Energy conservation and emission reduction is a basic national policy for a long period of time in China. It is also a major issue facing the steel industry during the “12th Five-Year Plan” and even longer period. For the metallurgical equipment manufacturing industry, the energy saving and emission reduction of the iron and steel industry gives it a huge market opportunity and the prospects are very considerable.

Policy intensive introduction of energy saving and emission reduction is poised to enter the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”. The state has issued a series of policies and measures around energy conservation and emission reduction, and regards energy conservation and emission reduction as a major component and an important guarantee for China’s economic sustainable development strategy.

In February of this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the “12th Five-Year Plan for Industrial Energy Conservation.” It is clear that by 2015, the energy consumption of industrial added value in key industries such as steel, nonferrous metals, and machinery will decrease by 18%, 18%, and 22%, respectively, compared with 2010. . The energy consumption of the main product units continued to drop, and the gap between the advanced international levels gradually narrowed, and the efficiency of energy use increased significantly.

The energy conservation and environmental protection industry, which ranked first among the “Decision of the State Council on Accelerating the Cultivation and Development of Strategic Emerging Industries,” has now become a hot area for market investment. Some organizations expect that China's environmental protection investment will reach 3.1 trillion yuan during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, which is an increase of 121% over the 1.15 trillion yuan during the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period.

The Energy Development and Environmental Protection Industry Development Plan prepared by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Environmental Protection has also been approved by the State Council. According to a person from the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Chinese environmental protection industry will maintain an average annual growth rate of 15% to 20% in the future, and China will become one of the world's largest environmental protection industry markets in the future.

The "China's Macroeconomic Strategic Research" led by the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Ministry of Environmental Protection predicts that China's environmental protection industry will continue to grow at a high rate in the future. It is estimated that in 2010 the output value of the environmental protection industry will exceed 1 trillion yuan, reaching more than 3% of GDP. The “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” will reach more than 2 trillion yuan in the final period. By 2020, environmental protection will become the pillar industry of the national economy.

On May 30 this year, in the "Twelfth Five-Year National Strategic Emerging Industries Development Plan" discussed and adopted at the meeting of the State Council, the energy-saving and environmental protection industry was placed at the top of the seven key industries. In the planning, the State Council's requirements for the energy-saving and environmental protection industry are: to break key key technologies such as energy efficient and ladder utilization, pollutant prevention and control, safe disposal, and resource recovery and recycling, and to develop new energy-efficient, advanced environmental protection, and recycling of resources. Equipment and new products, promote cleaner production and low-carbon technologies, and accelerate the formation of pillar industries.

It can be seen from the policies, plans, and measures for energy conservation and emission reduction that have been gradually introduced in these countries that the implementation of energy conservation and emission reduction is directly related to the sustainable development of China’s economy and whether the country’s “Twelfth Five Year” development plan can be implemented. A major event. For the steel industry, it is imperative that it be fully implemented and fully implemented. It is a battle for energy conservation and emission reduction. For the current steel companies, their tasks are arduous and their responsibilities are heavy.

Renzhong and Daoyuan Iron and Steel Industry Business Opportunities “The 12th Five-Year Plan for Industrial Energy Conservation” puts the energy-saving and emission-reduction of the iron and steel industry at the top of the list, with a clear focus on process optimization and secondary energy recovery, and vigorously developing green steel products. It lags behind in equipment technology, intensifies technological transformation of efficient energy recovery, conversion, and utilization, improves the level of comprehensive utilization of secondary energy, and clearly points out related energy-saving and emission reduction technologies for comprehensive promotion, key promotion, R&D, and application acceleration for equipment manufacturing. Enterprises and technology R&D units have pointed out the key points for development. The "12th Five-Year Development Plan for the Iron and Steel Industry" also specifies the energy consumption and emission targets of iron and steel enterprises. For example, the key statistics include that the average energy consumption per ton of steel in iron and steel enterprises is less than 580 kg of standard coal, and the new water consumption per ton of steel is less than 4.0 cubic meters. Meters, tons of sulfur dioxide emissions fell by 39%, solid waste comprehensive utilization rate of more than 97%.

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At present, the energy saving and emission reduction of China's steel industry needs further improvement in equipment and technology; domestic iron and steel companies still have a certain gap between the energy consumption of sintering, ironmaking, steelmaking and other international advanced levels, and the efficiency of secondary energy recycling needs to be further improved. The management of energy conservation and emission reduction of enterprises needs to be improved. The mature energy conservation and emission reduction technologies need to be further optimized; the penetration rate of dry dust removal from blast furnaces and converter gas is low, sintering desulfurization is not yet universal, and the development of green and low carbon technology is still in its infancy. The task of CO2 emission reduction is arduous.