Jiangsu plans to significantly reduce the number of chemical companies, and the number of chemical parks may be reduced from 50 to 20?

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The Paper ( reporter recently learned that Jiangsu Province intends to optimize the planning and layout of the chemical industry, and significantly reduce the environmentally sensitive areas, urban population areas, and chemical parks within 1 km along both sides of the Yangtze River.

Overall consideration between safety and environmental protection

From medicine and textiles to electronics and building materials, modern life is inseparable from the chemical industry.
Due to the wide range of categories and products in the chemical industry, many types and large quantities of pollutants are emitted during production.
At the same time, due to the complexity of the process, the safety control should be stricter.

The person in charge of the aforementioned chemical company told The Paper that in terms of rectification items, the departments of environmental protection, safety supervision, industry and information technology, fire protection, and housing construction generally only manage one piece instead of comprehensive rectification.
Conflicts between rectification items, companies often can only choose one side to consider.

The person in charge of the company cited an example to reporters.
In the last round of chemical remediation, the Environmental Protection Department of Jiangsu Province requested to strengthen the monitoring capabilities of volatile organic compounds (VOC).
However, the current VOC online monitoring equipment mainly uses the ion flame method to detect.
The flame ionization method refers to the use of organic matter to generate ionization reactions in a hydrogen flame to generate many ion pairs, forming an ion current between two poles with a certain voltage, and measuring the intensity of the ion current to detect the component.

"As an open flame, it is obviously unsafe to install around a chemical production plant," said the person in charge of the company.

In addition to VOC monitoring, the person in charge of the company also mentioned that in order to improve the exhaust gas treatment capacity, the usual practice is to install RTO incinerators.
RTO incinerators mainly use natural gas, diesel and other fuels to fully combust the organic waste to be processed, and the waste is incinerated and carbonized at a high temperature.
In this way, the hazardous and toxic substances in the waste after incineration are oxidized and destroyed by pyrolysis at high temperature, which will reduce or even eliminate the hazardous substances.
"Such incinerators are not properly arranged in the plant area.
"

“The chemical industry is subdivided into many segments, and each segment has certain characteristics.
It is necessary to be familiar with the production experts in the industry to easily find the problems of the production enterprises.
” The person in charge of the company believes that the regulatory authorities rely heavily on third-party consultation.
However, many relevant personnel and third-party consultants do not have experience in chemical production, nor do they understand the actual problems encountered in production.

"We also hope that the rectification and reform measures for chemical companies are based on the overall consideration of safety, environmental protection, fire protection and housing construction.
" The person in charge of the aforementioned company suggested.

Production stoppage, production restriction and accident rate

In an interview with The Paper ( Cinda Securities Research Director Zhang Yansheng said that in recent years, the probability of safety accidents in the chemical industry has increased, which is also related to rectification and suspension of production and winter production restrictions.
Zhang Yansheng previously worked for China National Chemical Corporation and has more than ten years of experience in the chemical industry.

"From time to time there are production suspensions and production restrictions.
Jiangsu chemical companies will have a situation: when they resume production, their operating rate may be very high, especially for some small chemical varieties.
The production was stopped for half a year and the inventory was used up.
Orders accumulate, and they will definitely work overtime after construction starts, which may increase the probability of accidents.
” Zhang Yansheng said.
On the other hand, many chemical raw materials, whether gas or liquid, are corrosive.
When the enterprise operates normally and continuously, the raw materials also operate at a normal rhythm, and the risk is relatively low.
However, if production is often stopped, these materials may cause damage to the equipment when stored, and there will be hidden problems.
When the centralized construction starts, the danger will increase.

It is understood that since 2016, chemical companies in Jiangsu Province have experienced multiple rounds of rectification, production restrictions and production suspensions, ranging from one week to six months.
Affected by the explosion accident in the Lianyungang workshop on December 9th in 2017, starting from the second quarter of 2018, chemical companies in Jiangsu Province have halted production on a large scale, and by the end of 2018, companies have resumed production one after another.
Jiangsu Tianjiayi Chemical Co.
, Ltd.
was one of the chemical companies that resumed production in December 2018, where the "3·21" explosion accident occurred in Xiangshui, Jiangsu.

The person in charge of the aforementioned company told The Paper that due to the long-term rectification of chemical companies, the mobility of personnel has increased and the loss of skilled workers has been severe, which has increased safety hazards to a certain extent.

The draft of the "Plan" puts forward that to standardize the management of chemical production enterprises, it is necessary to improve the professional level of employees.
The legal person of the chemical enterprise and the largest shareholder (actual controller), technical person in charge, safety person in charge, and special operations personnel need to pass the emergency department's practice ability training and assessment, hold a certificate to work, and accept no less than 16 hours of relevant post technology each year Retraining etc.

Chemical industry should be distributed along the coast

Although the specific items of the draft of the "plan" are still in the research stage, in the face of successive chemical accidents, it is imperative for Jiangsu Province to improve the rectification of chemical enterprises.

Zhang Yansheng told The Paper reporter that from the most reasonable logic point of view, the chemical industry should be located in the lower reaches of the river and along the river, whether it is domestic or developed countries such as Europe and the United States.
This is currently the case.
This is not to allow chemical companies to directly discharge wastewater, but to treat wastewater that meets the standard.
The best way is to discharge it into the sea.
The environmental capacity of nature is very large, and it will not have any impact on the environment.

"The special situation of environmental protection in China is the distribution of population.
The outlet to the sea is in the east, and the densely populated area is also in the east.
Therefore, to put the industry in the east, it is indeed more stressful to bear the environment.
" Zhang Yansheng said, "If you go The western part of the population is less populated.
The western part is the upper reaches of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers.
After the waste enters the groundwater, it will eventually reach the sea.
"

On the other hand, considering that environmental protection in China used to have too many "debts", which caused the environmental capacity of rivers and estuaries to be much lower than before, Zhang Yansheng believes that allowing chemical companies to withdraw from areas along the river seems to be "overcorrected", but there is also a certain rationality behind it.
Considerations.

It is understood that the "Plan" of Jiangsu Province mentioned that the number of chemical production companies in the riverside area should be reduced.
In principle, all 34 companies within 1 kilometer on both sides of the Yangtze River and outside the chemical park will withdraw before the end of 2020.
Companies that really cannot be relocated will be assessed for safety and environmental risks one by one; 254 companies in the chemical park will complete a company-by-enterprise assessment and put forward disposal opinions before the end of 2019.
Any company that has no industrial chain connection with the park and has high safety and environmental risks Withdraw before the end of 2020.

In addition, with regard to the number of enterprise exits initially drafted in the draft of the "Plan", Zhang Yansheng believes that the reduction in the number of enterprises alone cannot confirm the impact of supply capacity.
For example, there are a large number of small workshop enterprises, but their share of production capacity is not Not much, or even some excess capacity.
In addition, many chemical companies may undergo certain mergers and integrations or be acquired by large companies in the process of entering the park.

The draft of the "Plan" mentioned that it is necessary to further investigate the 1,660 enterprises below the designated size and assess the safety and environmental risks.
All enterprises that do not meet the standards will be closed and withdrawn before the end of 2020.
Enterprises that meet the standards are encouraged to enter chemical parks or concentrated areas for development.
Of course, when production is stopped for rectification, there will be short-term shortages of some products, or some sudden and substantial price increases.

"For companies, it is important that the government should have a relatively clear and long-term plan to give companies a stable expectation," Zhang Yansheng said, "For example, is a certain industry an industry that needs to be withdrawn in the long run, or is it a recent investigation? It’s too strict, so it can’t be done.
Otherwise, in the short term, if the company has no way to build factories or relocate in other places, a certain product may suddenly lose its supply capacity.
”