There are new guidelines for energy conservation and carbon reduction in high energy-consuming industries

Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission and other four departments jointly issued the "Implementation Guidelines for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction Transformation and Upgrading in Key Areas of High Energy-consuming Industries (2022 Edition)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Implementation Guidelines"), focusing on oil refining, cement, steel, non-ferrous metal smelting, etc.
17 industries have put forward work directions for energy-saving and carbon-reduction transformation and upgrading and specific goals by 2025
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Focusing on transformation and upgrading and technical research, 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, strengthen energy system optimization, waste heat and pressure utilization, and pollutant reduction.
Comprehensive utilization of waste discharge and solid waste and renovation of public and auxiliary facilities to improve the green level of production technology and technical equipment
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At the same time, promote green common key technologies, cutting-edge leading technologies and related facilities and equipment for synergistic efficiency of energy saving, pollution reduction and carbon reduction
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Taking the oil refining industry as an example, the data shows that the energy consumption of oil refining is mainly composed of fuel gas consumption, catalytic coking, steam consumption and electricity consumption
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By the end of 2020, about 25% of China's oil refining industry's capacity with energy efficiency better than the benchmark level, and about 20% of the capacity with energy efficiency lower than the benchmark level
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Li Yongliang, deputy director of the Industrial Development Department of China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation, said that the refining industry is the leader of the petrochemical industry, and the energy consumption mainly includes the large scale of small and medium-sized installations, low thermal efficiency of heating furnaces, insufficient energy system optimization, and energy consumption of power-consuming equipment.
Due to problems such as high energy consumption, energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation and upgrading have great potential
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In this regard, the "Implementation Guide" determines the transformation and upgrading path of the oil refining industry, such as strengthening the processing of low-quality heavy oil raw materials such as residual oil slurry bed hydrogenation, advanced separation and molecular refining and other in-depth refining and chemical technology development and application; The regenerant circulating catalytic cracking technology and the high-efficiency air preheater were popularized
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From the perspective of specific goals, the "Implementation Guide" makes it clear that 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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As an important supplement to petrochemical industry, modern coal chemical industry such as coal-to-methanol is an effective way to promote the clean and efficient utilization of coal
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The "Implementation Guide" released this time proposes that by 2025, the coal-to-methanol, coal-to-olefin, and coal-to-ethylene glycol industries will reach 30%, 50%, and 30% of the production capacity above the energy efficiency benchmark level, respectively, and the production capacity below the benchmark level.
Basically clear
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"Modern coal chemical industry uses coal as the main raw material, and its production process is based on chemical reactions, with a large number of material changes and energy exchanges, high technical level and complex process flow
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" Han Hongmei, deputy chief engineer of the Petroleum and Chemical Industry Planning Institute, believes that "Implementation "Guide" proposes to speed up the research and development of new high-performance composite catalysts, promote the demonstration application of independent complete sets of large-scale air separation, large-scale air compressor boosters, and large-scale coal gasification furnaces, and promote frontiers such as one-step synthesis of olefins from syngas, and the coupling of green hydrogen and coal chemical projects.
Technology development and application
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These measures will help to break through the limitations of the original technical conditions, promote the optimization of the process flow, reduce the consumption, make the utilization of material energy more reasonable, and accelerate the energy saving and carbon reduction in essence
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In order to better promote the transformation and upgrading of energy conservation and carbon reduction in key areas, the "Implementation Guide" proposes to promote agglomeration development, and guide key enterprises to give full play to their advantages in capital, talent, technology, etc.
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, focus on planning and building large-scale and integrated production bases, improve the level of process equipment and energy utilization efficiency, and build a development pattern with a reasonable structure, effective competition, and standardization and order, and shall not blindly expand production capacity and low-level repetitive construction in the name of mergers and acquisitions
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In addition, we will accelerate the elimination of backward production capacity and accelerate the withdrawal of production capacity with energy efficiency below the benchmark level and difficult to achieve above the benchmark level through transformation and upgrading within the specified time limit through market-oriented and legal means
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Han Hongmei believes that in specific practice, policy coordination and guarantees should be strengthened, and enterprises should be guided to actively adopt advanced and applicable technology and equipment to speed up energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation and upgrading, so as to ensure that the work objectives set forth in the "Implementation Guidelines" are achieved in a scientific, orderly and scheduled manner
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