10 technologies to focus on in the refining and chemical industry in 2022

1 Crude oil to chemicals and heavy oil catalytic cracking technology

Crude oil-to-chemicals (COTC) technology and heavy oil catalytic cracking technology have become the key technologies for refining and chemical enterprises to achieve "oil reduction and increase"

2 Diesel and wax oil conversion technology to produce chemical raw materials

In order to solve the problem of conversion and utilization of direct diesel and catalyzed diesel in refineries, it is necessary to speed up the development of diesel and wax oil conversion technology to produce chemical raw materials, and focus on making breakthroughs in the directional conversion of aromatic hydrocarbons and naphthenic hydrocarbons in diesel fractions, such as aromatics and naphthenic hydrocarbon hydrocracking production.

3 Molecular refining and intelligent refining technology

Molecular refining technology maximizes the value of each oil molecule by analyzing the composition of crude oil at the molecular level, accurately predicting product properties, finely designing processing processes, and optimizing device operations, reflecting the development direction of future refining technology

4 Syngas to olefins and aromatics technology

The route of synthesis gas to olefins and aromatics can expand the source of raw materials for the production of synthesis gas, and then produce chemicals

5 Waste plastic chemical recovery and chemical recycling technology

Chemical recycling of waste plastics is the process of converting plastic wastes through a series of chemical transformations to generate intermediate chemicals such as oil, gas and monomers

　　6 Alternative technologies for electrification

　　Energy electrification involves many technologies, focusing on green power development and application technology, photovoltaic, wind power and concentrated solar energy coupling technology, electricity storage technology, renewable electricity heating steam cracking furnace technology, coal-fired boiler electricity replacement technology, natural gas gas turbine technology , Electric heating reboiler replacement technology, large-scale unit steam turbine drive to electric drive and steam-thermal-electricity combined optimization technology, low-temperature waste heat and electric tracing heat and electric heating integrated application technology, excess low-temperature waste heat combined cooling, heating and power combined transportation technology,
etc.

　　7 Biomass conversion technology

　　Refining and chemical enterprises should focus on the main directions of efficiently preparing clean fuels, new chemical materials and fine chemicals from biomass raw materials such as oil and lignocellulose, focusing on liquid fuel technologies such as biodiesel, biojet fuel, and fuel ethanol, and efficient production of biomass.
Biomass gas fuel technologies such as hydrogen technology, biogas and its selective conversion, and key platform chemical synthesis technologies such as bio-based unsaturated long-chain dibasic acids
.

　　8 Low-concentration carbon capture and its chemical utilization technology

　　The refining and chemical industry should focus on low-concentration carbon dioxide capture technologies in refining units, including third-generation amine capture, membrane separation, functional adsorbents, and oxygen-enriched combustion technologies, as well as direct air carbon capture (DAC) technology to directly capture carbon dioxide from the air using advanced adsorption facilities
.
In the chemical utilization of carbon dioxide, the focus is on hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to produce methanol and aromatic hydrocarbons, direct esterification to produce carbonate/cyclic carbonate, and carboxylation to produce carboxylic acid/carboxylate
.

　　9.
Coupling technology for chemical production by electrolysis of water and hydrogen production

　　In the anodic oxygen evolution half-reaction of electrolysis of water for hydrogen production, coupled catalytic oxidative reforming can convert alcohol/aldehyde molecules into high-value oxygenated chemicals or fuels, which can be used in chemical, energy, pharmaceutical and other fields.
Decomposes to produce hydrogen
.
Compared with the traditional photoelectrolysis of water for hydrogen production, the use of biomass alcohol/aldehyde oxidation to replace the photocatalytic anode oxygen evolution process can effectively reduce the voltage and improve the solar energy utilization efficiency.
significance
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　　10 Ammonia Energy and Ammonia Sustainable Production Technology

　　Achieving the development of ammonia-hydrogen fusion may become one of the feasible solutions to solve the problem of long-distance and efficient hydrogen transportation
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The traditional ammonia synthesis process technology is mature, but it consumes a lot of energy and generates a large amount of carbon dioxide.
Therefore, the development of green hydrogen medium and low pressure synthesis ammonia technology has become a key direction
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(Hou Yuxuan and Mu Yanjun, Huangge Province, China Petroleum and Petrochemical Research Institute)

From: China Petroleum News