Thermal Power Generation is an important journal reporting power generation technologies in China and abroad, which has been acceppted by Core Journal in Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD), National Chinese Core Journals, China Science and Technology Core Journals (Statistical Source Journals of Chinese Scientific and Technological Papers) and RCCSE Chinese Core Academic Journals (A), it ranks T3 level of energy and power generation technology subject in the Graded Catalogue of High-Quality Scientific and Technological Journals of China Association for science and technology (an important journal in this discipline at home and abroad and recognized by the academic community). It is also acceppted by Chemical Abstracts (CA) and Japan Science and Technology Promotion Agency database (JST).

Thermal Power Generation has won the following awards: Hundred Outstanding Academic Journals in China (2019), The 5th China Excellent Science and Technology Journal (2020—2023), Key Journal of SANQIN Development Plan for Outstanding Science and Technology Journals, The 6th Excellent Science and Technology Journals Award of Shaanxi Province (2020), The 5th Excellent Science and Technology Journals Award of Shaanxi Province (2018), The 4th Excellent Science and Technology Journals Award of Shaanxi Province (2016), The 3rd Advanced Science and Technology Journals Award of Shaanxi Province (2014).

1. Discipline and scope

Papers focusing on conventional and renewable energy power generation technologies, energy storage technologies and energy saving technologies, emission reduction technologies, power station automatic control technologies and any new technologies involved in power generation process are welcome. In 2022, high quality papers related to the following subjects (include but not limited) will be given priority:

1) New power generation technologies, such as photovoltaic, solar thermal, wind energy, hydrogen energy and distributed energy;

2) Advanced power cycle technology, including supercritical carbon dioxide cycle power generation technology;

3) Clean, flexible and efficient power generation technology for thermal power plants;

4) Intelligent control and localization technology of power equipment;

5) Carbon dioxide capture, utilization and storage technology;

6) Construction of low-carbon energy system for carbon neutralization;

7) Energy storage technology and its typical application on the power side;

8) Sludge and biomass coupled power generation technology;

9) Development and new technology application of circulating fluidized bed boiler;

10) Energy Internet technology.

2. Submission instructions

Currently, online submission is the only way, e-mail submission is not accepted. The submission process is as follows.

1) Visite the website: https://rlfd.cbpt.cnki.net;

2) Click the “Author Center” at the upper left corner, input the existing account name and password to login, or click "Author Registration" to register a new account, and log in the account to enter the submission system after the registration is completed;

3) After entering the submission system, click "I want to contribute", and follow the prompts to upload the manuscript and relavant attachments including the Copyright Transfer Agreement  (click to download) with the authors' signature, blind-review version manuscript and other documents;

4) After submission, please wait patiently for the review result. The review period is generally 1~2 months. You can query the status of the manuscript in the submission system at any time. If necessary, you can contact the editorial office for communication and urging.

3. Copyright

The author should carefully read the Copyright Transfer Agreement (click to download) before submitting a manucript and upload a signed one when submitting. Once submitted, the journal assumes that the author is already familiar with the content of the Copyright Transfer Agreement and agreed to transfer the right of modification, reproduction, distribution, information network transmission, translation and compilation in the copyright of the article to Thermal Power Generation worldwide.

4. Manuscript requirements

The content of the manuscript should be scientific, creative and practical, with great theoretical guidance or practical reference significance. The language should be fluent and concise, the key points are supposed to be prominent, with clear arguments and reliable data. The tables and figures should be clear and the formulas be correct. The references have strong timeliness and representativeness.

1) Publication ethics

Authors submitting the manuscript should affirm the originality of the manuscript and ensure that the manuscript has not been submitted to other journals at the same time. Once submited, all papers will be tested for text copy ratio, papers with a text copy ratio of higher than 10% will be rejected. Other duties of authors please see the journal's Publication Ethics Statement. 

2) Confidentiality

All authors of the manuscript must ensure that the content of the article does not involve state secrets and politically sensitive information, as well as commercial secrets. If there are related problems, the author must be responsible for it. If neccesary, the author must submit the proof that the article has passed the confidential examination of the institution’s relevant department.

3) Manuscript format

Please accomplish the manuscript following the Submission Template of Thermal Power Generation. The length of manuscript is not limited, but at least 6 000 words is recommended.

4) Title

The article title is generally no more than 20 Chinese characters and 20 words in English, and should be concise and informative, and avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible. If the paper has a subhead, you can use ‘:’ to separate it from the main heading.

5) Authors

Please give accurate and correct authors' name and institutions (both in Chinese and in Engilish).

6) Abstract

The abstract writing should follow the principle of "purpose, method, result, conclusion", and be concise and informative with a length of about 300 characters in Chinese and 200~400 words in Engilish. Namely, the abstract should be self-contained and adequate as a summary of the article, it should indicate aim and significance, newly observed facts, conclusions, and the essential parts of any new theory, treatment, apparatus, technique, etc.

7) Key words

There should include 3~8 pieces of words that can exactly reflect the subject of the article, and the number/order of the English key words should be in accordance with that of the Chinese key words.

8) Funds

If the research is funded by relevant research funds (or projects), please give the fund (or project) name and approval number in footer of the first page.

9) Author Introduction

A brief introduction of the first author should be given in footer of the first page, including name (year of birth), gender, nationality, education (degree), professional ranks and titles, research direction, and e-mail address.

10) Engilish table and figure title

All tables and figures shown in the paper should be given English titles.

11) References

For each non English reference, the corresponding English information must be given in a separate line. Please use the original English text if there were.

The description format of the references should be in strict accordance with the Information and Documentation--Rules for Bibliographic References and Citations to Information Resources (GB/T 7714—2015).

5. Manuscript processing flow

6. Review period

Generally, the editorial department will inform the author whether the manuscript is accepted within 2 months since he/she submited it.

7. Publication period

Generally, the manuscript will be published within 6~8 months since the submission. Before official publication, it will be pre-published online (CNKI and the journal website) as soon as possible since it is accpeted and preliminarily edited.

8. Appeal

If the author has any objection to the review results, he/she can appeal to the editorial department. A complaint report shall be submitted, stating the reasons or explanations for the complaint.

After receiving the appeal, the editorial department should organize expert to verify the problem. Once the appeal is confirmed to be valid, a third-party review and arbitration of the manucript should be arranged as soon as possible.

9. Paper editing and publishing process

10. Paper download

Except regular databases, researchers can also download the papers published in Thermal Power Generation (from 2007 to present) on our website (the column "Journal online"------"Archive", https://rlfde.cbpt.cnki.net/WKA/WebPublication/wkList.aspx?columnID=2512de04-dddd-4c1a-96d5-2324d2462985, please click on the issue number instead of the picture) for free. For the papers published before the year 2007, the PDF documents can be downloaded on the following websites: http://qikan.cqvip.com/Qikan/Journal/Summary?kind=1&gch=92812X (fully open access), https://navi.cnki.net/knavi/journals/RLFD/detail?uniplatform=NZKPT&language=chs and https://sns.wanfangdata.com.cn/perio/rlfd. Besides, the editorial department will send 3~5 paper journals to the first author or the corresponding author of each article for free as soon as the new issue is published.

In addition, the website also provides the whole issue PDF documents (from 2007 to present) to readers for free. The download link: http://www.rlfd.cbpt.cnki.net/WKA/WebPublication/wkTextContent.aspx?contentID=4992a7b0-0e84-4be7-a95c-ebbb96d5befd

11. Fee

Thermal Power Generation only charges a publishing service fee for all accepted papers, and there are no other fees. The charging standards for the publishing service fee is 800, 1500, 2000 yuan/article, related to the length and property (overview or non-overview) of the article.

12. Other questions

For any other questions, please contact us (Tel: 029-82002270; E-mail: rlfdzzs@tpri.com.cn).