivUkraine 63 works
  6. 6 TashkentUzbekistan 62 works
  7. 7 NovosibirskRussia 49 works
  8. 8 XuzhouChina 46 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 44 works
  10. 10 Saint PetersburgRussia 40 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TomskRU · 71.6 works49×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing?

Among universities, judged by research, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Tashkent State Technical University named after Islam Karimov and China University of Mining and Technology score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 87.426.3%8.2×38 +72.2%
2Tashkent State Technical University named after Islam KarimovUzbekistan 84.828.6%138.6×28 +56.7%
3China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 83.527.4%21.3×44 +35.3%
4Taiyuan University of TechnologyChina 72.024.4%18.7×20 +102.4%
5Shandong University of Science and TechnologyChina 68.732.2%9.2×12 +36.5%
6East China University of Science and TechnologyChina 63.916.4%12.5×16 +22.7%
7Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 61.723.8%3.4×16 +162.7%
8Zhejiang UniversityChina 59.826.1%2.1×15 +30.8%
9Ningxia UniversityChina 59.023.8%16.8×9 +63.6%
10Xi'an University of Science and TechnologyChina 57.722.6%21.3×13 +260.9%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing, country by country

Is Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing10.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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