Review on herbal tea as a functional food:classification,active compounds,biological activity,and industrial status

Most herbal tea infusions use edible medicinal plants as raw material and are consumed daily.Although herbal tea has a long history of health care applications worldwide,there is a lack of systematic research on the classification and functional nutritional value of various herbal teas.In recent years,the discovery of the rich biological activities and health benefits of herbal tea has become a driving force for researchers interested in its development as a functional food.However,the shortcomings of herbal tea products are not fully known.In particular,the quality evaluation system is not perfect,and there is insufficient data on the mechanism of action of herbal teas in their traditional uses.To better understand the functions and mechanisms of various herbal teas,this article reviews the classification,effective chemical composition,main biological activities,and mechanism of action of herbal teas.Finally,the current advantages,limitations,and direction of future development of herbal tea are determined and discussed.

Current Status and Development Trends of Chinese Intelligent Furniture Industry

In this work,the current status,technical capabilities,and development trends of the Chinese intelligent furniture industry were in focus.Based on combining a literature review with field investigations and analysis of major scientific research projects in Zhejiang Province,China,an in-depth overview and discussion about previous experience,features,technologies,products and control methods in the intelligent furniture industry in China were conducted.The key technologies in current Chinese intelligent furniture industry include embedded systems,sensors,short-range wireless communication,artificial intelligence and intelligent interaction techniques.This work also mentions the challenges and opportunities for the industry,pointing out how to innovate and dominate the furniture market in the era of transformation from the traditional furniture industry to intelligent upgrading.The results are proposed to help readers from all over the world to understand the development trend and progress of the Chinese intelligent furniture industry.

The status and development strategy of coalbed methane industry in China

To achieve the goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality under the backgrounds of poor resource endowments, weak theoretical basis and other factors, the development of the coalbed methane industry of China faces many bottlenecks and challenges. This paper systematically analyzes the coalbed methane resources, key technologies and progress, exploration effect and production performance in China and abroad. The main problems are summarized as low exploration degree, low technical adaptability, low return on investment and small development scale. This study suggests that the coalbed methane industry in China should follow the “two-step”(short-term and long-term) development strategy. The short-term action before 2030, can be divided into two stages:(1) From the present to 2025, to achieve new breakthroughs in theory and technology, and accomplish the target of annual production of 10 billion cubic meters;(2) From 2025 to 2030, to form the technologies suitable for most geological conditions, further expand the industry scale, and achieve an annual output of 30 billion cubic meters, improving the proportion of coalbed methane in the total natural gas production. The long-term action after 2030 is to gradually realize an annual production of 100 billion cubic meters. The strategic countermeasure to achieve the above goals is to adhere to “technology+management dual wheel drive”, realize the synchronous progress of technology and management, and promote the high-quality development of the coalbed methane industry. Technically, the efforts will focus on fine and effective development of coalbed methane in the medium to shallow layers of mature fields, effective development of coalbed methane in new fields, extensive and beneficial development of deep coalbed methane, three-dimensional comingled development of coalbed methane, applying new technologies such as coalbed methane displacement by carbon dioxide, microwave heating and stimulation technology, ultrasonic stimulation, high-temperature heat injection stimulation, rock breaking by high-energy laser. In terms of management, the efforts will focus on coordinative innovation of resource, technology, talent, policy and investment, with technological innovation as the core, to realize an all-round and integrated management and promote the development of coalbed methane industry at a high level.

Production and Running Status of China's Refractories and Main Downstream Industries in 2013

1 Production and Running Status of China＇s Refractories Industry in 2013 1.1 Refractories Output In 2013, China＇ s refractories output was 29. 283 million tons increasing by 3.88% YOY; in which the outputs of dense shaped refractory products, insulating refractory products, monolithic refractories were 17.307 million tons increasing by 5.93% YOY, 557.3 thousand tons decreasing by 2.67% YOY and 11. 418 million tons increasing by 1.24% YOY, respectively.

Status and Development of Foundry Industry in Liaoning Province of China

1 General situation The Liaoning province is famous for the machine building industry and the iron-steel industry in China. The foundry industry also has fully been developed in Liaoning. There are about 3 000 foundries and (1.1-1.2) ×105 employees in Liaoning’s foundry industry and the total yield of castings is 2.4 million tons. Foundry plants mainly concentrate in Dalian, Shenyang, Dandong, Anshan, Chaoyang, Fushun, Benxi and other places. The industry enterprises of Liaoning take state-run system as main body. In the process of converting from the plan economy to the market economy, a lot of contradiction has been appearing continuously, which makes the structure of enterprises to occur great changes, at the same time the product’s structure is renewed quickly, and the mode of the foundry production and the types of the castings have also been adjusting. For the foundry enterprises, it will be a huge challenges to face the rigorous situation of sudden change in market. Since the reform and opening in China more than 20 years ago, great changes have occurred in Liaoning’s foundry industry whether in the yield and varieties of castings or production processes, equipment level, people’s quality consciousness and manage character aspect. The foundry industry has entered into a period of very good development and has been recongnized by more and more customers.

Development Status and Outlook of LNG Industry in China

Outlook of LNG resources i mport and terminal construction in China Supply potential of different natural gas resources in China Natural gas resources in China consist of domestic conventional natural gas,unconventional shale gas,coalbed methane(CBM)and coal gas,imported pipeline gas and LNG.Based on the"12th Five-Year Development Plan for Natural Gas,CBM,and Shale Gas",combined with the resources potential of the"13th Five-Year Plan",the authors analyzed the supply potential of different resources as follows.

Production and Running Status of China's Refractories and Main Downstream Industries in 2012

1 Production and Running Status of China＇s Refractories Industry in 20121.1 Refractories Output In 2012 China＇ s refractories output was 28. 189 million tons decreasing by 4.43% YOY： in which the outpt, ts of （lense shaped refractory products, insulating refractory products,

Present Status of China's Coal Industry

Coal is China’s principal source ofenergy, accounting for about 75percent of primary energy. This patternwill remain unchanged for a long period oftime from now on. Thanks to the effortsmade during the Eighth Five-Year Plan period,the general situation for the coal industry isnow good.

Status quo of textile industry

China’s economic status of textile industry is basically normal in 2016,with stable growth in production and marketing,benefit and other indicators,as well as a narrower fall on export,but on the whole,the textile industry still faces serious external situation,where market demand is sluggish;comprehensive cost continues to rise;international competition is increasing,causing industrial development more difficult.The main operating characteristics are as follows:

Status quo of textile industry in the first half of 2016

China’s textile industry,in spite of grim external situation with heavy cos burden and sluggish market basically maintained stable,by means of transformation&upgrading and structural reform of the supply front in the first half Of 2016.Industrial profits According to the National Bureau of statistics,industrial added value of above-scale textile industry increased by 6.5%year on year,

THE PRESENT STATUS AND PROSPECTS OF S&T DEVELOP-MENT IN PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY IN CHINA

Ⅰ. GENERAL SITUATION The petrochemical industry is a technology and capital-intensive industry. The United States took the lead in the development of the petrochemical industry and started launching petrochemical projects in the 1930s and 1940s. The petrochemical industry in other developed countries, such as Germany, the United kingdom, France, Italy and Japan, began their development in the 1960s and 1970s.The petrochemical industry in these countries has played

Status quo of textile and apparel industry in the first half of 2016

From January to June of 2016,the mainly monitored 42 markets saw a total turnover of 430.386 billion yuan,an increase of 6.16%year on year.The middle area became hot spot for the investment of the new textile and apparel wholesale markets,with completed investment of 10billion yuan.According to the statistics of China Commercial Circulation Association of Textile and Apparel(CATA),the mainly monitored 42 markets saw

Status quo of China's home textile industry, Jan.-Oct., 2017

In January-October,2017,China’s home textile industry as a whole continued to maintain a steady growth;investor confidence in the industry was further enhanced;and the growth rate of investment in fixed assets of all sub-sectors achieved positive growth.

Supercritical water oxidation for the destruction of toxic organic wastewaters:A review

The destruction of toxic organic wastewaters from munitions demilitarization and complex industrial chemical clearly becomes an overwhelming problem if left to conventional treatment processes. Two options, incineration and supercritical water oxidation （SCWO）, exist for the complete destruction of toxic organic wastewaters. Incinerator has associated problems such as very high cost and public resentment; on the other hand, SCWO has proved to be a very promising method for the treatment of many different wastewaters with extremely efficient organic waste destruction 99.99% with none of the emissions associated with incineration. In this review, the concepts of SCWO, result and present perspectives of application, and industrial status of SCWO are critically examined and discussed.

STATUS AND ANALYSIS OF AUTO INSTRUMENT INDUSTRY IN CHINA

Ⅰ. Status of Auto Instrument Industry in China Begun in the year of 1951, China’s auto instrument manufacturing industry has a long history of more than 40 years. Now, it hms an annual production capacity of 2 million sets, and an employee of more than 10 thousand

我国健康建筑的评价实践与思考

In January 2017,the Assessment Standard for Healthy Building(T/ASC 02-2016)was published.The issue and application of this standard indicates that healthy buildings have developed from labs to field in China.Based on it,the concept of healthy buildings has been gradually implemented in the construction industry and has achieved preliminary results.This paper conducted statistical analysis on the healthy indexes level from 48 certificated projects and quantitatively demonstrated the practical effect of health building projects in China.At the same time,through the analysis of the healthy measures for different types of projects,this study also made a statistical analysis for the operational difficulty of the provisions of the standard in practice,providing practical reference for the continuous updating and improvement of the health building standard and providing reference for the project construction and the manager’s strategy formulation.Specific conclusions are as follows:(1)The health effects of the health building projects are reflected in several aspects:The average annual concentrations of indoor PM2.5 and PM10 are 14.8 and 23.9μg/m^3,respectively;the indoor average annual concentrations of formaldehyde and TVOC are 0.043 and 0.228 mg/m^3,respectively;68.8%of the total hardness of drinking water in the project is less than 150 mg/L(calculated by CaCO3);85.4%of the main functional rooms reached the thermal comfort level of ClassⅠ;the free fitness area takes 1.9%of the total area.(2)The higher the quality of the project is,the better the balance among the healthy elements is.In general,the score of items related to water takes 59%and 55%for comfort,which are significantly lower than that of air(82%),fitness(84%)and humanity(73%).However,the degree of practice completion is relatively low.It is suggested that the standard compilers should refer to the difficulty feedback of project practice in the process of standard revision.(3)According to the difficulty index value from low to high,the provisions are divided into 1-5 categories.Among them,9 provisions(6.2.15,8.2.4,6.2.4,8.2.3,8.2.9,6.2.6,7.2.6,7.2.4,6.2.14)have significant differences in the difficulty index between public construction and residential construction.(4)The non-participation rates of 6 provisions(5.2.3,6.2.4,6.2.15,6.2.16,7.2.6,8.2.8)were 64%,93%,64%,64%,77%and 84%,respectively.There are three types of reasons:Residential buildings do not participate in the evaluation,public buildings do not participate in the evaluation and projects without designated special space do not participate in the evaluation.Therefore,it is suggested that in the process of standard perfection,corresponding measures should be taken to improve the effective use rate of provisions.(5)In this paper,measure provisions in the standard are summarized into 16 technical measures,among which intelligent lighting technology,natural lighting technology and outdoor acoustic environment construction technology score rate are significantly lower.There are obvious differences in the selection of public buildings and residential buildings in terms of indoor acoustic environment control technology,natural lighting technology,fitness site design and child-friendly design.