Northeast Forestry University in Harbin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, on Wednesday announced its successful creation of a system to transform straw and organic waste from forests into biofuel, news site thepaper.cn reported.
The technology can be applied to current large-scale industrialization.
Research into the process first began 18 years ago. Wang Shuyang, a professor at the university and leader of the project, established China's first on-campus biomass energy development research center in 1997 to invent high-tech equipment that can turn straw into clean biofuel.
The equipment can produce 200,000 tons of biofuel, biochar and thermal energy products each year, a vast increase over the 5,000-ton-capacity available 18 years ago.
