Committed to a low-carbon economy, let the chemical green

On December 4, 2015, a team led by Academic Dean Xu Delong, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Yang Tie-Sheng, Deputy Director of Energy Conservation and Comprehensive Utilization of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology visited Thorpe Group on the spot to “give the pulse” of the company's industrial green transformation and development path. "Prescription": Exploring the path of green and low-carbon development, deepening the integration of the two, and promoting intelligent green management.

The background of the "low-carbon economy" is a severe challenge to the survival and development of humankind due to global warming. Chemical industry is a high energy consumption and high emission industry, and it is also one of the industries with the largest CO2 emissions in China. During the United Nations Climate Change Conference, as the only Chinese city to participate in the climate conference on the city theme day, Zhenjiang demonstrated to the world the practice and contribution of Chinese cities in combating climate change. During the period of ****, the government's report on the work of addressing the problem of overcapacity and accelerating the sustainable development of ecological resources and the development of a low-carbon economy was more harshly worded than ever. The introduction of new environmental protection laws, the Air Pollution Prevention Action Plan, and the Energy Industry Air Pollution Management Plan have forced companies to continuously advance technological advancement, respond to institutional reform pressures, and increase energy efficiency.

In recent years, in the journey of low-carbon and green development in Zhenjiang, Zhenjiang Thorpe Group has passed the industrial transformation and upgrading, energy conservation and emission reduction, realized clean production, formed an eco-chemical and green chemical production method, and embarked on a sustainable development path.

Create "Sopold Model" Protecting Castle Peak Green Water

“As the first large-scale modern coal chemical enterprise in the country, Thorpe Group should be said to be a national model in terms of clean coal chemical industry or green coal chemical industry. It is worthy of many places in the central and western regions that develop coal chemical industry to learn from and collaborate to jointly develop rich western regions. "The resources." Ni Weidou, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, commented on this during the Thorpe Group visit.

Industrial enterprises are not only important players in the consumption of energy resources and pollution, but also bear the main responsibility for providing products, technologies and equipment for energy conservation and emission reduction. The level of green and low-carbon development directly affects and restricts the process of low-carbon development in society as a whole. . According to the results of 2014 Jiangsu Provincial Energy Conservation Target Responsibility Assessment, 10,000 enterprises, including the Thorpe Group, realized energy savings of 5,481,600 tons of standard coal and accumulated energy savings of 24,258,300 tons of standard coal, and completed the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” energy saving goals in advance and over-fulfilled. . The Thorpe methanol unit created the longest running record of 511 consecutive days in 2014. In the new overhaul period, the methanol synthesis catalyst has now been running for 42 months. According to the latest test analysis data, the indicators are normal. It is expected to continue to operate for more than 4 years. At present, the recovery of carbon dioxide in coal chemical installations is over 300,000 tons, the recovery rate is 40%, and the methanol consumption per ton of methanol is 6.39. These data fully demonstrate the valuable experience of the coal chemical technology and operation that the Thorpe Group has.

As a backbone chemical company in the city, Thorpe Group is making a contribution to the city's “Jinshan Yinshan” and at the same time, it is striving to protect “Green Hills” as its sacred mission. It strives unceasingly and works hard to actively undertake emission reduction responsibilities. On the one hand, the company will start its second transformation, integrate and optimize its existing industrial layout, actively take responsibility for environmental protection, complete the requirements of the national energy conservation and consumption reduction targets, and conscientiously develop from the company's long-term perspective, fulfill corporate social responsibility, and increase energy efficiency; On the one hand, as the director unit of the national acetic acid industry association, from the industry's high degree of overcapacity, disorderly expansion and other aspects to consider and long-term layout, in order to achieve healthy development of the industry and resource conservation and environmental protection "win-win" development goals.

Accelerate industrial transformation

Realize the burden of the environment

“For enterprises, achieving low-carbon development is not only a stress, but also an important way for companies to adjust their product mix, increase economic efficiency, and increase market competitiveness,” said Wu Qinglong, chairman of Thorpe Group.

At the China-U.S. Climate Smart/Low-Carbon Cities Summit in September this year, Thorpe Group and Praxair signed a memorandum of cooperation on the project of the air distribution and installation of the acetic acid gasification process. At the end of October the first session of the Jiangsu Jiangsu Thorpe Clean Coal Chemical Industry Comprehensive High-efficiency Energy-saving and Emission Reduction Technology Exchange Seminar, the key to the success of the coal chemical industry was energy-saving and emission reduction, and the road to development of an efficient and clean coal chemical industry became the consensus of the industry and the development of the new normal. The Paris Agreement is the first agreement in the world that allows all countries to commit to cutting carbon emissions. It will directly affect the development trend of the chemical industry and will accelerate the adjustment of the existing chemical industry structure.

Under the new normal, how can coal chemical companies maintain sustained and healthy development? Thorpe Group explored a "scientific structure optimization coupled with energy structure adjustment," the scientific emission reduction path, through the industrial transformation and upgrading "strengthening health", both for the environment to reduce the burden, but also for the ecological value-added. According to Hu Zonggui, general manager of the group, this year is the second year of the “Three-Point Action Plan for the Thorpe Group's Eco-environmental Protection”. 21 projects of the eight major projects have completed two-thirds of the total, and energy conservation represented by the comprehensive utilization of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and recycling. The emission reduction project also became a new highlight of the economic growth of the Thorpe Group to optimize the industrial structure. Among them, the 200,000-ton CO2 recovery project has been put into operation, and it is planned to build another 200,000 tons next year to count the 50,000-ton food-grade recovery device built last year. Hu Zonggui said, “Thorpe’s carbon dioxide recovery rate by next year If it reaches 75% or more, it will increase the output value of 180 million yuan." The plant's carbon monoxide recovery device can recover carbon monoxide with a purity of 98.5%, which can be used as a raw gas. On the one hand, it saves the production cost of the group; on the other hand, it increases the output value by another 30 million each year, and actually reduces carbon dioxide emissions by about 2,600 m3/h. Excellent energy and environmental protection projects with good social benefits. Another eco-environmental double-efficiency project is a recycling facility. The project uses Dutch HEFRON modified Krauss technology with a global market share of 40%. It designs and recycles 6,000 tons annually, and the hydrogen gas tail gas treatment rate reaches 99.9. Above 3%, the three sets of denitrification and dust-removal transformation projects are also in full swing. It is estimated that after the completion of the end of 2016, the annual reduction of SO 2672 tons and 45 tons of dust can be realized.

In addition, the Group also actively promoted the elimination of old motors. By the end of this year, the company had used 2,987 motors in total, with a total capacity of 222633.53kW, of which 348 were high-energy motors and the total power was about 7,695kW.

In this year's Thorpe chemical industry tourism activity, the 78-year-old party member Shen Huiming came to the factory to look east, Xiqiao, a strict inspection of the demeanor, "The original Thorpe Group's ecological environment is so beautiful, birds and flowers, Nothing tastes at all, it's not the ambiguity in the imagination at all. Rest assured."

All this, thanks to Thorpe Group's advocacy of eco-chemical and green chemical production methods, the use of advanced technologies to reduce the emission levels of soot, carbon dioxide, chemical oxygen demand, ammonia nitrogen, nitrogen oxides and other pollutants, and vigorously improve the waste heat The comprehensive utilization of Yu Wen, so as to truly achieve clean production, high efficiency and energy saving, sustainable development.

Adhere to low-carbon development

Do Green Chemical Leader

The Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee put forward five development concepts, one of which was “green development”, which also became the main tone of economic development during the “13th Five-Year Plan” period. Zhenjiang is the only pilot city for green transformation and development in Jiangsu Province. The Thorpe Group, as the largest state-owned enterprise in the municipality, will firmly grasp the “One Belt and One Road” strategic opportunity in green, low-carbon, and cyclic development, and be courageous in development. Pick up the burden of low-carbon environmental protection and define three levels of requirements for ecological environmental protection management: First, standardize operations, control emissions, and meet discharge standards; second, meet the domestic advanced level in the same industry; and third, strive to achieve “zero” emissions. We will raise the level of environmental protection and use our own practical actions to fulfill our commitment to society.

Facing the future, Thorpe Group will also rely on the park's advantages in the Jingang Industrial Park to attract green chemical industry, new materials, new energy, and professional logistics to agglomerate and develop with its leading position in the industry, and promote the greening, ecologicalization, and recycling of the chemical industry. In order to form a new industrial cluster of green chemical materials; to build a non-chemical industrial cluster such as 2.5 industry, new low-carbon manufacturing, which is mainly based on logistics services, R&D and design, etc., with a strong capital operation platform and sound industrial supporting facilities. Achieve the development goals of maximizing the integrated value of economy, society and environment.

“The world is experiencing a new industry with a low carbon economy.” This is a prediction made by the British government in a report made by Stern six years ago on world economic trends. Six years later, the development of a green, low-carbon economy has become a reality. “Green and low-carbon development is becoming the development philosophy of all companies, and it is also a constant pursuit of practical pursuits. It needs to sit and seek, but it also needs to be implemented. The Thorpe Group is no exception. Always sticking to the steps and working for a long time, we will be able to In exchange for the "Kingshan Yinshan", "Green Hills" win-win symbiosis." Chairman Wu Qinglong firmly said.