Observation of Environmental Protection Equipment Manufacturing Industry (2) How does environmental protection equipment manufacturing serve the collaborative governance of pollution reduction and carbon reduction?
"From the perspective of environmental governance, we started with pollution control, and now we have started a new stage of coordinated governance of pollution reduction and carbon reduction. At the 8th China Environmental Protection Equipment Summit Forum held a few days ago, Gao Xiang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of Zhejiang University of Technology, pointed out that in this context, the traditional market of the environmental protection equipment industry is decreasing, and the new market is growing, which puts forward higher requirements for the environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry.
Ren Hongqiang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and dean of the School of Environment of Nanjing University, also pointed out that our current battle against pollution is no longer a simple pollution control, but a reflection of the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, which should be more embodied in three aspects, including environmental risk control, that is, from governance to risk control, coordinated management of pollution reduction and carbon reduction, and innovation that conforms to the laws of nature.
At present, for the environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry, in the future, how to innovate and develop in the field of collaborative governance of pollution reduction and carbon reduction is a problem that the industry needs to think about.
New market demand is growing
Backbone enterprises will push to new "battlefields", new tracks, and new fields
It is understood that the current challenges and pressures of pollution reduction and carbon reduction are mainly based on fossil energy, heavy chemical industry in industrial structure, and fossil fuels are mainly used in road transportation and shipping.
Gao Xiang said: "In the future, pollution reduction and carbon reduction cannot be seen from the end, but from the whole process. Whether our energy supply can achieve green energy, can we ensure stable supply, because pollution reduction and carbon reduction and energy relationship is very large; many enterprises are doing ultra-low emission transformation, to solve the pollution problem, but the problem of large carbon emissions is still not solved; in addition, the organic waste gas treatment industry, especially the VOC treatment industry also has shortcomings, at the same time, the treatment of new pollution and nitrogen dioxide is the current challenge, but also the opportunity of the environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry. ”
However, Gao Xiang also pointed out that over the years, China's environmental protection equipment has made good progress in pollutant emission reduction and air treatment, related pollution has been well controlled, and carbon emissions and pollutants have the same root and origin, so environmental protection equipment can provide a good foundation for the coordinated management of pollution reduction and carbon reduction.
In addition, according to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, in 2022, the output value of China's environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry will reach 960 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.13%. According to the "Action Plan for the High-quality Development of Environmental Protection Equipment Manufacturing Industry (2022-2025)" issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other departments in 2022, this industry will strive to achieve an output value of 1.3 trillion yuan in 2025.
"At present, the market demand for China's traditional environmental protection equipment is shrinking. In the field of air pollution control, the number of coal-fired industrial boilers has dropped from a peak of 500,000 to less than 100,000 now; in the field of water pollution control, the urban sewage treatment rate is more than 97 percent; in the field of solid waste disposal, the municipal solid waste treatment rate is also close to 100 percent. At the 8th China Environmental Protection Equipment Summit Forum, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (hereinafter referred to as the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology) Energy Conservation and Comprehensive Utilization Department of Environmental Protection Division Director Yuan Ling used this set of data to show that the traditional market of China's environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry is decreasing.
At the same time, new market demand is growing. Yuan Ling pointed out that at present, the retired batteries generated by China's new energy industry, including retired photovoltaic modules, retired wind power, etc., the demand for the treatment and application of these new solid wastes is increasing, and new technologies and equipment are the bottleneck, which also puts forward new requirements for the environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry.
"Under the requirements of pollution reduction and carbon reduction, all countries are promoting green and low-carbon scientific and technological innovation and industrial development. Gao Xiang said.
The industry should enter a period of high-quality development
In the future, it is the development trend to make up for shortcomings, expand long boards, and gather advantages
"China has introduced a series of policies and measures to encourage and ensure the high-quality development of the environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry. We believe that the country's environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry should enter the quality of the development of the excellent period, from the development of the entire equipment manufacturing point of view, the future should be to make up for the shortcomings, expand the long board, the development trend of gathering advantages. Ren Hongqiang pointed out.
The National Development and Reform Commission recently released the "Industrial Structure Adjustment Guidance Catalogue (2024 Edition)", which will come into force on February 1, 2024, and also encourages the development of relevant technologies and equipment for environmental protection and resource conservation and comprehensive utilization. For example, carbon capture, utilization and storage engineering, technical equipment and technical services, rapid detection of toxic and harmful substance leakage, online monitoring and migration early warning technology, equipment research and development and application, waste photovoltaic modules, waste wind turbine blades, waste grease and other typical urban waste recycling, technology and equipment development and application, waste power battery automatic dismantling, automatic rapid sorting into groups, battery remaining life and consistency assessment, comprehensive recovery of valuable components, cascade utilization, recycling technology, Equipment development and application of these equipment technologies are within the scope of the state's encouragement of development, and many technologies are the focus of making up for shortcomings, expanding longboards, and gathering advantages.
On November 30, 2023, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also issued the "Catalogue of Major Environmental Protection Technology and Equipment Encouraged by the State (2023 Edition)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Catalogue"), which contains a total of 158 major environmental protection technologies and equipment in three technical stages of development, application and promotion, including air pollution prevention and control, water pollution prevention and control, solid waste treatment and disposal, special instruments for environmental monitoring, special parts for environmental pollution prevention and control equipment, noise and vibration control, etc., to develop products for enterprises and other entities. Provide guidance to adapt to market needs. Yuan Ling said that it is necessary to regularly update the "Catalogue of Major Environmental Protection Technology and Equipment Encouraged by the State".
According to Ren Hongqiang, in the field of air pollution control, a major difficulty is the concentration orientation problem. At present, all indicators are concentration-oriented, and in the future, it may be more meaningful to consider from the health system, and it may be more meaningful to add effect-oriented, so the new trend of technology and equipment should be developed and innovated from the trend of precision, coordination and health.
In terms of the treatment of new pollutants, the existing difficulties are mainly the problem of detection lines, including the relatively weak reduction technology and equipment. In the future, the environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry can explore and innovate around high sensitivity, high throughput and digitalization.
In terms of synergistic technologies for pollution reduction and carbon reduction, we can explore controllable, energy consumption, non-renewable, secondary pollution, including resource utilization.
High-quality development still faces new challenges
Environmental protection equipment shoulders the "mission" of multi-task processing and multi-functional integration
"Vigorously developing the environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry is not only a practical need to promote the green and low-carbon transformation of the manufacturing industry itself, but also an important guarantee for promoting the green development of the economy and society and forming a new growth point of the green economy. Huang Libin, director of the Energy Conservation Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said.
However, with the encouragement of new market growth and related policies, the environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry is facing new challenges while ushering in a new stage of development.
Ren Hongqiang believes that the future of environmental protection equipment may shoulder the "mission" of multi-task processing and multi-functional integration. Unlike before, environmental protection equipment considers water treatment is the monitoring or removal of COD or organic matter, and the atmosphere is to detach and control pollutants.
"In the future, the entire environmental protection equipment will tend to be data-driven and intelligent. Key technologies for environmental media interface sensing, key technologies for efficient separation of complex pollutants, integration modeling of data-driven and mechanistic models, integrated technology of digital twin equipment design and manufacturing, rapid and accurate monitoring technology for pollution, low-carbon pollution control technology for ultra-short process, intelligent control technology for pollution control, pollutant directional resource utilization and energy technology, and equipment design and manufacturing technology driven by big data are all key development areas. Ren Hongqiang pointed out that the application of these technologies also faces new challenges.
For example, the innovative integration of equipment and facilities requires a larger data platform. Ren Hongqiang believes that in the future, in the equipment manufacturing system, there will be more environmental big data resource platforms. Because of the integration of multiple functions, the environmental big data resource platform may play a greater role, and this aspect faces new challenges.
Another example is the innovation of environmental protection equipment, which requires more comprehensive research on the innovation of the equipment industry, including cutting-edge materials, cutting-edge research and accumulation involving multiple disciplines, which requires long-term reserves.
In addition, the future development of environmental protection equipment should also consider the issue of basic resources. For example, after the project actually enters the remediation of environmental problems, it must have supporting patent protection, standard setting, and the construction of engineering and equipment data centers.
"The high-quality development of the environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry is a complete system. If as before, our equipment only does one thing, but now to complete multiple things, we need a multi-functional, multi-system integration pattern, these problems can be dealt with, in order to solve the problems faced by the future environmental protection equipment industry innovation. Ren Hongqiang said.
It is worth mentioning that China's multi-pollutant co-treatment technology has made significant progress. The reporter of this newspaper combed through the "Catalogue" and found that there are 6 multi-pollutant co-treatment technologies and equipment declared for inclusion in the "Catalogue" in 2023, including ultra-low emission technology and equipment for the integration of catalyst ceramic fiber filter tubes, integrated equipment for deep desulfurization and dust removal and denitrification of high-temperature flue gas metal film, integrated collaborative removal equipment for dust and nitration, dry collaborative in-depth treatment equipment for multi-pollutant coking flue gas, multi-pollutant collaborative removal equipment for cremation machine flue gas, and integrated equipment for carbon anode (calcination and roasting) flue gas desulfurization and dust removal.
