A few days ago, at the national main event of the 2024 National Low Carbon Day, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment officially released the list of selected green and low-carbon typical cases in 2023. The case of "Smart and Green "Double Five-Star" Port Construction Practice of Qingdao Port Automation Terminal in Shandong Port" recommended by Qingdao Ecological Environment Bureau and relevant units stood out and was successfully selected as a typical case of enterprises. This is the second consecutive year that the city's typical case has been publicized and promoted by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, following the selection of Lingshan Island, the country's first independent carbon-negative island - Lingshan Island, Qingdao West Coast New Area, which was selected as a typical case in the community category in 2022.
It is understood that in order to further enhance the green and low-carbon awareness of the whole society, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment launched a collection of typical cases, setting up five categories, including parks, enterprises, communities, individuals, and green and low-carbon public participation practice bases, and 311 green and low-carbon typical cases across the country participated in the evaluation. After the recommendation of local organizations, expert deliberation, publicity and other links, a total of 54 cases were selected, and the "Smart and Green "Double Five-Star" Port Construction Practice of Qingdao Port Automation Terminal in Shandong Port stood out from the list and was one of the 9 enterprise cases. It fully demonstrates the road of green port innovation and development, and sets a benchmark for high-quality development for industry enterprises.
Located on the south bank of Qianwan Port Area, Qingdao West Coast New Area, Shandong Port Qingdao Port Fully Automated Container Terminal, is the world's leading and Asia's first truly automated container terminal and the first "hydrogen + 5G" smart green terminal, as well as the country's first smart and green "double five-star" port enterprise recognized by the industry. Guided by green, low-carbon and high-quality development, the company has formulated and implemented the "14th Five-Year Plan for Green Port Construction", promoted the construction of smart and green ports, created a number of replicable and promotable green and low-carbon port model projects, explored a number of new energy application technologies and smart port management solutions suitable for ports, and led the future green and low-carbon development direction of ports.
Photovoltaic power generation is fully covered
The company vigorously promotes the green and low-carbon transformation of energy supply and consumption, adheres to the principle of "building as much as possible", promotes the adaptation of distributed photovoltaic power generation to the environment and buildings in the port area, and completes the full coverage of photovoltaic construction in areas such as bridge crane rooms, warehouses, office buildings, and substations, with a photovoltaic transformation project of about 8,600 square meters in Hong Kong, with an annual power generation capacity of more than 1.7 million kilowatt hours and a reduction of 1,500 tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
"Hydrogen into 10,000 homes" leads the demonstration
The company closely follows the new trend of the international energy technology revolution, participates in the "Hydrogen into Ten Thousand Homes" demonstration project of the Ministry of Science and Technology, takes the lead in introducing hydrogen power into large port machinery, independently develops the first hydrogen-powered rail crane in China, and builds the first hydrogen energy application demonstration port in China. Develop hydrogen fuel cell and lithium battery energy management systems, strive to optimize energy management and system energy consumption, reduce carbon emissions by about 3.5 kg and sulfur dioxide emissions by 0.11 kg per TEU, and achieve synergy in pollution reduction and carbon reduction.
"Green" equipment is constantly being upgraded
Compared with the traditional fuel truck transportation mode, the energy consumption per natural container is reduced by more than 50% and the noise is reduced by 75%, which solves the problem of exhaust emissions from the root cause and provides a new model for the green and low-carbon development of container logistics. Compared with the overall battery swap scheme, the demand for battery capacity is reduced by about 75%, the weight of the automatic guided vehicle is reduced by about 15%, and the battery life can reach more than 13 years, which greatly promotes energy conservation and reduces environmental pollution.
Intelligent management is autonomous and controllable
Independent research and development of the integrated intelligent production control ATOS system, which comprehensively replaces and surpasses the original system, realizes the optimal operation path of terminal equipment, intelligent location selection of the yard, and combines the operation mode of the yard rail crane double spreader to greatly reduce energy consumption. Based on the intelligent scheduling of equipment and the intelligent energy management and control platform, the energy consumption in the process of terminal production and operation is dynamically displayed, and the energy consumption trend is summarized and analyzed by mining real-time energy data, and the business process and equipment optimization are guided to realize the intelligent energy efficiency management.
Shandong Port Qingdao Port Fully Automated Container Terminal has won more than 30 awards, such as the honorary titles of "Asia-Pacific Green Port" and "China's Top Ten Scientific and Technological Advances in Intelligent Manufacturing", as well as the first prize of Shandong Province Science and Technology Progress Award and the special prize of China Port Association Science and Technology Progress Award. The company's "Liangang Innovation Team" was awarded the honorary title of "Model of the Times" by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Zhang Liangang, the team leader, was awarded the "Person of the Year 2023 Who Moved China". With the support of independent scientific and technological innovation, the company is actively building a pilot demonstration model for the high-quality development of smart and green ports, and contributing "Chinese wisdom" and "Chinese solutions" to the construction of global smart and green ports.
The port is the epitome of Qingdao's unswerving efforts to promote green, low-carbon and high-quality development. In the future, Qingdao will pay more attention to carbon reduction to drive pollution reduction, promote carbon reduction through pollution reduction, and realize the synergy of pollution reduction and carbon reduction, so that Qingdao's "green" background color will be more distinct and the "low-carbon" temperament will be more attractive.