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Environmental protection into the development of the catalyst market for high-end technology increased demand

2024/10/12

"Environmental protection is the catalyst for enterprises to achieve a leap forward, and it is also the most important starting point to reduce business risks." Lin Xiao, an associate researcher at the Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, pointed out. Li Xinchuang, vice president of the China Iron and Steel Association, president of the Metallurgical Industry Planning and Research Institute and Party secretary, also said, "No matter how the society progresses, steel materials will still be the most important and widely used structural materials and functional materials." The sustainable development of the steel industry cannot get around the sill of environmental protection. At present, even for enterprises with relatively high technical level, the pollution control cost has reached 150 to 200 yuan per ton of steel, accounting for 6% to 8% of the total production cost." Experts stressed that the sustainable development of steel enterprises, comprehensive cost minimization and meeting the requirements of the latest environmental emission standards are indispensable, and this requires pollution control based on the full life cycle, but also inseparable from technological innovation. The "nine chemical coordination" promotes the industry to upgrade the total amount of energy, individual amount of energy consumption, emission permit system, etc., which can be used as a starting point for green and low-carbon development in recent years, steel has become a hot topic, overcapacity, serious pollution, price fluctuations, etc., can always attract attention, everyone is asking: what happened to steel? "Steel and the economy are inseparable, and the rapid economic development has brought huge development dividends to China's steel industry, and technological progress has promoted the take-off of the steel industry." Li Xinchuang believes that with the slowdown of economic development, the steel industry can no longer grow rapidly for a long time in the future, and will enter a high hovering stage. The importance of steel in the national economy is self-evident, and some cities in China are "born because of steel", and the steel industry and the city have become a highly integrated whole. Where is the way out for steel in the future? Li Xinchuang's answer is "nine chemical synergies". "We want to reshape the value chain of steel, through green, orderly, so that the industry orderly development; Through quality, standardization, differentiation, service, diversification, intelligence, and constantly improve the competitiveness of the industry. At the same time, we will encourage qualified enterprises to internationalize and actively go global." It should be said that whether an enterprise can achieve sustainable development depends not only on whether it is profitable, but also on whether the relationship between the enterprise and the surrounding environment is harmonious. "Now, the steel industry is under great pressure, and environmental protection has become an important part of restricting the sustainable development of the steel industry." Cao Hongbin revealed such a set of data: at present, even if the technical level is relatively high, the consumption of tons of molten steel has reached 3 tons, the energy consumption of tons of steel is about 580 kilograms of standard coal, and the pollution control cost has reached 150 yuan to 200 yuan per ton of steel, accounting for 6% to 8% of the total production cost. Li Xinchuang said: "Steel enterprises face the pressure of total energy and energy consumption, the implementation of the emission permit system also requires the change of the past environmental management system, which is an important starting point for enterprises to promote green and low-carbon development." Combining environmental protection and the whole production process with environmental protection is not only a matter of environmental protection, to promote the improvement of the entire production process and system optimization After years of environmental protection transformation and pollution control, some conventional pollutants in the steel industry such as COD, SO2 and so on have been better controlled, and now are left behind are difficult to degradation, relatively low concentration, and relatively toxic pollutants. Governance costs are higher. "To support the sustainable development of steel enterprises, comprehensive cost minimization and meeting the requirements of the latest environmental protection emission standards are indispensable, and the low-cost system control of steel water pollution needs to be based on the whole life cycle of pollution control." Cao Hongbin said. "We do not advocate that environmental protection is not up to standard at the end of a device." As environmental protection requirements become more stringent, the governance process for companies will become longer and longer." Lin Xiao, an associate researcher at the Institute of Process Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told reporters that the better combination of environmental protection and the whole production process, so that the production cost may increase by 1 yuan, and the environmental protection cost is reduced by 2 yuan, which is still cost-effective. "Therefore, environmental protection is not only a matter of environmental protection, we need to promote the improvement of the entire production process and system optimization." Lin Xiao said that similar practices in the non-ferrous industry has achieved obvious results. For material processing enterprises, all raw materials are bought with money, and pollutants are generated from raw materials, enterprises have to spend money to buy raw materials, but also spend money to deal with pollutants, which is equivalent to spending two shares of money. "If the unused raw materials and by-products can be recycled, as long as the recovery cost is lower than the material value and environmental protection cost, the enterprise can produce benefits." If we can reduce emissions at the front end and recycle pollutants at the back end through the whole process optimization, we can solve the embarrassment of relying solely on harmless treatment at the end." Lin Xiao said. In addition to the improvement of process technology, Cao Hongbin reminded that enterprises should also pay attention to the improvement of management level, because the level of management will directly affect the governance effect. The operation effect of the same equipment in different enterprises varies greatly, and the management level is an important influencing factor, especially the anaerobic biochemistry and other links need to be refined management. The market demand for high-end technology to increase environmental protection is the catalyst for enterprises to achieve a leap forward, the lack of high-end production capacity, to a certain extent affected the transformation of scientific research results under pressure, the steel industry's elimination of backward and environmental governance has made no small progress. According to Li Xinchuang, the steel industry eliminated 90 million tons of backward production capacity during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, and about 140 million tons of backward production capacity should be resolved during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period. "We believe that environmental protection is effective, environmental protection is the catalyst for enterprises to achieve a leap, but also the most important starting point to reduce business risks." Enterprises need to change their philosophy, not to treat environmental protection as what you want to do, but now to become what I want to do, and to believe that environmental protection can create value." Lin Xiao said that in the recent period of time, many steel enterprises with a lot of environmental protection debts have been shut down, and the remaining enterprises have improved their benefits because of the increase in steel prices, which is an incentive for enterprises. "The cost of environmental protection should be included in the production cost of enterprises, before some enterprises do not pay attention to environmental protection or steal leakage, now, under the unified environmental protection requirements, everyone is competing who is good technology, who is good management, who is low cost of emissions standards, which is correct and fair." It is precisely because enterprises attach importance to environmental protection that the demand for technology research and development is more targeted and helps to solve the problem. "Only those who understand the business know what the business needs are." Lin Xiao believes that it is necessary to strengthen the communication between enterprises and scientific research institutions, so as to help scientific research institutions find the direction of research and development, help enterprises find external forces that can be used to reduce ineffective research. In recent years, the level of scientific research in our country has been greatly improved, but many scientific research achievements remain in the paper, and the transformation and application are not enough. Lin Xiao analysis said that in China, scientific research institutions generally make research results into a process package, output to the design institute to design blueprints, and then handed over to engineering companies for construction. However, because design institutes and engineering companies have operated as enterprises, they prefer to implement projects with low technology content and high output value through simple replication. "China is used to buying 60% of the functions at 1/3 of the price, and is not willing to buy 150% of the functions at twice the price." This actually leads to the lack of high-end production capacity, which affects the transformation of scientific research results to a certain extent." Still, Mr. Lin is optimistic about the outlook. He believes that with the tightening of environmental standards and industrial restructuring requirements, the market demand for high-end technology will increase. Of course, this is inseparable from the close integration and communication between enterprises and scientific research institutes, enterprises should run more scientific research institutions, and the personnel of scientific research institutions should also understand the needs of enterprises. "Only if everyone walks a little more at every link can the chain be tightened." Share button responsible editor: Tong Zhiwei