I pioneered the pilot technology of carbon dioxide hydrogenation to gasoline

The picture shows the pilot plant
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(Photo by Wei Jian)

The picture shows the pilot plant

The technology was jointly developed by the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Zhuhai Fulu Energy Technology Co.
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The world's first 1,000 t/a CO2 hydrogenation to gasoline pilot plant developed using this technology was successfully started in Zoucheng Industrial Park, Shandong, and produced clean gasoline products that meet the National VI standard

It is understood that the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide into liquid fuels and chemicals can not only realize the resource utilization of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, but also facilitate the storage and transportation of renewable energy
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However, carbon dioxide activation and selective conversion are extremely challenging, and domestic and foreign technical routes mostly focus on the synthesis of low-carbon compounds

To this end, a research team consisting of Sun Jian and Ge Qingjie, researchers from the Dalian Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed a carbon dioxide hydrogenation-to-gasoline technology in 2017
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According to Sun Jian, the technology has undergone laboratory tests, 100-gram single-tube evaluation tests, ton-scale catalyst preparation, and pilot-scale process package design.
In 2020, a thousand-ton pilot plant will be built in Zoucheng Industrial Park, Shandong
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The device has successively achieved material commissioning, official operation and industrial sideline data optimization, and passed the continuous 72-hour on-site assessment organized by the Petrochemical Federation in October 2021

In addition, this technology creates a composite catalyst, which is applied to the one-step carbon dioxide hydrogenation to gasoline process through the synergistic coupling of multiple active sites.
The isothermal fixed-bed carbon dioxide hydrogenation reactor improves the carbon dioxide conversion rate and gasoline selectivity, and meets the production requirements of energy saving and carbon reduction; it also realizes the production of high-octane isoparaffins and aromatics under mild conditions.
Standard gasoline
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Ge Qingjie told reporters that the technology has advanced the basic research of carbon dioxide resource utilization to industrial application
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At present, there are very few real economic benefits from the utilization of carbon dioxide, especially the hydrogenation process of carbon dioxide, most of which are still in the basic research stage

　　At present, the team has formed a complete set of carbon dioxide hydrogenation to gasoline production technology with independent intellectual property rights
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Ma Daoyuan, deputy general manager of Zhuhai Fulu Energy Technology Co.

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　　Academician He Mingyuan from East China Normal University: Hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to produce high value-added chemicals or liquid fuels is of great significance for energy conservation, emission reduction and recycling of carbon resources
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The project's carbon dioxide hydrogenation to gasoline technology has three reaction steps: carbon dioxide is added to hydrogen to generate carbon monoxide; carbon monoxide and hydrogen undergo Fischer-Tropsch reaction to generate olefins; olefins undergo multi-step dimerization, disproportionation, transfer and cracking into gasoline

Academician He Mingyuan, East China Normal University:

　　Men Zhuowu, a professor-level senior engineer at the Beijing Institute of Low-Carbon and Clean Energy: This project is one of the technologies for carbon dioxide utilization
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The catalyst is original, and the feasibility of the technology has been verified in the pilot plant, providing a solution for the realization of the "two-carbon" goal, but there is still room for further optimization of the reactor form

Men Zhuowu, a professor-level senior engineer at the Beijing Institute of Low-Carbon and Clean Energy:

　　Ding Mingyue, professor of Wuhan University: With the proposal of the "dual carbon" goal, the task of carbon dioxide emission reduction in the energy and chemical industry has become extremely severe
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China's current annual carbon dioxide emissions exceed 10 billion tons.
The preparation of liquid fuels and high-value chemicals by hydrogenating carbon dioxide is of great significance for energy conservation and emission reduction
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This carbon dioxide hydrogenation technology achievement is the first in the world, the overall technology is at the international leading level, and it has a leading role in the direction of high-value utilization of carbon dioxide
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　Ding Mingyue, a professor at Wuhan University: