The iron and steel industry is a key area of concern for energy conservation and emission reduction. The China Iron and Steel Industry Association has released the "China Iron and Steel Industry Low-Carbon Technology Roadmap", which clarifies the direction of green development of my country's iron and steel industry. Recently, at the 2023 (thirteenth) China Iron and Steel Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction Forum, He Wenbo, Secretary of the Party Committee and Executive Chairman of the China Iron and Steel Industry Association, aimed at how my country's iron and steel industry can achieve coordinated development of pollution reduction and carbon reduction, and high-quality completion of low-carbon transformation tasks. It is proposed that the iron and steel industry should optimize and adjust the industrial structure, unswervingly promote ultra-low emission transformation, attach great importance to energy conservation and carbon reduction, plan to lead low-carbon transformation, actively plan industrial synergy, and make full use of intelligent management and control.
"The iron and steel industry must correctly understand the necessity, feasibility, and complexity of low-carbon transformation, maintain strategic focus, and work steadily." Sun Zhen, a first-level inspector of the Climate Change Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said.
Remarkable achievements in energy saving and emission reduction
Energy saving and emission reduction is one of the important tasks in the transformation and development of the iron and steel industry. It is not only the core connotation of the green development of the industry, but also the specific starting point for enterprises to survive, win market competition, and plan long-term development. In 2010, no company in my country's iron and steel industry implemented ultra-low emission transformation, which is no longer the same today. According to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, as of the end of July this year, a total of 251 companies across the country with a production capacity of about 681 million tons of crude steel have completed or are implementing ultra-low emission transformation, and a total of 29 companies have completed the entire process with a production capacity of 168 million tons of crude steel. Ultra-low emission transformation and assessment monitoring, 22 enterprises completed part of the transformation.
Liu Bingjiang, director of the Atmospheric Environment Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, believes that in recent years, my country's iron and steel industry has achieved remarkable results in energy conservation and emission reduction, especially in the transformation of ultra-low emissions, which has achieved world-renowned achievements, mainly reflected in the "four promotions": Promote the continuous improvement of the overall level of the industry, promote the advancement of pollution control technology, expand the scale of the environmental protection industry, promote the adjustment of the transportation structure and the rapid development of related industries, and promote the improvement of air quality in areas where steel production capacity is concentrated.
Steel is not only a consumer product, but also the basis for the development of many industries. Energy conservation and emission reduction in my country's iron and steel industry still need to deal with many challenges such as the severe market situation, higher requirements for pollutant discharge, energy conservation and consumption reduction entering a development bottleneck period, and low-carbon transformation facing multiple tasks and goals. Facing new situations and new challenges, my country's iron and steel industry must face up to difficulties, strengthen confidence, work together, unswervingly continue to carry out ultra-low emission transformation, and strive to build the world's largest clean steel production base.
The first step in the new low-carbon journey
According to the "China Iron and Steel Industry Low-Carbon Technology Roadmap", the key tasks mainly include: deepening the supply-side structural reform, continuously optimizing the process structure, innovatively developing low-carbon technology, creating a green and low-carbon industrial chain, and strengthening the global low-carbon industry. Carbon industry innovation cooperation. Fan Tiejun, deputy secretary of the party committee and president of the Metallurgical Industry Planning and Research Institute, introduced that my country's iron and steel industry has carried out pollution reduction and carbon reduction from the source, system, and intelligence, and has taken the first step in a new low-carbon journey. Among them, the source is to play the synergistic effect of source emission reduction, the system is to give full play to the advantages of system synergy, and intelligence is to intelligently improve the level of pollution reduction and carbon reduction.
Liu Bingjiang said that my country's iron and steel industry's ultra-low emission transformation, a major air pollution prevention and control project, will force steel companies to merge and reorganize, upgrade equipment, improve the overall green and low-carbon development level of the steel industry, and help leverage the effective social Investment and stable economic growth are important starting points for promoting the "dual carbon" work at present, and are also important measures to properly handle the relationship between development and emission reduction.
The realization of my country's "dual carbon" goal is an extensive and profound systemic change, and the green and low-carbon transformation of the steel industry needs to be jointly promoted by all parties. Xiong Zhe, director of the Department of Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection of the National Development and Reform Commission, believes that facing the goal of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, the steel industry should adhere to goal-oriented and problem-oriented, and firmly follow the high-quality development path of ecological priority, green and low carbon , firmly grasp the opportunities of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and actively and steadily promote green and low-carbon transformation. Therefore, the steel industry needs to continue to deepen supply-side structural reforms, further promote energy conservation and carbon reduction, build green energy flows and industrial chains, and promote coordinated industrial chain carbon reduction.
Changing "danger" into "opportunity"
At present, the pace of survival of the fittest in the steel market is accelerating, and the competitiveness gap among enterprises is becoming more and more obvious. Therefore, the more they are in the low period of the industry, the more steel companies should work hard to improve their comprehensive competitiveness, take the crisis as an opportunity, and turn pressure into motivation.
He Wenbo believes that market pressure will promote the collaborative research and development of common technologies in the environmental technology and engineering industries, and promote the popularization and application of mature technologies, thus turning "danger" into "opportunity". my country's iron and steel enterprises must pass the evaluation to achieve the overall optimization of technical solutions and project progress, and the government must further optimize policy orientation, strengthen rewards and punishments, and promote the survival of the fittest. Among them, "two promotions" are positive effects that may be brought about by market shocks, and "two optimizations" (optimizing implementation plans and optimizing policy orientation) are necessary measures to realize and strengthen such effects.
Experts said that there is no shortcut for steel ultra-low emission transformation, and there is no efficient and low-cost technology. Enterprises that are undergoing ultra-low emission transformation or preparing for ultra-low emission transformation should learn from advanced enterprises. At present, my country's iron and steel enterprises have made great efforts and invested a lot of money to carry out comprehensive upgrading and transformation in clean production, clean transportation, monitoring and monitoring, etc., and a large number of garden-style factories have emerged, which has greatly changed the society's understanding of iron and steel enterprises. (Meng Fanjun)
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