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    Petrochemical industry under ecological pressure, refined development makes green the background of the industry

    • Last Update: 2023-01-04
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    【Chemical Machinery and Equipment Network Industry News】Promoting the coordinated development of ecological economy has become the main line
    of social development at this stage.
    With the proposal of "dual carbon", ecological environmental protection requirements have been implemented to various industries
    .
    Especially for industries with high energy emissions, it has become the focus of
    "dual carbon".

     
    As the cornerstone of the national industry, the petrochemical industry plays a supporting role
    .
    However, it is worth noting that while the petrochemical industry contributes to the economic growth rate, it also brings inevitable scars
    to the ecology.
    How to reshape the petrochemical industry and let petrochemical enterprises take a good ecological development path is a puzzle point: why is it important for the petrochemical industry to reduce emissions, and where is its focus?
     
    The petrochemical industry has increased its motivation to reduce emissions
     
    According to the economic operation data of the petrochemical industry in the first half of 2022 released by the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation, petrochemical industry enterprises achieved revenue of 81,300 yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.
    9%; Total profit was 752.
    12 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 24%.

    It is worth mentioning that as of the end of June, the number of enterprises in the petrochemical industry was 28,500, an increase of 1,823 compared with the same period last year, and the number of enterprises on the scale increased
    significantly.

     
    On the one hand, this trend is due to the acceleration of eliminating backward production capacity, and the petrochemical industry has transformed
    towards scale, large-scale and agglomeration.
    On the other hand, a number of small and medium-sized enterprises have improved their innovation ability and development quality a lot, and have become large-scale enterprises
    .
    Industrial resources continue to agglomerate, industrial advantages have grown significantly, and market effects have been outstanding
    .
    However, the expansion of the number and scale of petrochemical enterprises may bring certain ecological impacts
    .

     
    The energy sector is used as the main driver of current emission
    reductions.
    Under the "dual carbon", the "dual control" has increased the pressure
    of emission reduction in the petrochemical industry.
    The energy consumption of raw materials in the petrochemical industry accounts for 70%
    of the total energy consumption of raw materials in the country.
    The petrochemical industry converts raw oil and raw coal into methanol, oil products, natural gas, polypropylene and other products
    .
    These products are typical of high energy consumption and high emission intensity users
    .

     
    Therefore, the reduction of energy consumption in the petrochemical industry plays an important role
    in energy conservation and emission reduction in the whole society.

     
    In addition, in the front-end time, many domestic petrochemical enterprises were "named", and the dual control of energy consumption in many places lit up the "red light"
    .
    The pollutant emission data has led major chemical provinces such as Jiangsu, Guangdong and Zhejiang to strike hard, taking measures
    such as stopping production for thousands of enterprises.
    In order to avoid the suspension of enterprises caused by ecological "failure", many petrochemical enterprises have increased their self-emission reduction efforts
    .

     
    Policy push and pull strengthened
     
    The petrochemical industry has a high energy concentration and is one of the high-energy-consuming and high-emission industries in China's industrial sector, accounting for 4%-5%
    of the national total annual emissions.
    Although the carbon emissions of the petrochemical industry are generally low, the carbon emission intensity of the petrochemical industry is high, and the energy efficiency utilization rate is lower than the world's advanced level
    .
    "Dual control" of carbon emissions, controlling carbon emission intensity, is conducive to the transformation and upgrading
    of the petrochemical industry to green and low-carbon.

     
    Based on the current situation of the petrochemical industry, the 14th Five-Year Plan was released in 2021 to further improve the dual control system of total energy consumption and intensity, focus on controlling fossil energy consumption, and require GDP energy consumption and carbon emissions in 2025 to be reduced by 13.
    5% and 18%
    respectively compared with 2020.

     
    In October of the same year, China submitted its Determined National Contribution (NDC) document, which stated that it will focus on emission reduction in the energy sector, control volatile organic compound emissions in the petrochemical industry, encourage the use of green completion, promote associated gas recovery technology and other measures to effectively control petrochemical pollution emissions
    .

     
    In June this year, PetroChina released the "PetroChina Green and Low-Carbon Development Action Plan 3.
    0", striving to achieve "carbon peaking" around 2025, providing green zero-carbon energy to exceed its own consumption of fossil energy by 2035, and achieving "near-zero" emissions
    around 2050.
    A series of low-carbon policies for the petrochemical industry are charting the path
    .

     
    There is great potential for industrial refinement
     
    Under the background of the "dual carbon" policy, petrochemical enterprises are facing the dual pressure of transformation and decarbonization, but at the same time, they are also facing huge development opportunities under the new situation: refined industrial development
    .

     
    Take the petrochemical industry, for example
    .
    At present, the industry intends to distinguish between raw material energy use and fuel energy use, and shift from "dual control" of energy consumption to "dual control" of carbon emissions, so as to help the petrochemical industry to save energy and reduce emissions more accurately
    .

     
    Not only that, refined development also refers to the petroleum industry enterprises through adjusting the product structure, strengthening operation management and other measures from the whole process and all links of the whole chain, including source governance, process control, daily supervision, dynamic monitoring and other links, which is to work on structural adjustment, process control optimization, equipment upgrading and other technical aspects
    .

     
    Continuously accelerate the pace of
    building safe, green and low-carbon urban refining and chemical enterprises.
    Take Lanzhou Petrochemical as an example
    .
    After the implementation of fine management and integrated planning of energy conservation and consumption reduction, Lanzhou Petrochemical saved energy from January to July this year by saving 09,400 tons of standard coal, 217,000 tons of water and 3,061,300 tons of sewage reuse, effectively promoting energy emission and consumption
    .

     
    In addition to the refined development of the industry itself, new energy has become an important auxiliary force
    in the petrochemical industry in recent years.
    A number of petrochemical enterprises have adopted new energy distributed generation or purchased green power to solve the energy consumption caused by fuel and power, and increase the proportion of
    new energy power generation from the power generation side.
    In addition, some enterprises have implemented deep decarbonization to solve the energy consumption caused by raw materials, such as actively applying green hydrogen to replace fossil raw materials, and taking the path
    of energy conservation and carbon reduction.

     
    The "dual control" of carbon emissions is the requirement to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and is the extension and development of the "dual control" of energy consumption, which has a more distinct orientation of carbon control, carbon reduction and carbon reduction, and will not restrict the demand for energy use of economic growth, which is conducive to expanding the scale of renewable energy utilization and carbon emission reduction
    in the non-energy field.
    In general, petrochemical companies need to refine the two keywords of China and new energy in order to take bigger steps and go faster
    in emission reduction.

     
    (Source: People's Daily News, Caixin Net, Sinopec, China Economic Network, Economic Situation Report Network).

     
    Original: Petrochemical industry ecology under pressure refined development makes green the industrial background
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