"Carbon peak" and "carbon neutral" create business opportunities for the instrumentation industry

[ Focus on Chemical Machinery and Equipment Network ] Compared with other countries, China will face many challenges on the road to achieving carbon neutrality, such as large carbon emissions, fossil energy consumption as the main energy, and short buffer time from carbon peak to carbon neutrality.

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China is a carbon dioxide emitter.
In 2019, carbon dioxide emissions accounted for 29.
4% of the total global emissions, more than the United States (14.
4%), India (6.
9%) and Russia (4.
5%) combined
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At present, China's energy consumption is still dominated by fossil energy such as coal, oil, and natural gas, and coal in particular accounts for more than half
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In 2019, China's total energy consumption was 34×108t oil equivalent, with coal accounting for 58% and oil accounting for 19%
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China has only a short period of 30 years from the peak of carbon to carbon neutrality, that is, after the peak of carbon, it needs to decline rapidly and move towards carbon neutrality
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The EU promised that the carbon peak time to carbon neutrality is 60 to 70 years, and the buffer time is twice that of China
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In view of China's national conditions, foreign carbon neutral models cannot be copied, and a carbon neutral implementation route that meets China's resource endowments and national conditions needs to be formulated
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On the road to carbon neutrality, China needs to work together in the fields of power, industry, construction, and agriculture to reduce the emissions of "black carbon" and make use of the availability of "grey carbon"
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　　Optimizing the industrial structure and energy structure, accelerating the construction of a national energy rights and carbon emission rights trading market, and enhancing the carbon sink capacity of the ecosystem.
These three directions are all hotspots of the "14th Five-Year Plan", and the same applies to the scientific instrument industry.
There are huge business opportunities
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　　The realization of the "2060 carbon neutral" goal requires a new low-carbon development and transformation strategy, which is forcing China's energy structure to undergo a mandatory transformation, so that it will gradually get rid of its dependence on fossil fuels and coal-fired power plants, and break through the bottleneck of existing technologies.
Many industries will face all-round development, such as the current strong growth in demand for new energy storage, how to achieve large-scale solar energy storage; solar/wind power generation devices need to be accelerated, how equipment manufacturers can achieve technological innovation; battery energy storage demand increases, battery production How do commercial/trolley car companies improve; energy storage batteries respond to rising demand for chemicals, and how should chemical manufacturers respond; plastic alternatives are scarce, and biodegradable materials need to be developed.
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These transformations require huge capital and a green, low-cost The large-scale R&D and application of carbon technology, and these related studies require the support of a large number of scientific instruments
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　　Photovoltaic power generation will be combined with energy storage, hydrogen energy and other technologies to greatly reduce the energy cost of the whole society
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Heterojunction cell technology combines the advantages of crystalline silicon cells and thin film cells, and is considered to be one of the important development directions of high conversion efficiency silicon-based solar cells
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The battery industry will bring huge business opportunities to analytical instruments
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　　The "Measures for the Management of Carbon Emission Trading (for Trial Implementation)" was reviewed and approved by the Ministerial Meeting of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment on December 25, 2020, and has been implemented since February 1, 2021
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Among them, it is clearly stipulated that the annual greenhouse gas emissions of enterprises reach 260,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, which is equivalent to about 10,000 tons of standard coal in energy consumption, which is included in the key greenhouse gas emission units
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So how to conduct greenhouse gas monitoring for enterprises, how to effectively self-test the enterprises, and which instruments to use for testing are still unknown
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There are currently 7 atmospheric background stations in China.
The gases observed by the atmospheric background stations include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride and other halogenated greenhouse gases
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Monitoring greenhouse gases is the basis for achieving carbon neutrality.
This is undoubtedly a big business opportunity for gas monitoring instrument manufacturers! The conduct of related research undoubtedly needs the support of a large number of scientific instruments, which deserves the focus of relevant instrument companies
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　　Source: Instrument Information Network
 

　　Original title: "Carbon peak" and "carbon neutral" create business opportunities for the instrumentation industry