Shanghai Petrochemical Research Institute's matrix management tackles key green plastics

| Abstract |

Shanghai Research Institute of Petrochemical Industry will combine the implementation of thematic actions with the implementation of the annual key tasks, deploy and promote them in an integrated manner, and earnestly implement the theme actions and achieve results
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Degradable plastic polyglycolic acid (PGA) is a major scientific and technological project of Sinopec
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The Shanghai Institute has deepened the matrix-type project management model, made every effort to promote the PGA project, and strived to achieve new breakthroughs
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The market demand for degradable plastics is growing rapidly.
The Shanghai Institute seized the favorable opportunity to develop the synthesis and processing application technology of green and environmentally friendly new degradable plastic polyglycolic acid (PGA), and successfully opened up the ton-level "glycolic acid-glycolide-PGA".
The whole process process realizes the downstream technical verification and trial of general PGA modified materials, laying a solid foundation for Sinopec in the field of degradable materials
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The Shanghai Institute takes the theme action as the starting point, strengthens scientific and technological innovation, deepens the matrix-type project management model, breaks down organizational barriers, turns individual combat into joint operations, continues to strengthen the cross-department, cross-disciplinary, and cross-professional collaborative research mechanism, and makes every effort to promote PGA project research
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"In September last year, the hospital established a PGA technology research leading group, as well as four working groups on PGA synthesis technology, processing and application technology, management coordination and intellectual property rights
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We regularly hold regular work meetings to find difficulties and blockages in time, and fully coordinate and solve various problems.
To solve such problems, we will actively implement specific tackling actions to ensure the smooth progress of the project in all aspects and from multiple perspectives
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” said Wang Rui, the backbone of the PGA project research and development
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In March this year, the Shanghai Institute of epidemic prevention and control and scientific research faced a severe test.
The PGA synthesis technology research team faced a series of problems such as tight time, heavy tasks and high requirements
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The research team convened a meeting of the party branch in a timely manner, actively played the vanguard and exemplary role of party members, established a commando team, and formulated a scientific research work plan during the epidemic
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The project team overcame various inconveniences, made full use of various online platforms for research, sorted out and discussed key technical bottlenecks, and coordinated to solve problems
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The model test reactor used in the PGA project was able to complete the online pre-acceptance on time, ensuring the progress of the pilot project
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While the PGA synthesis technology has been steadily advanced, the PGA processing and application technology group has realized the downstream technical verification and trial of the self-developed general PGA modified materials
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On June 6, the Shanghai Institute fully resumed work, and the PGA project team all returned to scientific research positions
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At present, the project team is carrying out various test tasks in a fast and orderly manner as planned
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| Next step plan |

The Shanghai Institute will stably assume the responsibility of the national strategic scientific and technological force, anchor the realization of key tasks and major project research goals, continue to promote PGA and other projects, speed up model test transformation and related verification tests, and deepen the research on chemically modified PGA synthesis technology.
Research on the processing and application of modified PGA film special materials and plastic film special materials to ensure the efficient implementation and high-quality completion of the theme action
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