CCUS: A breakthrough in the low-carbon transformation of high-carbon industries

As a carbon-negative technology, carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technology has become an important driver and an important direction for

The CCUS industry is being rolled out globally

CCUS refers to the process

Sun Weishan, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and vice president of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation, introduced that at present, the global CCUS is developing rapidly

Sun Weishan introduced that China has the engineering ability of CCUS and is actively preparing for the whole process of industrial clusters

The application prospect of EOR technology is promising

Sun Weishan introduced that from a technical point of view, CCUS has 5 application forms, namely physical application, geological application, chemical application, biological application and mineralization application

Among the five applications, CCUS-EOR technology as a geological application is developing rapidly

Lv Guangzhong, senior expert of carbon dioxide flooding plant engineering technology of Sinopec Shengli Oilfield, introduced that Sinopec has completed the first million-ton CCUS project in China, "Qilu Petrochemical-Shengli Oilfield CCUS Project"

CCUS is of interest to the high-carbon industry

In addition to the relatively high degree of development of CCUS-EOR technology, CCUS's chemical application technology and carbon reduction effect have also attracted attention, especially for other high-carbon industry practitioners in the non-chemical industry

Jin Xiaoqiang, a researcher at the Low Carbon Metallurgical Technology Innovation Center of the Central Research Institute of Baosteel Co.

Regarding the low-carbon certification of chemicals from CCUS sources, Ding Yu, an expert of the Environmental Certification Management Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said that at present, chemicals should be judged from the perspective of the whole life cycle whether they are low-carbon products, and chemicals derived from CCUS are no exception