The dual-driven transformation of carbon reduction and high-quality development in the petrochemical industry

Under the background of "dual carbon", "dual circulation" and "dual control", how should the petrochemical industry be laid out, break through contradictions, and achieve high-quality development? Many industry insiders talked about how the petrochemical industry can face challenges and seize opportunities
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Zhao Jungui, vice president and secretary-general of China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation, pointed out that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's petrochemical industry turned to independent innovation, established industries with international competitive comparative advantages, explored regional coordinated development and green development, and explored and international division of labor.
It is a critical period for cooperation and integration with related industries to develop and cultivate world-class enterprises
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"In the new stage, this industry should realize the transformation of development kinetic energy, from investment-driven to technological innovation-driven, and promote the transformation of tracks, development methods and development concepts
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" Zhao Jungui said
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Wu Hao, director of the Technical Support and Service Center of the China Academy of Petroleum and Chemical Research, believes that at present, the carbon emission reduction of the petrochemical industry is facing pressures such as large total emissions, tight emission reduction time, many restrictive factors, weak data foundation and enterprise survival problems.
The industry and enterprises need to 'find out the bottom line' as soon as possible to coordinate carbon reduction and development
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In Wu Hao's view, in the case of carbon peaking, more efforts should be made to implement the dual-drive technical solution of "carbon reduction and economic development"; for refinery planning projects, low-carbon genes should be created to lay a good foundation for carbon neutrality; Under the carbon neutral scenario, the proportion of renewable energy will increase significantly, and oil will be more transformed from "fuel" to "raw material"
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To this end, Wu Hao gave suggestions from three dimensions: current, near-term and medium-to-long-term, "Currently, carbon footprint research should be carried out to provide basic support, energy optimization should be used to achieve energy saving and carbon reduction, rational use of hydrogen to reduce carbon emissions from hydrogen production, and overall process optimization.
Carbon reduction, rational optimization of crude oil, improvement of process efficiency of key units (such as separation systems), etc.

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In the green transformation and development, how did petrochemical products experience "from scratch"? Liu Maoshu, global vice president and general manager of the Asia-Pacific region of Honeywell Performance Materials and Technology Group, demonstrated the transformation path of the petrochemical industry currently under development: Biofuel, fuel oil and petrochemical products are produced from the material raw materials and crude oil through the integrated refining and chemical plant
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"This model has stricter fuel standards, higher petrochemical products, higher return on investment and smaller environmental impact
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" Liu Maoshu said that in the long run, waste plastics can also "incarnate" raw materials and be produced through petrochemicals A device that produces renewable chemicals, recycling plastics and zero carbon emissions
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China is highly dependent on crude oil.
How can we solve the imbalance between oil production and chemical demand in the future?

Wei Fei, director of the Academic Committee of the Department of Chemical Engineering of Tsinghua University, introduced the down-bed heavy oil/crude oil cracking technology to chemicals from a professional perspective
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Xia Jianmeng, deputy general manager of Shanghai Kingfa Technology Development Co.
, Ltd.
, from the perspective of plastic modification, suggested that the upstream and downstream linkages be used to jointly promote the high-quality development of the industrial chain
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Digital technology also provides a path for the petrochemical industry to implement the "dual carbon" goal
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Feng Enbo, Chief Scientist of Sinochem Bluestar Zhiyun, said that the industrial Internet is centered on big data algorithms, and visualizes the tacit knowledge accumulated in historical data, so that enterprise decision makers and process operators can instantly obtain current information.
status, and full-dimension differences compared to history
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"Applying this technology in the chemical industry can instantly obtain improvement directions, predictive decision-making basis and value loss
of inaction.
" Feng Enbo said
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