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Industrial Gas Emission Control

Industrial Gas Emission Control is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 18k 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 removal of sulfur compounds, such as hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide, from various industrial processes including coal-fired power plants and biogas. The research covers a wide range of technologies including adsorption, oxidation, wet scrubbing, and catalytic processes using materials like activated carbons, metal-organic frameworks, and regenerative sorbents.

  • Flue Gas Desulfurization
  • Hydrogen Sulfide Adsorption
  • Sulfur Oxidation
  • Activated Carbon
  • Catalytic Oxidation
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks
  • Wet Scrubbing
  • NOx Removal
  • SO2 Absorption
  • Regenerative Sorbents
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+25%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
72% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Industrial Gas Emission Control

Which countries lead Industrial Gas Emission Control research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.1k and 193 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.1k works
  2. 2 United States 193 works
  3. 3 South Korea 130 works
  4. 4 India 104 works
  5. 5 Iran 84 works
  6. 6 Japan 82 works
  7. 7 Russia 68 works
  8. 8 France 54 works
  9. 9 Spain 53 works
  10. 10 Germany 50 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: 71.8%United States: 6.7%South Korea: 4.5%India: 3.6%6 others listed: 13.5%72%largest
China2,087 · 71.8%United States193 · 6.7%South Korea130 · 4.5%India104 · 3.6%6 others listed392 · 13.5%

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

Which institutions lead Industrial Gas Emission Control research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Industrial Gas Emission Control research, followed by Kunming University of Science and Technology and Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 87 works
  2. 2 Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 60 works
  3. 3 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 41 works
  4. 4 Taiyuan University of TechnologyChina 40 works
  5. 5 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 39 works
  6. 6 Zhejiang UniversityChina 39 works
  7. 7 Southeast UniversityChina 31 works
  8. 8 Sichuan UniversityChina 31 works
  9. 9 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 30 works
  10. 10 Tianjin UniversityChina 27 works

Who are the leading researchers in Industrial Gas Emission Control?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Industrial Gas Emission Control include Michaël Grätzel, Wei Huang and Jens K. Nørskov.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  2. 2 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  3. 3 Jens K. Nørskov Denmark 260k citations
  4. 4 Omar M. Yaghi United States 254k citations
  5. 5 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  6. 6 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  7. 7 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  8. 8 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  9. 9 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  10. 10 William A. Goddard United States 182k 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 Industrial Gas Emission Control?

The most cited paper in Industrial Gas Emission Control is "Activation of persulfate (PS) and peroxymonosulfate (PMS) and application for the degradation of emerging contaminants" (Jianlong Wang, Shizong Wang, 2017), with 4,118 citations. Next come "Generation of sulfate radical through heterogeneous catalysis for organic contaminants removal: Current development, challenges and prospects" (2,647) and "A Comparison of Chemisorption Kinetic Models Applied to Pollutant Removal on Various Sorbents" (2,509).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Activation of persulfate (PS) and peroxymonosulfate (PMS) and application for the degradation of emerging contaminants Jianlong Wang, Shizong Wang · Chemical Engineering Journal 20 Nov 2017 4,118
2 Generation of sulfate radical through heterogeneous catalysis for organic contaminants removal: Current development, challenges and prospects Wen‐Da Oh, Zhili Dong, Teik‐Thye Lim · Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 17 Apr 2016 2,647
3 A Comparison of Chemisorption Kinetic Models Applied to Pollutant Removal on Various Sorbents Yuh‐Shan Ho, Gordon McKay · Process Safety and Environmental Protection Nov 1998 2,509
4 Recent Advances in the Catalytic Oxidation of Volatile Organic Compounds: A Review Based on Pollutant Sorts and Sources Chi Quan He, Jie Cheng, Xin Zhang et al. · Chemical Reviews Review 27 Feb 2019 2,277
5 Progress in Chemical-Looping Combustion and Reforming technologies Juan Adánez, Alberto Abad, Francisco Garcı́a-Labiano et al. · Progress in Energy and Combustion Science 10 Nov 2011 2,236
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Where is Industrial Gas Emission Control research done?

The largest centres of Industrial Gas Emission Control research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Taiyuan and Kunming.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 368 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 126 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 126 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 96 works
  5. 5 KunmingChina 79 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 79 works
  7. 7 TaiyuanChina 73 works
  8. 8 Xi'anChina 70 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 69 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 67 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TaiyuanCN · 73.4 works12×
  2. KunmingCN · 78.6 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Industrial Gas Emission Control than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Industrial Gas Emission Control?

Among universities, judged by research, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology and Southeast University 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.

0%10%20%30%mean 15.55%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Jiangsu UniversityHuazhong University …Kunming University o…Southeast University
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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
1Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 63.815.5%7.1×41 +10.7%
2Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 60.410.2%33.6×60 +76.2%
3Southeast UniversityChina 56.810.1%6.7×32 +17.8%
4Jiangsu UniversityChina 56.721.9%7.2×18 -20.1%
5Chongqing UniversityChina 56.220.2%6.0×21 +10.5%
6Taiyuan University of TechnologyChina 55.59.4%30.7×40 +63.9%
7Zhejiang UniversityChina 55.510.4%4.6×39 +7.9%
8Shanghai UniversityChina 55.416.7%7.8×18 +350.4%
9Hunan UniversityChina 52.727.3%4.6×10 -17.2%
10Tianjin UniversityChina 52.313.8%7.0×27 +11.7%

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 Industrial Gas Emission Control, country by country

Is Industrial Gas Emission Control research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Industrial Gas Emission Control.

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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 Industrial Gas Emission Control as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Industrial Gas Emission Control 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.

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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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