Debut of modified methanol fuel Opens "new track" of energy consumption Revolution
-- Documentation of system innovation green and low carbon technology products of Zhongmaohua Energy Investment Co., LTD
Chen Maogao delivers keynote speech at 2021 China New Energy Industry Economic Annual Conference (courtesy of ZhongMaohua Energy Investment Co., LTD.)
Energy and environment are major challenges facing the world in the 21st century. At present, China has taken a series of major measures to promote high-quality development of the energy sector, such as establishing a diversified supply system, promoting energy technology revolution and industrial upgrading. This has brought new momentum to the strategy of energy security and "carbon peak" and "carbon neutrality". In the field of energy technology revolution, the successful development of advanced methanol fuel technology and products has important and practical significance. With the attributes and advantages of alternative energy, it is expected to alleviate or even change China's dependence on foreign oil, enhance the ability of energy independent security, and build a "break" and "reshape" for energy consumption transformation and green low-carbon environment.
□ Seo Guk-shin
The ancient Greek physicist Archimedes has a classic saying: "Give me a fulcrum, I can tilt the whole earth." This sentence can also be understood as: as long as the method is right, the right time, a fulcrum will also erupt amazing energy, change or even disrupt the industry pattern.
By China Maohua Energy Investment Co., LTD., Guangdong Guoxin Maohua New Energy Development Co., LTD has national independent intellectual property rights of the modified methanol fuel "core mother liquor" five invention patents, because of the originality, tested quality and unusual application value, fame is growing, in the "energy circle of friends" to win more and more popular flow and voice, It also brings new solutions and choices that can be trusted and relied on for energy development.
Methanol fuel "core mother liquor" was born under the belief of Chen Maogao, chief scientist and chairman of ZhongMaohua Energy Investment Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as "ZhongMaohua Energy") who adhered to "science and technology is the first productive force". He led the technical team to carry out a long and arduous research, and finally achieved a major breakthrough in energy technology. He is well aware that the development and transformation of the world's science and technology, as well as the competition in science and technology, remind people that "key core technologies cannot be acquired, bought or acquired, and must be kept in our own hands."
Some observers say that advanced energy technology products are directly facing the main battlefield of the Chinese economy and major national needs. Only a single individual or a collective can develop slowly. We must make joint efforts from top to bottom to seize the development opportunities of The Times and make them better and faster to find their use.
Methanol Fuels open a "new track" for energy Development
There is no doubt that the national pursuit of "diversified energy development" is the right path and direction to practice the "two mountains" theory and the "two carbon" goal.
As early as 2019, eight ministries and commissions jointly issued the Guidelines on the Application of methanol in Automobiles in some regions, officially introducing methanol fuel to the automobile industry and consumer market. "The application of methanol in vehicles should be accelerated to diversify vehicle fuel and ensure energy security," the guideline said. Focus on Shanxi, Shaanxi, Guizhou, Gansu and other regions with good resource endowment conditions and experience in methanol vehicle operation to accelerate the application of M100 methanol vehicle." This can be seen as a strong signal to promote diversified development of energy resources.
In November 2020, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment issued the "Measurement Methods for Emission of Unconventional Pollutants of Methanol Fuel Vehicles"; In December 2020, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the Notice on Adjusting the Relevant Requirements for the admission of Methanol-fueled Automobile Products, marking the further improvement of laws and regulations on methanol-fueled automobiles. In addition, as the Ministry of Ecology and Environment officially opened the announcement port, methanol vehicles of Geely and other enterprises meeting the National VI emission standards began to be put on the market, indicating that methanol vehicles officially entered the market promotion stage.
Chen Maogao said that methanol is very suitable for ignition and compression combustion engines and methanol vehicles, methanol extended range electric trucks and industrial boilers, furnaces, kilns, power generation, civil fuel promotion and application. It is another important measure to implement the national action on energy conservation and emission reduction, and achieve "carbon peak" and "carbon neutrality". New energy methanol vehicles and methanol extended range electric trucks will lead the world.
Some people may ask, how on earth is methanol "refined"? It is understood that the sources of methanol are extensive and rich in resources. The use of high sulfur coal, inferior coal, coal gangue, natural gas, coke oven gas, oil gas mixed with gas to produce methanol, the technology has been very mature, really achieved the clean utilization of coal. With the rapid breakthrough of science and technology, the mature technology of carbon dioxide recovery and hydrogenation to produce methanol has emerged. At the same time using straw, twigs, bagasse, weeds, poultry manure, municipal waste, mud and other biomass methanol production mature technology is ready for development.
It can be said that renewable energy sources cause the emergence of methanol in an endless and continuous development; Inexhaustible, for the development of new energy opened up a "new channel" "new track".
"The modified methanol fuel can be adapted to a wide range of applications. The original refueling stations and skid loading stations can be widely and comprehensively used to fill modified methanol fuel, which can effectively replace the traditional gasoline and diesel, as well as industrial and civil fuels. It is not only a solution to the energy crisis, but also an urgent need to protect the environment, benefit mankind and realize the blue Chinese Dream." Chen said the use of technology to promote cleaner energy can greatly reduce harmful gas emissions from automobiles, ships, industrial boilers, furnaces, kilns, power generation, civil use and other sectors. In addition, China Maohua through technological innovation, the manufacture of modified methanol gasification and cracking burner matching modified methanol fuel used in thermal power plants to generate electricity, completely can remove coal-fired power generation is called "black electricity" hat, so that it becomes the true sense of "green electricity".
As Liu Ke, dean of the School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Southern University of Science and Technology and a foreign member of the Australian Academy of Engineering, said, "The key to reducing carbon is to change the energy structure." "With green methanol, the automotive internal combustion engine has the opportunity to become a green energy power and achieve low carbon emissions. More importantly, if a large scale energy system using green methanol as a feedstock is used, less than a fifth of the carbon emissions of today's coal economy can be achieved, solving China's electricity, transportation, heating and cooling problems."
Modified methanol "core mother liquor" to achieve product quality
Chinachem energy modified methanol generation of the most important core technology, is independent innovation, won the invention patent gold technology of the "core mother liquor".
The production of modified methanol fuel "core mother liquor" is a physicochemical reaction using biological chemical raw materials, normal temperature and pressure, no waste water, waste gas, waste residue, quantifiable production, and rich resources, production quantification is guaranteed. The "core mother liquor" was modified with methanol to produce low, medium and high proportions of methanol gasoline and methanol fuel and other series products of different proportions for effective replacement. It can adapt to the use of different models and vehicles with different displacement in the market without changing the car, and can be used smoothly in a variety of extreme climate, plateau hypoxia and complex road environment. It fundamentally solves eight worldwide technical problems, such as "lack of power, high fuel consumption, high temperature gas resistance, low temperature startup difficulty, moisture absorption stratification, metal corrosion, rubber swelling, engine wear, poor stability", which are common in modified methanol steam and diesel fuel.
It is understood that the "core mother liquor" has quite a point of view, it is the joint action of eight kinds of composite agent mechanism, such as heating value enhancement agent, anti-gas resistance agent, low temperature starter agent, anti-water agent, anti-corrosion agent, anti-swelling agent, anti-wear agent and antioxidant.
For example, the calorific value of methanol is low, only 4650 CAL, accounting for about 45% of the calorific value of gasoline, but its potential heat of gasification is high, about 3 times that of gasoline. Theoretically, with the increase of methanol blending ratio, the calorific value of mixed fuel will gradually decrease, resulting in decreased engine power and higher fuel consumption. The calorific value of methanol is a static parameter, while the work done by combustion is a dynamic process. As long as the combustion speed of fuel can be improved, on the one hand, it is completely possible to modify methanol steam and diesel without reducing power or increasing fuel consumption by making full use of the collision of raw material molecules to generate high heat energy. On the other hand, the active component in the calorific value agent of "core mother liquor" has catalytic cracking function. The calorific value agent activates the molecular bond of methanol through electron transfer with valence variable central ions, and the hydrogen and carbon monoxide generated from partial decomposition of methanol can release much higher heat than the uncracked methanol. The calorific value agent also has the function of carrying oxygen, which contributes to the further complete combustion of raw materials, speeds up the flame propagation speed of methanol steam diesel and methanol fuel, shorens the main combustion period and ignition delay period, forms a higher temperature and pressure in a short time, and has higher thermal efficiency, thus improving the power and reducing the fuel consumption.
For example, because methanol is a polar substance, it does not dissolve the oil, but destroys the oil. When methanol steam and diesel and methanol fuel gas are burned and compressed in the engine cylinder to do work, the gas and oil gap of the piston ring will penetrate methanol gas into the crankcase and the oil is shallows mixed with the oil, which is easy to make the oil break chain to form phase separation, reduce viscosity and oil lubrication performance, directly affect the engine lubrication, leading to early damage of the engine. In order to prevent methanol gas from destroying the lubrication effect and promote the anti-wear effect, the composition of mother liquor is equipped with lipid lubricant, and then added into the fuel oil to play a protective role, so as to achieve the effect of anti-wear and promote lubrication.
According to Chen Maogao, methanol steam diesel and methanol fuel technology make various key components in the "core mother liquor" compatible with each other through scientific compatibility, while solving problems and improving performance. This is a comprehensive core technology. If the core technology is applied to various proportions of methanol steam and diesel and methanol fuel, the overall performance of modified methanol steam and diesel and modified methanol fuel can be effectively improved and enhanced, so that it can truly become an efficient and low-carbon fuel that can fully replace gasoline and diesel.
Six advantages highlight potential value
The six advantages of the "core mother liquor" product project and its innovation point lie in changing the nature of methanol fuel through physical and chemical reaction adjustment, so that it can meet or exceed the performance requirements of national standard gasoline in the aspects of combustion propagation speed, latent heat of vaporization, knock resistance, acceleration, water resistance, frost resistance, air resistance, corrosion resistance, swelling resistance, wear resistance, stability and so on.
Strong momentum. The comparison test between the modified methanol steam and diesel and the modified methanol fuel and the national standard 93# gasoline shows that the modified methanol steam and diesel can fully meet the power needs of the engine with high power, strong power and low fuel consumption, thus greatly improving the use value of the modified methanol steam and diesel and the modified methanol fuel.
Don't change the car. There is no need to change any parts of the engine. Non-corrosion and non-swelling auto parts and transmission and distribution devices can be mixed with the national standard steam and diesel or used interchangeably or separately, which greatly facilitates the storage, transportation and filling of modified methanol steam and diesel and modified methanol fuel without adding any additional equipment.
Protect the engine and extend its service life. According to the lubricity investigation of Denso's durability real vehicle test, the engine running 108,000 km and 66,000 km with modified methanol gasoline with low proportion reduced wear by 28.2%, respectively.
Combustion fully reduces emissions. Methanol is the simplest monoalcohol, containing only one carbon, four hydrogens, and one oxygen. Free of sulfur, benzene, butadiene, aromatics and so on. There are only 3 types of harmful components in the emissions. However, gasoline and diesel are high carbon and anaerobic fuels, and their emissions contain 8 kinds of harmful components and 21 components. The emission of diesel oil contains 23 harmful components of 8 kinds. As gasoline and diesel are multi-carbon and anoxic fuels, inadequate combustion causes environmental pollution and fuel waste, which is the lack of molecular structure brought by gasoline and diesel. Methanol is recognized as a clean fuel in the world energy sector. The modified methanol fuel "core mother liquor" has a strong fast-burning progressive effect, which can greatly inhibit the formation and emission of formaldehyde gas, which is an intermediate product of unburned methanol, when the engine is cold started. Methanol and diesel are not miscible, only adding "core mother liquor" can miscible and modify, the three molecular structure of the infinite miscible, and promote the change of their properties to achieve the purpose of reducing emissions. Conventional and unconventional emissions of modified methanol steam and diesel fuel are greatly reduced compared with the national standard steam and diesel fuel, and the effect of energy saving and emission reduction is very significant.
Good economic benefits. The use of modified methanol steam diesel and modified methanol fuel is more obvious than the national standard steam diesel economically, which can reduce the cost by more than 40%-60%.
Security is better. Methanol is flammable but not explosive. Its vapor density is lower, slightly greater than the density of air, easy to diffuse flow. The flash point of methanol is 4.8 times higher than that of gasoline. As a result, methanol fuel is much less likely to explode in a fire than gasoline. For this reason, international Formula One racing cars all choose methanol fuel as a safe, economic and environmental protection fuel. When methanol is spilled on the ground, microorganisms in the soil degrade it quickly, while gasoline takes a long time to degrade. When methanol is thrown into the water, it can purify the water without causing water pollution. Fire in methanol fuel can be put out with water, but gasoline cannot. Methanol is less dangerous than gasoline and safer than gasoline in transportation, storage and use. Methanol is chemically less toxic than gasoline and diesel, and even less toxic than diesel.
Studies have shown that people are exposed to methanol from a variety of sources, Dr. Chen noted. Not only does methanol occur naturally in the human body, but it is also commonly exposed through air, water and food. Food is the main source of methanol exposure in the general population. Methanol is widely found in human foods, such as fresh fruits, vegetables and beverages (such as fruit juice, beer, wine, liquor), as well as sweeteners and food additives and sweeteners such as DMDC (dimethyl dialkylate).
A sweetener is an artificial sweetener, and DMDC is a fermentation inhibitor used in tea drinks, sports drinks, fruit or sparkling juices, wine and wine substitutes. Both additives are converted to methanol when digested. Methanol content in food and beverages: fresh juice and canned juice contain 1-43 mg/l of methanol, orange juice contains 11-80 mg/l of methanol, grape and grapefruit juice contain 12-640 mg/l of methanol, fruit juices have an average of 140 mg/l of methanol; Beer 6-27 mg/l, wine 96-329 mg/l, legumes 1.5-7.9 mg/kg, carbonated beverages 56 mg/l of methanol. Cigarette smoke also contains methanol vapor, 180 micrograms per cigarette. Therefore, methanol is not highly toxic, compared with gasoline and diesel is much less toxic.
With the progress of science and technology, it has been reported that the production of human protein from methanol is expected to come into being. The practice of selling and using methanol at home and abroad also proves that methanol is safe and controllable to human body according to the standard operation, and no occupational disease patients have ever been found among front-line workers in the methanol production industry.
Move forward to speed up the pace of industrialization and marketization
China is a big consumer of automobiles. According to the 2021 National Economic and Social Development Statistical Communique released by the National Bureau of Statistics, by the end of 2021, there were 301.51 million civil automobiles (including 7.32 million three-wheeled vehicles and low-speed trucks), an increase of 20.64 million over the end of the previous year. It has been proved that the economic indexes of modified methanol gasoline and modified methanol fuel are more obvious than those of national standard gasoline, and the cost of modified methanol fuel can be more than doubled compared with that of national standard gasoline.
Methanol fuel has also been professionally recognized for its application in many fields of global energy, and has been applied in large ships, automobiles and other fields. Currently, European gasoline standards already allow the addition of 3% methanol; India, Israel and other countries have the national standard of M15 low proportion methanol gasoline; Brazil and Italy blend methanol and ethanol into gasoline to form A20 motor fuel; American Formula cars used methanol fuel in the early 1950s. Last year, the United States successfully flew methanol fuel fighter jets into high altitude. At present, more and more countries in the world reshuffle and start to actively explore the use of high clean and high oxygen methanol fuel in automobiles, aircraft and ships to realize the effective replacement of traditional fuel.
In recent years, China vigorously promotes the clean energy diversification strategy, methanol as a potential clean energy, has been widely used in the methanol automobile, heavy truck, aircraft, ships and other transportation fields as well as industrial boilers, furnaces, stoves and other industrial and civil fields, pilot projects around methanol fuel are also increasing.
To Chen's pride, Its technical products have passed the National Center for Quality Supervision and Inspection of Petroleum and Petrochemical Products (Huizhou), the State Key Laboratory of Beijing Institute of Technology, National Chang 'an University, National Center for Quality Supervision and Inspection of Automotive Ethanol and Gasoline, China Petrochemical Testing and Research Institute, Shenzhen Metrology and Quality Testing Institute, Nanjing Metrology and Quality Testing Institute, and International SGS Test, Japan Denso Shanghai Technology Center and other authoritative departments of a series of indicators performance test, bench test and road test all-round standards. This has been praised and recognized by Japan, Spain and other international famous automobile manufacturers, and has been favored by ASEAN, Europe and the United States. Technical performance has reached the international leading level.
The company's technical products have participated in the domestic product quality competition organized by the same industry for many times, PK, and the competition results are among the best. The product also passed the demonstration of high-tech products by Jiangsu Science and Technology Department and obtained the certificate of "high-tech products".
In March 2021, Guangdong Guoxin Zhongmaohua New Energy Development Co., Ltd. and Jiangmen Honglida New Energy Co., Ltd. were selected as the formulation units of "Four Group Standards for Modified Methanol" of China Energy Research Society, and Chen Maogao was appointed as the standard drafter and chief editor of standard formulation. In December of the same year, "modified methanol fuel for industrial use, modified methanol fuel for civil use, modified methanol fuel for ignition engine, modified methanol fuel for compression combustion engine" four standards have been hung on the net and publicized, February 23 this year by the China Energy Research Institute organized by the expert review group review was unanimously approved, only to be the final approval of the China Energy Research Institute.
Chen Maogao said that a series of qualifications and honors obtained by the company are not only the important embodiment of the country's development of scientific and technological innovation, the promotion of scientific and technological progress, and the transformation of science and technology into productivity, but also the encouragement and spur of government agencies and industry organizations at all levels to us. These products after years of market use and practice show that the technology is mature, the quality is stable, can fully reach the industrialization stage.
"Energy revolution two carbon paved the way, return to nature for the benefit of thousands of years. The grand state policy is far-sighted, and the 'two Mountains' oasis is a new map." Chen Maogao wrote such lines to express his feelings. At present, for Chen Maogao and the entity production enterprises controlled by him, the most urgent thing is to do everything possible to transform the core technology into productivity, expand the production scale, and make the modified methanol fuel create due ecological, economic and social benefits.
We believe that there is a good national policy support, a good business environment, scientific and technological innovation ability and talent platform advantage, the development of Chinachem energy, Guangdong Guoxin Chinachem new energy can accelerate, so as to bring new ideas, new models, new examples for China's energy production and consumption revolution, bring another important fulcrum for the high quality of economic development.