Knowledge management becomes a new track for competitive advantage The development of green hydrogen still needs public policy support

Case: An enterprise has built a "digital knowledge management" model, which makes the rich experience and wisdom accumulated by many technical experts and skill masters over the years visible through the knowledge management system, and effectively shares and passes it on to other employees. Through the application system, the convenience of knowledge access, the efficiency of knowledge inheritance, and the cooperation of knowledge collaboration have been significantly improved.

Observation: This "digital knowledge management" model is a phased achievement of practicing knowledge management.

In the digital era, data has become the fifth largest factor of production after land, labor, capital and technology. Based on the information and knowledge extracted from data interpretation, people can make scientific decisions on the actual problems faced by enterprises in production and operation activities, establish enterprise management models, device operating procedures, various industrial software, etc., so as to find the best strategy to promote the long-term development of enterprises and adapt to the current situation, and finally transform data into productivity and competitiveness. That is, through a series of activities such as definition, collection, classification, archiving and application in daily operations, enterprises can effectively manage internal and external knowledge assets, optimize management processes, improve innovation capabilities, and form competitive advantages.

At present, many enterprises are deploying knowledge management systems, providing methods, working environments or new models such as "knowledge classification", "knowledge travel" and "knowledge intelligent operation". A typical case is that a scientific research unit applies functions such as semantic search and intelligent recommendation, and the proportion of time spent on data collection and research research in the process of scientific research by researchers transitions from 8:2 to 3:7.

From data to knowledge to management, the path still needs to be explored. For example, the cultivation of a culture of knowledge sharing. This includes how to establish incentives for everyone to share to break down "data silos"; it also includes establishing an open concept of knowledge and challenging the shackles of fixed thinking. However, in the future, with the construction of knowledge management systems and application upgrades, data will become an important element to promote the innovation and development of enterprises.

Case: China's largest photovoltaic power generation direct green hydrogen production project - Sinopec Xinjiang Kuqa green hydrogen demonstration project was recently completed and put into operation. According to reports, all 20,000 tons of green hydrogen produced here each year are supplied to Sinopec Tahe Refining and Chemical Company to replace natural gas used in refining and processing to produce hydrogen. The project can reduce CO2 emissions by 485,000 tons per year.

Observation: In the past few days, a news has attracted widespread attention, a British research team released a report that due to climate change, the Arctic is warming 4 times faster than the global average. The report states that the world must take immediate action to combat climate change. Chinese enterprises have made breakthroughs in solving the technical problems of the green hydrogen industry and successfully opened up a new path for deep decarbonization in the refining and chemical field, which has a major demonstration effect on the large-scale use of green hydrogen by refining and chemical enterprises to achieve carbon emission reduction.

It has become a fundamental global consensus that the energy transition is a necessary condition for economic growth and sustainable development, and electrification based on low-carbon technology solutions is one of the important solutions. However, it is difficult to fully electrify industrial activities such as high-temperature heating such as steel and cement, the supply of chemical raw materials, or heavy cargo such as aviation. At the same time, the full adoption of wind and solar power generation will also cause grid stability problems, which will affect energy storage. Green hydrogen can solve both problems. Green hydrogen is widely used, either directly as a fuel cell or for power generation, or as a feedstock to produce derivatives more suitable for transportation and storage. However, the transition from fossil fuels to clean green hydrogen requires a lot of capital, and the market is not yet mature due to its development stage.

Green hydrogen is the top form of clean hydrogen, and its development needs to rely on public policy support to achieve breakeven. With government support, through economies of scale and emissions trading, the cost of green hydrogen production can eventually be reduced to an acceptable range. Although the road is far away, it will be bright.