Experts from the Petroleum and Chemical Industry Planning Institute: Carbon reduction in the petrochemical industry should focus on the whole process

To achieve low-carbon development of the petrochemical industry, efforts should be made
in five aspects: low-carbon industrial organization, low-carbonization of raw materials, low-carbonization of processes, low-carbonization of products, and storage of carbon dioxide capture and utilization.
This is the message
conveyed at the recent petrochemical industry low-carbon development report meeting held on the line of the Petroleum and Chemical Industry Planning Institute.

Li Junfa, secretary of the party committee and president of the Planning Institute, pointed out that for the petrochemical industry, achieving the "double carbon" goal mainly faces four challenges: both to control carbon emissions and maintain stable economic growth; It is necessary to continue to promote carbon peak action, but also to properly deal with the competition of foreign enterprises and barriers to international trade; It is necessary to grasp the rhythm of first standing and then breaking, and also balance the relationship between stock carbon reduction and incremental low-carbon; It is necessary to handle well the relationship with upstream and downstream, and to achieve the coordinated development of
the industry and related industries.

"In order to achieve low-carbon development, it is necessary to run the 'double carbon' goal through all aspects and the whole process of the petrochemical industry, and comprehensively promote the green and low-carbon transformation
of various sub-industries.
" Li Zhijian, vice president of the Planning Institute, pointed out that all fields of the industry should adhere to the priority of efficiency and carbon reduction at the source; Adhere to innovation as the first driving force, and strengthen the innovative application of a new generation of information technology in the field of green and low-carbon; Adhere to policy guidance and market leadership, and further stimulate the endogenous power
of market players in the low-carbon transformation.

In terms of low-carbon raw materials, Gong Huajun, deputy director of the Petrochemical Department of the Planning Institute, pointed out that it is necessary to realize the low-carbon of raw materials in the petrochemical industry through the integration and development of a variety of raw materials and multiple energy sources
.
At the same time, it is necessary to make forward-looking plans
for the future industrial layout and technological innovation.
Such as the layout of low-carbon and zero-carbon raw material bases in the southwest region; Development of bio-based materials, new technologies for plastic recycling, etc
.

In terms of low-carbon technology, Zhu Binbin, deputy director of the Energy and Chemical Division of the Planning Institute and director of the Low-carbon Technology Development Center, believes that the adjustment of the production technology route has greater carbon reduction potential, but it needs to be combined with China's energy resource endowments and the long-term trend of external energy supply
.
At the same time, energy conservation through process optimization, unit equipment energy saving, system optimization technology and other methods also has a certain carbon reduction potential
.

In terms of low-carbon products, Qiao Bing, deputy director of the High-end Development Research Center of the Chemical Industry of the Planning Institute and senior engineer of the Department of Materials and Chemical Engineering, stressed that the petrochemical industry needs to continuously improve and break through the independent industrialization ability
of high-performance products.
For short-board materials, we should increase innovation and research and development efforts to promote product quality upgrading; Strengthen upstream and downstream collaboration of the industrial chain; Give full play to the role of market regulation and government guidance, and break down the barriers
of the supply chain system.
For products that already have scale advantages, the technological upgrading of key raw materials should be accelerated to avoid homogenization; Strengthen the overall security and stability of the industrial chain and supply chain; Actively follow up the technical dynamics of the downstream market, attach importance to the overseas patent layout, and do a good job in technical reserves
conducive to product update and iteration.

According to Wu Guisong, deputy chief engineer of the Materials and Chemical Engineering Department of the Planning Institute, the Planning Institute is conducting research on the carbon emission coefficient of
petrochemical products.
Due to the difference in the process technology route of the petrochemical industry, the carbon emissions of different raw materials and different processes of the same product will be different
.
They have mastered a large number of product and process databases, established more than 40 products, more than 100 raw material technology routes, and hundreds of scenarios of carbon emission inventories to guide carbon evaluation work
.

The report meeting was presided over
by Zheng Baoshan, vice president of the Planning Institute.