National Development and Reform Commission: Accelerate the elimination of ethylene plants below 300,000 tons/year!

On February 11, the National Development and Reform Commission and other four departments issued a notice on the "Implementation Guidelines for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction Transformation and Upgrading in Key Fields of High Energy-consuming Industries (2022 Edition)"
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Among them, in the ethylene industry, the phase-out and withdrawal of ethylene plants below 300,000 tons per year will be accelerated.
By 2025, the proportion of benchmark production capacity in the ethylene industry will reach more than 30%
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The implementation guide proposes that for enterprises whose energy efficiency is at the benchmark level, especially below the benchmark level, actively promote the advanced technology and equipment proposed in this implementation guide, the green technology promotion catalog, the recommended industrial energy-saving technology catalog, and the "Energy Efficiency Star" equipment product catalog.
Energy system optimization, waste heat and pressure utilization, pollutant emission reduction, comprehensive utilization of solid waste and renovation of public and auxiliary facilities, improve the green level of production processes and technical equipment, improve the efficiency of resource and energy utilization, and promote the formation of a strong domestic market

Guidelines for the implementation of energy-saving and carbon-reduction transformation and upgrading in the refining industry

The oil refining industry is the leader of the petrochemical industry and is related to the economic lifeline and energy security
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Refining energy consumption is mainly composed of fuel gas consumption, catalytic coking, steam consumption and electricity consumption

According to the Energy Efficiency Benchmark Level and Benchmark Level in Key Fields of High Energy-consuming Industries (2021 Edition), the benchmark level of refining energy efficiency is 7.
5 kg standard oil/(ton energy factor), and the benchmark level is 8.

Strengthen the development and application of cutting-edge technologies, and cultivate benchmarking and demonstration enterprises
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Promote the development and application of deep refining technologies such as the processing of inferior heavy oil raw materials such as residual oil slurry bed hydrogenation, advanced separation, component refining and molecular refining, low-cost production of olefins and aromatics, and direct cracking of crude oil

Strict policy constraints to eliminate backward and inefficient production capacity
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Strictly implement relevant laws and regulations on energy saving, environmental protection, quality, safety technology and other policies and policies such as the "Industrial Structure Adjustment Guidance Catalogue", and eliminate atmospheric and vacuum devices of 2 million tons per year or less, and use open flame high temperature heating to produce oil products in accordance with laws and regulations.

For the refining capacity whose energy efficiency level is below the benchmark value and cannot reach the benchmark value or higher through transformation and upgrading, according to the requirements of equal or reduced replacement, the exit will be accelerated by selecting the superior and eliminating the inferior, increasing the large and suppressing the small
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By 2025, the proportion of production capacity above the energy efficiency benchmark level in the refining field will reach 30%, and the production capacity below the energy efficiency benchmark level will be withdrawn at a faster pace
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Implementation Guide for Energy Saving and Carbon Reduction Transformation and Upgrading in Ethylene Industry

Ethylene is the most important basic raw material of the petrochemical industry, and its development level is an important symbol to measure the development quality of the national petrochemical industry
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Ethylene production process routes mainly include steam cracking, coal/methanol to olefins, catalytic cracking, etc.

According to the "Energy Efficiency Benchmark Level and Benchmark Level in Key Fields of High Energy-consuming Industries (2021 Edition)", the benchmark level of ethylene energy efficiency is 590 kg standard oil/ton, and the benchmark level is 640 kg standard oil/ton
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By the end of 2020, China's steam cracking ethylene production capacity with energy efficiency better than the benchmark level accounted for about 20%, and the energy efficiency lower than the benchmark level accounted for about 30% of the total production capacity

Strengthen the development and application of cutting-edge technologies, and cultivate benchmarking and demonstration enterprises
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Promote the development and application of crude oil direct cracking technology and electric cracking furnace technology

Strict policy constraints to eliminate backward and inefficient production capacity
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Strictly implement relevant laws and regulations on energy conservation, environmental protection, quality, safety technology and other policies and policies such as the "Industrial Structure Adjustment Guidance Catalog", and accelerate the phase-out of ethylene plants below 300,000 tons/year
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For ethylene plants whose energy efficiency level is below the benchmark value and cannot reach the benchmark value through energy-saving renovation, the phase-out will be accelerated
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By 2025, the scale level of the ethylene industry will be greatly improved, and the trend of light-weight, low-carbon, and high-quality raw material structure will become more obvious, the proportion of the benchmark production capacity of the ethylene industry will reach more than 30%, and the production capacity below the energy efficiency benchmark level will be transformed and upgraded in an orderly manner, and the industry will save energy.
The carbon reduction effect is remarkable, and the green and low-carbon development capacity is greatly improved
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