Petrochemical industry personage Zhoushan commented: Carbon reduction and high-quality development dual drive transformation

Under the background of "dual carbon", "dual cycle" and "dual control", how should the petrochemical industry lay out, break through contradictions, and achieve high-quality development? November 5, under the "dual cycle" pattern of the 4th World Oil Merchants Conference Forum on the Road to High-Quality Development of China's Petrochemical Industry (held in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, and many industry insiders talked about how the petrochemical industry faced challenges and seized opportunities
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Zhao Jungui, Vice President and Secretary-General of China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation, pointed out that the period of the "14th Five-Year Plan" is when China's petrochemical industry shifts to independent innovation, establishes industries with comparative advantages in international competition, explores coordinated regional development and green development, and explores and international division of labor.
It is a critical period for cooperation and integration with related industries to cultivate world-class enterprises
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"In the new stage, this industry should realize the transformation of development momentum, from investment-driven to technological innovation-driven, and promote the conversion of the track, development methods and development concepts
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Wu Hao, director of the Technical Support and Service Center of the China Petrochemical Research Institute, believes that at present, the petrochemical industry is facing pressures such as large total emissions, tight time for emission reduction, many restrictive factors, weak data base, and corporate survival problems.
Industries and companies need to "find out their homes" as soon as possible to coordinate carbon reduction and development
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In Wu Hao's view, in the context of carbon peaks, more efforts should be made to implement the dual-drive technology program of "carbon reduction and economic development"; for refinery planning projects, low-carbon genes should be created to lay a good foundation for carbon neutrality; In the context of carbon neutrality, the proportion of renewable energies has increased substantially, and oil has shifted more from "fuel" to "raw material"
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To this end, Wu Hao gave suggestions from three dimensions: current, short-term, and mid- to long-term: “Currently, carbon footprint research should be carried out to provide basic support, energy optimization to achieve energy saving and carbon reduction, rational use of hydrogen to reduce carbon emissions from hydrogen production, and overall process optimization.
Reduce carbon, rationally optimize crude oil, and improve process efficiency of key installations (such as separation systems)
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In the development of green transformation, how did petrochemical products experience "from scratch"? Liu Maoshu, global vice president and general manager of the Asia Pacific region of Honeywell Performance Materials and Technology Group, demonstrated the transformation path of the petrochemical industry that is currently under development: Material raw materials and crude oil are produced through integrated refining and chemical equipment to produce biofuels, fuel oils and petrochemical products
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　　"This model has stricter fuel standards, higher petrochemical products, higher return on investment, and less environmental impact
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　　China is highly dependent on crude oil.
How can the imbalance between oil production and chemical demand be solved in the future?

　　From a professional perspective, Wei Fei, director of the Academic Committee of the Department of Chemical Engineering of Tsinghua University, introduced the down-bed heavy oil/crude oil cracking technology to the guests
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　　Digital technology also provides a path for the petrochemical industry to implement the "dual carbon" goal
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　　Feng Enbo, chief scientist of Sinochem Bluestar Zhiyun, said that the industrial Internet uses big data algorithms as the core, and visualizes the hidden knowledge deposited in historical data, so that corporate decision makers and process operators can instantly obtain current information.
State, and the full-dimension difference compared with history
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　　"Applying this technology to the chemical industry can immediately obtain the direction of improvement, the basis for predictive decision-making, and the value loss of
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