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  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,519 Views
19 Pages

22 August 2022

This study selected the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration as the research area, combining it with the current situation of the transportation development of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration to construct the urban agglomeration transp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
442 Views
33 Pages

20 December 2025

The influence of the digital economy on green technological innovation is essential for the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Based on panel data from 30 Chinese provinces between 2011 and 2023, this study establishes a dual fixed-e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,580 Views
23 Pages

3 October 2022

This study selected the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration as the research area, considering the current status of its transportation development to construct an urban agglomeration land transportation integration index system and to evaluate th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,448 Views
28 Pages

Spatial Spillover Effects of Urban Agglomeration on Road Network with Industrial Co-Agglomeration

  • Xin Liu,
  • Pingping Luo,
  • Madhab Rijal,
  • Maochuan Hu and
  • Khai Lin Chong

5 December 2024

Urban agglomerations are pivotal to industrial co-agglomeration, underscoring the significance of efficient road networks and economic growth. This study examines the spatial spillover effects of infrastructure resilience on industrial co-agglomerati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,172 Views
16 Pages

15 February 2023

The construction of the high-speed rail (HSR) network in China has greatly weakened the spatial barriers to the flow of production resources, which has become a key factor affecting the spatial layout of the producer service industry. Based on the pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,893 Views
18 Pages

An Automated Processing Method for Agglomeration Areas

  • Chengming Li,
  • Yong Yin,
  • Xiaoli Liu and
  • Pengda Wu

Agglomeration operations are a core component of the automated generalization of aggregated area groups. However, because geographical elements that possess agglomeration features are relatively scarce, the current literature has not given sufficient...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,217 Views
25 Pages

19 April 2023

China’s urban agglomerations (UAs) are striving to build a new development pattern oriented towards the new era and new stage, and the population distribution is facing new problems of synergy with the layout of labor factor productivity and re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,383 Views
14 Pages

Self-Agglomeration in Fluidised Beds after Spray Drying

  • John J. Fitzpatrick,
  • Shaozong Wu,
  • Kevin Cronin and
  • Song Miao

Many powders are produced in spray-drying processes from liquid concentrates. Self-agglomeration can be performed in a fluidised bed where the spray-dried powder is agglomerated using the liquid concentrate as the binder material. This has advantages...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,426 Views
23 Pages

It is a key issue for the Chinese government to improve eco-efficiency and realize green development. As a spatial organization mode of industrial labor division, industrial agglomeration has a complex impact on eco-efficiency. However, it is still d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,662 Views
24 Pages

The rapid development of the urban network has led to the fact that cities are no longer single individuals, and the network has changed the urban development environment. The interaction between cities has gradually become an important factor for th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,231 Views
19 Pages

21 September 2019

This paper employed dynamic generalized method of moment methods to measure the growth effect of 202 prefecture-level cities covered by 14 national urban agglomerations in China from 2007 to 2016. Based on this, this paper further explored the main f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,425 Views
22 Pages

13 June 2018

Industrialization and urbanization has rapidly advanced in China. Therefore, clarifying the relationship between industrial agglomeration and environmental pollution resolves questions if intensive or dispersed development should be adopted for the f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,042 Views
18 Pages

8 August 2023

This paper explores the relationship between high-speed rail (HSR) and industrial agglomeration within urban agglomerations. The paper selects the data of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Urban Agglomeration (BJHUA) and Central Plains Urban Aggl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,638 Views
18 Pages

What Causes the Virtual Agglomeration of Creative Industries?

  • Xu Chen,
  • Chunhong Liu,
  • Yao Jiang and
  • Changchun Gao

17 August 2021

The agglomeration paradigm for creative industries has fundamentally changed under the digital economy, giving rise to a new form of virtual agglomeration within these industries. This study explores the causes of this virtual agglomeration. We colle...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,755 Views
9 Pages

26 September 2022

Xanthan gum (XG) powder was agglomerated via a fluidized-bed agglomeration process using water and maltodextrin (MD) binder solution, after which the products were examined. The agglomerated XG samples were collected every 10 min during agglomeration...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,463 Views
12 Pages

29 May 2019

Environmental efficiency evaluation is an effective way to assess the synergetic development degree between the economy and environment. In order to realize the mechanism of the effects of urban sprawl and industrial agglomeration on environmental ef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,241 Views
19 Pages

The accurate identification of urban agglomeration spatial area is helpful in understanding the internal spatial relationship under urban expansion and in evaluating the development level of urban agglomeration. Previous studies on the identification...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,064 Views
15 Pages

The Effect of Manufacturing Agglomeration on Haze Pollution in China

  • Jun Liu,
  • Yuhui Zhao,
  • Zhonghua Cheng and
  • Huiming Zhang

Based on panel data on 285 Chinese cities from 2003 to 2012, we use a dynamic spatial panel model to empirically analyze the effect of manufacturing agglomeration on haze pollution. The results show that when economic development levels, population,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
925 Views
25 Pages

18 June 2025

With the increase in greenwashing, corporate greenwashing governance has become a crucial component of urban environmental management. Industrial clusters are a key form of urban economic organization, yet the mechanisms through which they affect cor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,374 Views
12 Pages

Agglomeration-Flotation of Finely Ground Chalcopyrite and Quartz: Effects of Agitation Strength during Agglomeration Using Emulsified Oil on Chalcopyrite

  • Vothy Hornn,
  • Mayumi Ito,
  • Hiromasa Shimada,
  • Carlito Baltazar Tabelin,
  • Sanghee Jeon,
  • Ilhwan Park and
  • Naoki Hiroyoshi

23 April 2020

In flotation, the size of mineral particles is one of the most important parameters: when the size becomes fine, collision efficiency of the particles and air bubbles becomes low, causing low flotation recovery. To improve the collision efficiency an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,425 Views
19 Pages

28 February 2023

In comparison to agglomeration economies, the negative externalities of agglomeration have received less attention. Based on the punishment data of illegal loans from Chinese bank branches, this paper focuses on the relationship between density and c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,189 Views
19 Pages

2 September 2022

To investigate the spatial evolution process of economic development in the urban agglomeration and its influencing factors, the network construction method, modified gravity model, geographic detector and Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,359 Views
18 Pages

Impact of Industrial Agglomeration on China’s Residents’ Consumption

  • Suhua Zhang,
  • Yasmin Bani,
  • Aslam Izah Selamat and
  • Judhiana Abdul Ghani

6 April 2022

Residents’ consumption is a good indicator of people’s livelihoods and one of the motivations driving economic growth. There are many studies on the influencing factors of residents’ consumption; however, few have studied the effect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
2,848 Views
45 Pages

22 August 2024

The co-agglomeration of the digital economy industry and manufacturing is significant for addressing issues such as being “large but not strong” and “comprehensive but not refined” in China’s manufacturing sector. This s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,597 Views
19 Pages

22 August 2022

Under the background of complex domestic and international environment and the trend of urban population agglomeration, the impact of population agglomeration on urban economic resilience is worthy of attention. This paper uses a sample of 284 cities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,805 Views
19 Pages

Analyzing Agricultural Agglomeration in China

  • Erling Li,
  • Ken Coates,
  • Xiaojian Li,
  • Xinyue Ye and
  • Mark Leipnik

20 February 2017

There has been little scholarly research on Chinese agriculture’s geographic pattern of agglomeration and its evolutionary mechanisms, which are essential to sustainable development in China. By calculating the barycenter coordinates, the Gini coeffi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,958 Views
20 Pages

6 June 2023

Carbon emissions, as an indicator of green economic development in urban agglomerations, are closely related to the degree of coordinated development between cities. Additionally, urban agglomerations, as a highly developed form of urban space, are w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,633 Views
14 Pages

20 January 2023

Pregelatinized starches are used as thickeners in many instant food products. The unique properties of pregelatinized starches, such as their dispersibility in water and high viscosity, are generally desirable for instant food products. However, powd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,073 Views
19 Pages

Measuring Energy Storage Industry Agglomeration: Evidence from China

  • Yuyu Xue,
  • Yinghui Qiao,
  • Yanqiu Zhou and
  • Zhixiong Tan

8 September 2025

Industrial agglomeration is an inevitable path for the energy storage industry to develop on a large scale. Based on the database of listed companies in China’s A-share market, the data of upstream and downstream enterprises in the energy stora...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,562 Views
21 Pages

6 December 2023

This paper identifies the importance of reducing fixed costs for establishing industrial zones as part of an agglomeration policy. China’s economic growth has been driven by the agglomeration of manufacturing firms via industrial zones that att...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,499 Views
13 Pages

Modelling Particle Agglomeration on through Elastic Valves under Flow

  • Hosam Alden Baksamawi,
  • Mostapha Ariane,
  • Alexander Brill,
  • Daniele Vigolo and
  • Alessio Alexiadis

This work proposes a model of particle agglomeration in elastic valves replicating the geometry and the fluid dynamics of a venous valve. The fluid dynamics is simulated with Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics, the elastic leaflets of the valve with the L...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,710 Views
14 Pages

1 January 2023

As the net effect of agglomeration on entrepreneurship depends on the trade-off between positive and negative effects, urban agglomeration can either promote or discourage entrepreneurial activity in theory. However, there is an unexpected shortage o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,121 Views
17 Pages

23 March 2022

Urban agglomeration is a new carrier of regional economic development, whose spatial structure can be reflected by the transportation system. The coordination between urban economic development and the transportation system is conducive to promoting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
551 Views
22 Pages

17 October 2025

Implementing environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure is critical for manufacturers’ sustainable development and high-quality growth. Amid manufacturing agglomeration, firms’ spatial concentration reshapes value creation and...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
959 Views
17 Pages

15 August 2024

This study presents a novel method to determine the kinetics of spherical agglomeration in-line via monitoring the stirrer torque. In order to confirm that the torque can be used to characterise the process phases, samples were taken at different tim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,025 Views
20 Pages

21 February 2023

The proposal of the high-quality development strategy of the Yellow River Basin is of great significance for accelerating industrial agglomeration. This study takes 49 prefecture-level cities in the Yellow River Basin as the research object. Based on...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,007 Views
9 Pages

In this study, two novel spherical agglomeration processes based on membrane systems were successfully implemented to produce spherical agglomerates of benzoic acid crystals obtained via antisolvent crystallization. Two membrane configurations were c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,129 Views
21 Pages

24 August 2023

The Internet has profoundly affected the spatial structure of cities, but few relevant studies have investigated it from the perspective of manufacturing agglomeration. Using panel data of prefecture-level cities in China covering the period 2003&nda...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
10,218 Views
20 Pages

24 July 2024

Crystal agglomeration is a common phenomenon for most chemicals and pharmaceuticals. The formation of agglomerates usually lowers product purity and generates a broad particle size distribution. This review focuses on preventing agglomeration in solu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,836 Views
13 Pages

13 September 2020

By shortening the transportation time between cities, high-speed rail shortens the spatial distance between cities and exerts a far-reaching influence on urban agglomerations’ spatial structures. In order to explore the influence of high-speed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,587 Views
22 Pages

A Framework for Spatiotemporal Analysis of Regional Economic Agglomeration Patterns

  • Rui Jin,
  • Jianya Gong,
  • Min Deng,
  • Yiliang Wan and
  • Xuexi Yang

7 August 2018

Understanding regional economic agglomeration patterns is critical for sustainable economic development, urban planning and proper utilization of regional resources. Taking Guangdong Province of China as the study area, this paper introduces a compre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
994 Views
25 Pages

In this paper, we present the concept of “sequencing economics”, consisting of (A) segmentation, (B) construction sequencing, and (C) functions. An agglomeration is organized into segments, and sequencing economics examines the sequential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,529 Views
23 Pages

16 August 2023

Global climate change has emerged as a persistent global crisis. Under the dual pressures of industrial structure upgrading and ecological environment improvement, enhancing enterprise ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) performance can contr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,462 Views
23 Pages

27 December 2018

Inequality, in any form and dimension, is a major damaging factor for sustainable development. One of the essential drivers of inequality is the over-agglomeration and congestion in a certain region. The reasons for the agglomeration are well documen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
5,283 Views
19 Pages

11 February 2022

Loss of green space habitats and landscape fragmentation are important reasons for the decline in environmental quality, degradation of ecosystem functions, and decline in biodiversity. Quantifying the spatio-temporal characteristics of landscape fra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,796 Views
24 Pages

Location Decisions of New Manufacturing Firms in Ecuador. Agglomeration Mechanisms

  • Tania Paola Torres-Gutiérrez,
  • Ronny Correa-Quezada,
  • María de la Cruz del Río-Rama and
  • José Álvarez-García

7 August 2020

This investigation seeks to explore the importance of agglomeration mechanisms in the location decisions of new manufacturing firms in Ecuador, based on sector and canton level data for the 2000–2010 period. A model is proposed to explore the r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,046 Views
24 Pages

Can Innovation Agglomeration Reduce Carbon Emissions? Evidence from China

  • Jianqing Zhang,
  • Haichao Yu,
  • Keke Zhang,
  • Liang Zhao and
  • Fei Fan

Innovation agglomeration plays a decisive role in improving the input–output scale and marginal output efficiency of factors. This paper takes carbon emissions as the unexpected output and energy consumption as the input factor into the traditi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,109 Views
19 Pages

28 September 2019

Economic efficiency is the key issue of sustainable development in urban agglomerations. To date, more attention has been paid to the estimates of productivity gains from urban agglomerations. Differing from the previous studies, this paper focuses o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
13,682 Views
20 Pages

Agglomeration Control during Ultrasonic Crystallization of an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient

  • Bjorn Gielen,
  • Jeroen Jordens,
  • Leen C. J. Thomassen,
  • Leen Braeken and
  • Tom Van Gerven

8 February 2017

Application of ultrasound during crystallization can efficiently inhibit agglomeration. However, the mechanism is unclear and sonication is usually enabled throughout the entire process, which increases the energy demand. Additionally, improper opera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,760 Views
23 Pages

11 October 2023

Transportation plays an important role in urban development and the formation of urban agglomerations. Indexes including urban centrality, urban development intensity, and degree of urban development imbalance are defined to measure the level of urba...

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