China Service Trade Fair·Academicians and Entrepreneurs Face-to-Face ②| Hao Jiming: What other work needs to be done to reduce pollution and carbon emissions in thermal power plants?
On the afternoon of September 12, the theme forum of the 2024 China International Fair for Trade in Services-the 3rd Ecological and Environmental Protection Industry Services Dual Carbon Strategy Academician Forum was held at the Beijing National Convention Center. The forum specially set up a "Intelligent Leadership Dual Carbon, Academies and Enterprises Peer-Academician Entrepreneurs Dialogue" session. Academicians and experts from the fields of dual carbon and ecological and environmental protection met face-to-face with entrepreneurs to discuss the direction of the dual carbon strategy for industrial development, technological innovation and In-depth exchanges on issues such as how to better integrate industrial innovation, and what new opportunities and new directions are available for the environmental protection industry.
What issues do entrepreneurs care about? How do academicians and experts answer? During the CIFTIS, China Environment APP specially opened a column titled "CIFTIS·Face-to-Face of Academicians and Entrepreneurs". Let's listen to the in-depth exchanges and wonderful discussions between academicians and entrepreneurs.
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Ding Zhenbo, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Shandong Province Environmental Protection Development Group Co., Ltd
my country's thermal power industry has become at the forefront of the world in ultra-low emissions. In the next step, what other governance work needs to be done by thermal power plants to reduce pollution and carbon?
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Hao Jiming, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, foreign academician of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Environment, Tsinghua University
The Ministry of Ecology and Environment has imposed approval limits on new coal-fired power plants, but there is no approval limit on natural gas power plants. Therefore, some companies have proposed to make the emission standards of coal-fired power plants consistent with those of natural gas power plants. Will they approve them? Therefore, the ultra-low emission standards of our coal-fired power plants are close to those of natural gas power plants.
Recently, I noticed that the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration issued the "Action Plan for Low-Carbon Transformation of Coal and Electricity (2024-2027)", proposing to accelerate the construction of a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient new energy system, through biomass carbon burning, green ammonia co-burning and CCUS, gradually reduce the carbon emission level of coal-fired power plants. This plan proposes that by 2025, all the first batch of coal-fired low-carbon transformation and construction projects will be started, and a batch of coal-fired low-carbon power generation technologies will be transformed and applied. The carbon emissions of relevant projects will be reduced compared with the average carbon emission level of similar coal-fired units in 2023. About 20%, significantly lower than the carbon emission level of advanced coal-fired units in active service. By 2027, the carbon emissions of related projects will be reduced by about 50% compared with the average carbon emission level of similar coal-fired power units in 2023, and will be close to the carbon emission level of natural gas power units. In the end, I hope to generate a certain amount of electricity. The carbon emission levels of coal-fired power plant systems and natural gas power generation systems are equivalent.
From coal-fired power plants with pollutant emission levels equivalent to natural gas power generation to coal-fired power plants with carbon emission levels equivalent to natural gas power generation, there are many things to be done. For example, how to reasonably burn biomass, how to reasonably burn green ammonia, where green ammonia comes from, and how to maintain high efficiency in coal-fired power plants despite peak shaving are all things we need to do.
