Take methanol industry as the starting point to lead the "agriculture, industry and finance" integration innovation action
-- The development layout and practice path of the team of Maohua Energy Investment Co., LTD
Chen Maogao delivered a keynote speech at the 2021 China New Energy Industry Economic Annual Conference
In the powerful lineup of energy development, green methanol fuel is a "new force" and "potential stock" that cannot be ignored. Especially in recent years, as the country has a deep understanding of the "broad prospect of methanol alternative energy" and strengthened top-level design and macro-control, a series of policies and measures with clear directions and specific contents have been introduced from the central to local governments to promote the development of the methanol industry and the application of methanol in automobiles, so as to achieve energy security, energy conservation and emission reduction, achieve the "dual carbon" goal and even promote the rural revitalization strategy. Inject new growth drivers and create new opportunities.
In the practice of the new strategic actions of energy security, Zhongmaohua Energy Investment Co., LTD., with advanced methanol fuel technology and innovative products, plays a leading role in the development of the industry. The "agriculture, industry and finance" integrated innovation action plan with methanol as engine lever researched and designed by the innovation and development team has a high starting point, solid settling point, clear objectives, tasks and practical roadmap, operability and promotion, and will provide another important "new engine" for the healthy development of the economy and society.
□ Seo Guk-shin
"The sea is boundless and the sky is shore, and I am the peak of the mountain." This sentence shows the standing, mind and courage to accomplish things, including indomitable momentum and the confidence and determination to give up who I am. And this is also the wonderful interpretation of Chen Maogao, the chief scientist and chairman of ZhongMaohua Energy Investment Co., LTD., and the innovative development team.
In the important historical convergence period of the unpredictable world energy landscape and the steady implementation of China's new energy security strategy, the team of Chen Maogao is deeply proud of something -- they firmly grasp the historical trend of China's energy revolution and development, act according to the trend, move forward bravely and bravely, and assume the social responsibility of an energy technology enterprise. They have caught up with the pace of The Times to improve the new nationwide system of tackling critical problems with key core technologies, so that their core technologies and innovative products can "gather the strength of the whole world". They stand in the "tuyere" of the development of green methanol industry, and use this to drive and activate the integration and innovation of "agriculture, industry and finance", and strive to play the multiplier effect and chain effect of an industry......
Follow the trend and be successful
Breakthrough in green methanol key core technology
China is a big country with a large population, but also a big industrial country. As our oil reserves are not enough to support the needs of economic and social development, we can only rely on oil purchasing this way. According to relevant statistics, the country's dependence on foreign oil exceeded the warning line of 70 percent. After surpassing 500 million tons in 2019, the net import of crude oil has remained at a high level, reaching 510 million tons in 2021, an increase of 90.0 percent over 2012 and an average annual increase of 7.4 percent.
Facing the severe situation of energy supply and demand, it is necessary to establish a multi-supply system and promote the revolution of energy production and consumption and energy technology.
It has been proved that methanol, with its attributes and advantages as an alternative energy source, 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 the transformation of energy consumption and green and low-carbon environment.
With an insight into the important position and broad prospect of methanol in the development of national economy, the team of Chen Maogao has adhered to the new practice of green development concept for many years, brought together many like-minded teams to practice industrial service to the country, committed to methanol technology innovation, promote the development of methanol industry, and build a new platform for methanol cooperation and a new demonstration of methanol economy.
It is understood that China Maohua Energy Investment Co., LTD., Guangdong Guoxin Maohua New Energy Development Co., Ltd. has national independent intellectual property rights of modified methanol fuel "core mother liquor" five patented inventions. And the most important core technology for the generation of modified methanol is "core mother liquor".
The related testing data and appraisal results show that the production of the modified methanol fuel "core mother liquor" adopts the physicochemical reaction of biological chemical raw materials, at normal temperature and pressure, without waste water, waste gas and waste slag, which can be quantified production, and the resources are rich, and the quantification of production is guaranteed. The modification of "core mother liquor" with methanol can effectively replace the series products with low, medium and high proportions of methanol gasoline and methanol fuel, which can adapt to the use of different models and vehicles with different displacement in the market without changing cars, and can be used smoothly in various extreme climate, plateau hypoxia and complex road environment. This fundamentally solves eight worldwide technical problems, such as "lack of power and high fuel consumption, high temperature gas resistance, low temperature starting difficulty, moisture absorption stratification, metal corrosion, rubber swelling, engine wear, poor stability", which are prevalent in modified methanol gasoline and diesel fuel, making it truly an efficient and low-carbon fuel that can comprehensively replace gasoline and diesel.
The company's 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, International SGS Testing, Japan Denso Shanghai Technology Center and other authoritative departments of a series of indicators of performance testing, bench test and road test all-round standards. This has been Japan, Spain, Vietnam, Madagascar, North Korea and other international famous automobile manufacturers praise and recognition, and by ASEAN, Europe and the United States of America. 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".
Liquid Sunlight
Create a period of strategic energy reserve opportunity
In 2008, 29 academicians' Suggestions on transforming strategic energy reserve concepts -- supplementing Resource reserves with Functional reserves, and in 2017, the Outline for the Development of Liquid Sunshine Economy, written by Bai Chunli, then president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. At the same time, the physical and chemical characteristics, marketability, economy, finance and operability of methanol were systematically, deeply and comprehensively studied and thought. Experts believe that methanol, as "liquid sunlight", has dual natural properties of "raw material and fuel". It has not only formed a large scale of traditional industrial raw material industry, but also opened up a new application industry of low-carbon green fuel.
When it comes to the source of oil, many people are familiar with it. But when it comes to the source of methanol, it can be surprising and eye-opening for many. Methanol is a renewable energy source of biomass. Like sunlight, it is renewable, recyclable, inexhaustible and has a wide range of raw materials. Its sources include fossil energy such as coal, natural gas, coke gas and coal bed methane, as well as agricultural biomass, crop stalks, tree branches and leaves and other wastes as well as urban and rural wastes. Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, can even be recycled from industrial waste gas and the air to produce methanol through "carbon neutrality".
According to Chen's team, methanol is not only widely available, but also surprisingly powerful. First, methanol as a fuel can replace oil, gas, coal, electricity and other traditional energy applications in almost all fields. In the field of transportation: methanol can replace steam, diesel, etc., and can be used as power fuel in all vehicles such as cars, heavy trucks, ships and aircraft on land, sea and air. In the industrial field, methanol can be used as industrial boilers and kilns, agricultural machinery and tools in rural areas, flue-cured tobacco, vegetable greenhouses and other agricultural products drying processing, industrial machinery and other power fuel; In commercial and civil fields, methanol can be used as thermal fuel for warm heating such as stoves and boilers. Second, methanol is the most important basic chemical raw material, with nearly 30 kinds of disposable processed products and hundreds of derivative products, widely used in chemical industry, building materials, medicine, pesticides, dyes, pigments and other industries. Third, methanol protein produced by microbial fermentation of methanol, rich in amino acids, vitamins and proteins, has the advantages of high nutritional value and low cost, and can be used to replace fish meal, soybean, bone meal, etc., for livestock, poultry and fish feeding. Fourth, methanol is the best raw material for hydrogen production at present. Through the integration of "methanol reforming hydrogen production technology" and "fuel cell power generation technology", it can break through the bottleneck of safety technology such as "production, storage, transportation and charging" of hydrogen and solve the cost economy problem. It is the most effective way to vigorously develop hydrogen energy and has a broad market prospect.
In particular, it is worth mentioning that methanol is clean and pollution-free like sunlight, and almost does not emit nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur oxides, volatile organic matter particles, benzene, butadiene and other carcinogenic substances. It is recognized by the world as a clean new alternative fossil energy for 100 years. Methanol has a single component, stable performance, and is not easy to go bad in long-term storage. It can be safely stored, transported and refilled at normal temperature and pressure on a large scale. With its renewable, clean and environmental protection properties, methanol is incomparable to other energy sources. Therefore, more than 20 academicians jointly suggested the construction of methanol strategic reserve in order to ensure national energy security.
Lead "agriculture, industry and finance"
Integrated innovation action
It is the vision and ambition of Chen Maogao's team to drive the breakthrough and layout of domestic methanol industry, and to generate and trigger new business forms and new driving forces with green methanol innovation technology and products as the starting point.
Liu Zifu, former deputy director of Sichuan Provincial Development and Reform Commission and member of the Decision-making Advisory Committee of Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and provincial government, based on the concern and in-depth research and judgment of the methanol industry, led the preparation of an Action Plan for the integration and Innovation of Agriculture, Industry and Finance with lofty intention and specific measures. The plan pointed out that Methanol, through its six characteristics of "raw material recycling, scale storage, low carbon safety, extensive marketability, huge industry, and financial bearing", leverages "agriculture, rural areas and farmers", links industry, drives commerce, and integrates finance. It has powerful energy to drive the "coordinated development of agriculture and industry" and irreplaceable comprehensive advantages to help realize the "three national strategies". It can form the engine leverage function and function of "big consumption, big market, big participation, big industry, bearing big finance".
In Liu Zifu's opinion, methanol not only has a large volume and scale, but also the industrial scale driven by methanol is even larger. Our country is the largest country in methanol production and consumption. At present, the domestic methanol chemical industry consumes nearly 60 million tons of methanol annually, and the upstream and downstream of the methanol chemical industry alone reaches the scale of one trillion yuan.
According to the calculation of experts of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the methanol fuel market scale is about 9 times that of the methanol chemical market, so it can be estimated that the methanol fuel market demand scale can reach 500 million tons/year, the market scale effect can exceed one trillion yuan, and the domestic demand of related industries can also exceed 50 trillion yuan. It can build a highly intelligent new energy industrial cluster system integrating "production, supply and marketing + production, university, research and application + energy conversion common rail".
In addition, energy security is related to the security of the country and people's livelihood, so it cannot be evaluated according to the economy of general product projects. Instead, methanol energy or the technical route of methanol production through biomass should be evaluated with other kinds of energy by means of "whole life cycle" and national economic evaluation. If the influencing factors should be considered: first, exchange rate risk and benefit. Every year, the country uses USD 300 billion to import oil and natural gas. Losses caused by uncontrollable international oil prices and losses caused by dollar exchange rate risks; Second, environmental governance benefits. For pollution caused by fossil energy, the state's annual investment in pollution control; Third, public health benefits. Haze and particulate matter brought by the use of fossil energy oil and coal are harmful to people's health. The national health insurance implemented by the state is the annual expenditure of national health insurance. Fourth, the benefit of subsidies for agriculture, rural areas and farmers. Every year, the state directly supports and subsidize "agriculture, rural areas and farmers". For example, the use of rural biomass to produce methanol will drive agriculture, rural areas and farmers to directly participate in the production and consumption of methanol, and promote the development of agriculture, rural areas and farmers. Fifth, cost advantage benefit. According to the economic analysis of pilot methanol vehicles by the state, the methanol consumption per 100 kilometers of vehicles is 35.19 yuan, and the gasoline consumption is about 70 yuan. The end-user price of each ton of labeled gasoline is about 8000 yuan, and the end-user price of each ton of methanol is only 3000 to 4000 yuan. Sixth, energy efficiency and efficiency. Methanol has a high energy density, and methanol boilers are 20% more cost-effective than electric boilers and gas-fired boilers, which has economic rationality as a functional resource reserve.
To sum up, the natural, market and social attributes of methanol, especially the scale, dispersed storage and public participation, determine that methanol can form a large consumption and thus a large participation. With large participation, a large market can be formed, a large industry can be formed, and a large finance can be borne. It has the significant international financial value of issuing funds, bonds and futures. This is wind, solar, water and other new energy incomparable unique advantages.
It is understood that the ideas, methods and measures of Chen Maogao's team to develop green methanol industry are mainly reflected in the following aspects:
First of all, a new methanol green energy system was constructed to open up a new methanol development mode. In accordance with the strategic thinking of "one chess game for the whole country and one net for the whole world", we will help build the national methanol energy reserve system and build an enterprise management and operation platform with the value and function of "national methanol economic incubator". Support the construction of a national methanol technology research and industrial development research center to incubate and cultivate new technologies, products, industries and business forms of the methanol industry; To construct and develop methanol energy industry cluster, through the mixed reform, unify the superior resources of 18 methanol industry, such as technology, market and equipment, to concentrate on the platform for organization and integration. Based on the transport and distribution system formed by methanol green energy storage and filling stations covering the whole country, the industrial chain is extended in its downstream to incubate and cultivate new business forms of methanol green energy economy. In the upstream of the transport and distribution system, promote the research and development of methanol and other green energy technologies and products, and accelerate the promotion of new products and technologies; To develop new agricultural forms of methanol green energy and realize the integrated development of methanol green energy and "agriculture, rural areas and farmers"; To develop new industrial forms of methanol green energy and strengthen the construction of methanol green energy equipment manufacturing and product production capacity; To develop new service forms of methanol green energy, open up service channels, broaden service fields and improve service quality, so as to become an important pillar industry of the national economy.
Second, we should build a large energy security platform with the participation of all people. First of all, "national consumption" is advocated to let methanol into thousands of households to participate in investment and consumption, so as to realize the purpose of consumption savings and build a community of common destiny. Secondly, it aims to "conserve alcohol among the people" by allowing hundreds of millions of urban and rural households to participate in methanol storage, building large-scale methanol storage centers at the provincial and county levels, increasing the scale of methanol storage to hundreds of millions of tons in stages and batches, opening international futures of methanol, and establishing a new international methanol energy pattern denominated in RMB.
Third, incubate and cultivate methanol industry clusters in China. At present, the team has integrated and selectively organized 18 companies and enterprises in the country that are related to the integrated innovation and development industry of "agriculture, industry and finance" and have methanol fuel and supporting advanced independent intellectual property core technology and equipment as well as high-quality assets. The team has the potential and vitality of innovation. We will build new technologies, new drivers and new forms of business that integrate and innovate the development of "agriculture, industry and finance", and promote the implementation of the action plan through innovation chain, integration of industrial chain and construction of capital chain.
Finally, we will help implement the rural revitalization strategy. We will design action plans and set up supporting systems around the issues of agriculture, rural areas and farmers, such as "rural revitalization" and "no one should be left behind on the road to a moderately prosperous society." We will continue to focus on solving problems related to agriculture, rural areas and farmers, as well as basic problems at the community level, and give high priority to increasing rural income through employment and investment, and addressing food security and the quality and safety of agricultural products. We should start by helping farmers open up channels to increase their income, and start by addressing the safety of seeds, pesticides, fertilizers and soil. We should design targeted solutions and take concrete actions. To solve the problem of farmers' income, agricultural product quality and safety, with the national strategy of agricultural security, energy security organic combination, and through equity design and profit distribution, the Party's purpose of "wholeheartedly serve the people", "common prosperity" thought, into the farmers visible and tangible interests. In this way, it is conducive to the formation of the ideological basis of the development of methanol industry with one heart and one mind and the promotion of rural revitalization.
From a practical point of view, methanol conversion can comprehensively solve the problems of contracted land, homestead, mountain forest and "four wasteland" resources that cannot be turned into assets, assets that cannot be monetized, currency that cannot be equity and securitization, and solve the problems of farmers begging for a golden rice, land abandoned and idle, and high-efficiency planting, so that farmers can return to the countryside and settle down in agriculture.
Relying on the methanol industry to promote the integrated development of "agriculture, industry and finance", let farmers through production cooperation and industrial cooperation, develop the "one village, one product", "one township, one characteristic", "one county, one economy" of the genuine medicinal materials, geographical indications, local characteristics of advantageous agricultural products, change the problem of scattered agricultural production, product and farmers, solve the problem of agricultural production efficiency and sales. The problem of quality and safety is not guaranteed.
Action plan
Take advantage of national policy
At present, the team of Chen Maogao has created a set of management system and operation mechanism, taking methanol as the fulcrum, promoting the integrated development mode of "agriculture, industry and finance", using the ownership structure and distribution mechanism of "rich in the people" to activate civil power, private capital and private wisdom, integrate government enterprises and social resources, and implement the integrated development of methanol industry and rural revitalization.
The action plan designed by the team has solved the problem of organized production of agricultural products. First of all, by establishing a big data system for production and marketing of agricultural products and cooperating with relevant government departments, the "management system and operation mechanism" combining planned production of agricultural products with market regulation and supply will be designed and established, and the structure of agricultural products will be optimized through both planning and market. Secondly, through the mode of "agriculture, industry and finance", taking advantage of big data, big platforms, big technology, big companies and big capital, and through the innovation of management system, completely solve the supply channels and methods of seeds, pesticides, fertilizers and other means of production. Comprehensively and comprehensively solve the quality and safety problems at the source of agricultural products caused by pollution of seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, soil and water. Third, the "agriculture, industry and finance" platform takes advantage of modern communication and network to realize point-to-point accurate connection of straight-line consumption, so that farmers will not leave their homes, so that farmers want to plant and feel secure in planting, so that the import of agricultural products consumption is safer and more reliable.
In addition, we should improve the industrial chain of agricultural products, extend the value chain of agricultural products, and realize value innovation of agricultural products. It is shown in the design scheme of the team that, based on rural areas and centered on counties, counties, towns and villages will jointly establish an "agricultural, industrial and financial integrated development platform to solve the problems of primary processing, deep processing and systematic processing of agricultural products, fully realize the one-stop service of production, processing, storage, logistics and sales of agricultural products, and maximize the efficiency of resource allocation. We will launch a new model of improving quality, conserving energy, reducing consumption and increasing income.
In recent years, the state has given unprecedented support to the development of methanol industry. As early as 2019, eight departments of the State jointly issued the Guidelines on the Application of methanol in some Areas, formally introducing methanol fuel to the automobile industry and consumer market, and proposing that "it is necessary to accelerate the application of methanol in automobiles, achieve vehicle fuel diversification, and ensure energy security. 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."
All parts of the country actively respond to the national policy, strong focus on the development and application of methanol. In March this year, 17 units such as Guizhou Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Department of Transportation jointly issued the notice of Several Policy Measures to Support the promotion and application of methanol vehicles in the province, proposing to adhere to the goal-oriented efforts to increase the promotion and application work, and strive to achieve 2.05 million methanol vehicles in the province by the end of 2022, and build 82 methanol fuel filling stations for vehicles. By the end of 2025, the number of methanol vehicles will reach 50,000, and 200 methanol fuel filling stations for vehicles will be built. The objectives and tasks of promotion and application have been defined, and the division of responsibilities of relevant departments in provinces and municipalities and state governments have been formulated.
On April 13 this year, Yunnan Provincial Department of Commerce, provincial Development and Reform Commission, provincial Public Security Department and other 9 units jointly issued the "Notice on further standardizing Yunnan Provincial auto fuel oil market related work", pointing out that in order to standardize the auto fuel oil market order, All alternative fuels (such as alcohol ether fuel, alcohol based fuel, clean fuel for vehicle, except natural gas) that have the same purpose as gasoline, kerosene and diesel and are applicable to vehicles with ordinary ignition engine and pressure combustion engine are regarded as refined oil and included in the management of refined oil. The quality standards of their products must meet the current national standards or regulations for refined oil.
Experts believe that green methanol not only meets the requirements of energy security, but also forms an economic chain of methanol. Under the background of the current Russia-Ukraine war and European energy crisis, methanol can play a greater role.
In terms of value creation and development prospects, Chen Maogao team firmly believes that the company's methanol project industry development is full of unlimited potential with favorable national policies, care and support from leaders at all levels, good business environment and cooperative partnership, sustainable scientific and technological innovation ability and talent team. It will also help lead the industry to integrate into the theme of the era of green and low-carbon construction faster and better, and make due achievements and contributions to the energy revolution, the "largest country".
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