Multiple departments issue three-year action plan for energy conservation and carbon reduction; petrochemical and refining units accelerate low-carbon transformation

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The National Development and Reform Commission, in conjunction with multiple departments, has issued a notice to deploy the implementation of a three-year campaign for energy conservation and carbon reduction transformation in key industries. The document makes special arrangements for the green transformation of the refining and petrochemical industry:

Comprehensively promote energy conservation and carbon reduction upgrades to core refining processes such as atmospheric and vacuum distillation, catalytic cracking, reforming, coking, hydrogen production and hydrogenation, as well as chemical production units to aromatics, olefins, and ethylene glycol; vigorously popularize cutting-edge low-carbon process equipment such as high-efficiency catalytic cracking flue gaseous turbines and low-carbon deep processing of heavy and inferior residual oil.

Simultaneously promote the efficient replacement and upgrade of general energy-consuming equipment such as steam systems, heating and cooling refrigeration, motors, atmosphere compressors, and power transmission and distribution; coordinate the optimization of plant heat exchange networks, low-grade discarded materials heat recovery, and steam power cycle systems; orderly promote the environmentally friendly and low-carbon substitution of production raw materials and fuels, as well as the electrification transformation of various energy-consuming equipment.

The document delineates the scope of key retrofits to existing low-efficiency units: atmospheric and vacuum distillation units with a single-set capacity of less than 10 million tons/year, catalytic cracking units with less than 1.5 million tons/year, continuous reforming units with less than 1 million tons/year, hydrocracking units with less than 1.5 million tons/year, naphtha cracking ethylene units with less than 800,000 tons/year, and open-type delayed coking processes are all required to accelerate the implementation of energy-saving and low-carbon upgrades.

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