Table 29 Yearly patent growth of pyrolysis and gasification technologies for biomass. The column “Country” contains the patents per year and corresponding country. The column "Patent growth" reflects the annual change of activities for all countries (based on [83])
Year | Country | Total | Patent growth | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DE | CN | US | JP | GB | AU | Annual change (%) | ||
1995 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 100 |
1996 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | − 33 |
1997 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | − 67 |
1998 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
1999 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 92 |
2000 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 8 | − 21 |
2001 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | − 44 |
2002 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 121 |
2003 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 36 |
2004 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 12 | − 10 |
2005 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 51 |
2006 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 9 |
2007 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 53 |
2008 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 23 | 110 |
2009 | 3 | 28 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 43 | 22 |
2010 | 6.7 | 14 | 5.9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 29.5 | − 28 |
2011 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 23 | 0 |
2012 | 1 | 20 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 29 | − 14 |
2013 | 1.3 | 22 | 7.6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 38 | 12 |
2014 | 0 | 21.6 | 8.4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 34 | − 1 |
2015 | 1 | 38 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 48 | − 21 |
2016 | 0 | 35.6 | 0.4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 41 | − 4 |
2017 | 0 | 46 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | − 73 |
2018 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | − 87 |