The Carbon Peak And The Path Of Carbon Reduction in The Stainless Steel Industry

"As the focus of the steel industry, the future will face the challenges of'relative constraints' on carbon emission intensity,'absolute constraints' on total carbon emissions, and severe'carbon economy'." On October 14, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Metallurgical Industry Planning and Research Institute Li Xinchuang, academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and chief consultant of the Zhongguancun Stainless and Special Alloy New Material Industry Technology Innovation Alliance, attended the 2021 (second) China Stainless Steel and Special Alloy New Material Industry High-end Forum, said that the steel industry should adopt a positive attitude , Scientific action, development in carbon reduction, carbon reduction in development.

Specific to the carbon peak and carbon reduction path of the stainless steel industry, Li Xinchuang believes that specific considerations and actions should be made from six aspects. The first is to promote a green layout. Unreasonable layout will bring a lot of invalid carbon emissions. Therefore, industrial layout should be optimized, green logistics should be increased, green products throughout the life cycle should be promoted, and a higher level of dynamic balance between supply and demand should be promoted. The second is to save energy and improve energy efficiency, by promoting advanced and applicable energy-saving and low-carbon technologies, increasing the rate of self-generation of waste heat and energy, and the application of digital and intelligent technologies. The third is to optimize energy use and process structure, such as the optimization of raw fuel structure, and make full use of new energy and renewable energy such as solar energy, and improve the recycling of scrap steel resources. The fourth is to build a circular economy industrial chain, promote regional energy integration, improve the utilization of solid waste resources, and promote co-production of steel and chemical products. Fifth, the application of breakthrough low-carbon technologies, such as hydrogen smelting process, oxygen blast furnace and non-blast furnace smelting, carbon capture utilization and storage technology. Sixth, system construction and policy system support.

Li Xinchuang said that to innovate and promote carbon peaking and carbon emission reduction in the stainless steel industry, it is necessary to fully coordinate development and emission reduction, overall and partial, short-term and medium-to-long-term goals, according to different regional characteristics, development positioning, product process characteristics and green development level And so on, coordinate the relationship between the stock, increment and potential of the development of the industry. In the process of advancement, play the role of energy conservation and efficiency enhancement, energy structure transformation, technological revolutionary innovation, digital and intelligent transformation, and make good use of pollution reduction and carbon reduction, multi-industry synergy, and important tools for the carbon market.