State Key Laboratory of coal combustion, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, is located in the coast of Wuhan, East Lake. State Key Laboratory of coal combustion was founded in May 1988, in June 1991 through the national acceptance and officially opened to the outside world. In March 1997, the laboratory successfully passed the National Assessment Laboratory since the formal establishment, undertake a series of national and provincial level, the major focus of scientific research projects, training a large number of high level and high quality talents for the country, has played an important role in the study of China coal combustion field, is Chinese in one of the theory and Technology Study on coal combustion research base on the highest level.

State Key Laboratory of coal combustion is mainly engaged in high efficiency and low pollution combustion theory and technology. The research topic is based on the needs of national economic development, closely combined with China's national conditions and the key issues to be solved in the development of national economy. At the same time, take advantage of their own advantages, aiming at the international advanced level, adjust the research direction and make the strategic development plan in time, so that the laboratory research work has always been in a high position. The main research directions include:

The application of basic theory research of coal combustion, including coal pyrolysis and ignition characteristics, coal combustion kinetics, boiler stable combustion mechanism of coal combustion, in the process of mathematical modeling and numerical simulation of coal combustion, pollutant generation mechanism and control, high efficiency and low pollution combustion fluidized bed gas-solid flow characteristics and heat transfer characteristics large coal-fired power plant boiler combustion diagnosis and optimization expert system etc..

Research and application of technology development to bluff body stabilized combustion model of coal based combustion technology of coal combustion, such as burner with stable cavity and separating the pulverized coal burner, in order to improve the regulating ability of low load operation of coal power plant boiler burning; two stage combustion model development and application of high temperature flue gas boiling furnace in order to improve the utilization of waste heat, the rate of development of coal; circulating fluidized bed boiler with independent intellectual property rights, the development of combustion technology of pollution control of boiler with low cost and suitable for China's national conditions; the development of power plant thermal process control system, the development of advanced combustion technology and combustion diagnosis technology, to improve the safety of boiler operation and economy etc..

The laboratory academic committee director Cen Kefa academician, Professor Zheng Chuguang served as director of the laboratory. The laboratory has 6 permanent staff, including Professor of the 11 (including doctoral tutor, a total of 9), associate professor and senior engineer, lecturer, teaching assistants and professional and technical personnel of the 12, a total of 29. Outside the unit in the laboratory engaged in the study of about 41 people. With the master's degree, the right to confer doctoral degrees, with post doctoral mobile station, currently in the master's and doctoral students nearly 150.

State Key Laboratory of coal combustion has nearly more than and 20 sets of measuring instruments and equipment, all kinds of cold and hot state experimental bench. Can the multiphase flow of single-phase flow, flow field test, can also carry out coal (or other material) of industrial analysis, elemental analysis, thermal analysis, analysis of trace metal elements, ash melting point (or non-metallic element) analysis, component analysis and gas component analysis etc..

Since 1991, the State Key Laboratory of coal combustion has undertaken a number of national, provincial and ministerial level scientific research projects. 95 assumed during the period of the 973 Plan, the state plan for the project, the national key projects, as well as the National Natural Science Foundation of 24, the provincial and ministerial level of major scientific research projects of 47, science and technology development and application of more than 863 research projects of more than 200. Provincial and ministerial level scientific and technological progress award 14, won the national invention patent 2. State Key Laboratory of coal combustion is not only a scientific research base, but also an academic exchange and high-quality personnel training base. Since 1997, through the evaluation of the laboratory, a total of 38 doctoral students, master's degree,, postdoctoral 4. There are 32 doctoral students, master's degree in the first place, in the post doctoral research in the 4 place in the 107. Held a number of international and domestic academic exchanges, and with France, Australia has a long-term cooperative relationship.

The state has a clear positioning and level requirements for the National Laboratory, namely "key laboratory must be positioned in basic research and the national laboratory construction into first-class, internationally influential national basic research team". Based on these requirements, the laboratory has always been the basic application research is put in the primary position of the scientific research work, and pay special attention to the frontier research activities in science, has achieved some positive results with the international advanced level. After several years of construction and development, the laboratory has made remarkable achievements in the following two aspects, and has been fully affirmed by peer experts:

(1) the basic research work is very active, and it has carried out fruitful work in many fields of coal combustion science;

(2) the rapid growth of scientific research personnel, has formed a strong academic active thinking, innovative spirit, independent undertaking and presided over important projects and large task ability of young and middle-aged academic backbone team leader.

The laboratory in 1996 by the international authoritative scholar Professor L. D. Smoot of the field has an important influence included in 16 of the world's coal combustion research bases, in the review of important international academic journals Progress in Energy and Combustion Science wrote about.