Under the background of the "double carbon" goal and the "double cycle" new development pattern, the petrochemical industry is facing unprecedented challenges and also facing strategic opportunities. Last week, the 4th World Oilmen's Congress "double cycle" pattern of China's petrochemical industry high-quality development Road Forum was held in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, the industry discussed in the "double carbon", "double cycle" and "double control" under the background of the petrochemical industry transformation and development path.

Under the background of "double carbon", "double cycle" and "double control", what kind of layout can the petrochemical industry break through the contradiction points and achieve high-quality development? Zhao Jungui, vice president and Secretary general of China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation, believes that the "14th Five-Year Plan" period is a key period for China's petrochemical industry to shift to independent innovation, establish an industry with international competitive comparative advantages, explore regional coordinated development and green development, explore international division of labor and cooperation, and integrate development with related industries, and cultivate international first-class enterprises. "In this new stage, the industry should realize the transformation of development momentum, from investment driven to scientific and technological innovation driven, and promote the transformation of the track, as well as the transformation of development mode and development concept." Zhao Jungui said.

In October this year, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the "Strict energy efficiency constraints in Key petrochemical and chemical industries to Promote energy saving and carbon reduction action Plan (2021-2025)", proposing that by 2025, through the implementation of energy saving and carbon reduction action, refining, ethylene, synthetic ammonia, calcium carbide industry to reach the benchmark level of production capacity ratio of more than 30%. In the view of Wu Hao, director of technical support and service center of China Petroleum and Chemical Science Research Institute, the current petrochemical industry carbon emission reduction is facing the pressure of large total emissions, tight emission reduction time, many constraints, weak data foundation and enterprise survival problems, the industry and enterprises need to find out the background as soon as possible, overall carbon reduction and development.

Wu Hao said that under the situation of carbon peak, more carbon reduction and economic development dual-drive technology programs should be implemented; For refinery planning projects, low-carbon genes should be created to lay a good foundation for carbon neutrality; In a carbon-neutral scenario, the proportion of renewable energy will be greatly increased, and more oil will be converted from fuel to feedstock. To this end, he suggested that the current carbon footprint research should be carried out, but also through energy optimization to achieve energy saving and carbon reduction, and rational use of hydrogen to reduce hydrogen production carbon emissions, improve the process efficiency of key equipment.

In the development of green transformation, how do petrochemical products achieve "from scratch"? Maosu Liu, global Vice President and general Manager, Asia Pacific, Honeywell Characteristic Materials & Technologies, showcases the transformation path currently under development in the petrochemical industry: biomass feedstock and crude oil are produced through integrated refining and chemical units to produce biofuels, oil and petrochemical products. "This model has stricter fuel standards, higher yields of petrochemicals, better return on investment and a smaller environmental impact." Liu Maoshu said.

China's dependence on foreign crude oil is large, how can we solve the imbalance between oil production and chemical demand? Wei Fei, director of the Academic Committee of the Department of Chemical Engineering of Tsinghua University, introduced to the guests the descending bed heavy oil/crude oil cracking technology to chemical production from a professional perspective. Xia Jianmeng, deputy general manager of Shanghai Jinfa Technology Development Co., LTD., suggested promoting the high-quality development of the industrial chain through upstream and downstream linkage through the perspective of plastic modification.

Digital technology also provides a path for the petrochemical industry to promote the goal of "dual carbon". Feng Enbo, chief scientist of China Blueststar Zhiyun, said that the industrial Internet takes big data algorithms as the core, and displays the hidden knowledge deposited in historical data by visual means, so that enterprise decision makers and process operators can instantly obtain the current state and the full dimension difference compared with history. "If this technology is applied to the chemical industry, the improvement direction and predictive decision basis can be obtained in real time." Feng Enbo said.