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Look at the frontier
Recently, the internationally renowned catalysis expert, Academician Tsubaki Fanli of the Japanese Academy of Engineering (currently the founding director of the Low Carbon Energy Conversion Center of the University of Toyama, Japan) and his team have developed the technology of using carbon dioxide to produce butadiene rubber tires.
The related paper was published in Chem (IF23.5) under the title "Carbon-neutral butadiene rubber from CO2". Professor Wang Kangzhou from Ningxia University is the first author, and Professor Wang Yang from China University of Petroleum (East China), Professor Tadashi Nakaji-Hirabayashi from Toyama University in Japan, and Academician Tsubaki Fanli are the co-corresponding authors.
Whether it is a fuel vehicle or a new energy vehicle, tires have always been irreplaceable key functional units, and their use is not affected by the adjustment and transformation of energy structure. In addition, carbon dioxide is the main component of greenhouse gases, and the global annual emissions have exceeded 35 billion tons, bringing a series of environmental and ecological problems such as climate change, sea level rise, and seawater acidification.
Academician Tsubaki Fanli has developed a new catalytic system to achieve the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to ethanol. At the time, this was a very forward-looking research result. Subsequently, Academician Chun Fanli led the team to successively conquer the ethanol-to-butadiene and butadiene polymerization rubber technology, and opened up the most critical technical route for carbon dioxide butadiene rubber tires.
With the above route, the team has realized the utilization of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide as a resource, from chemicals to products. At present, the technology route is already being scaled-up, and it is expected to build a 10,000-ton demonstration and application plant in the future.
Technical Value Observation
The research group uses green, low-carbon or even zero-carbon or carbon-negative technical routes to prepare butadiene rubber tires, which can make tire production get rid of the over-dependence on traditional fossil raw materials, and has the dual significance of carbon reduction and green production process development.
As a sustainable circular technology, it is finally expected to be industrialized by the end of 2029. In addition to being used in the production of tires, the technology will also attract other industries that have a demand for butadiene rubber, making it an ideal technology choice for a wide range of industries.
Under this utilization model, the team said that in the future, it may lead to the use of carbon dioxide to produce new technical routes such as plastics, diamonds, clothes, and bread, and even cover all aspects of clothing, food, housing, and transportation.
This technology is expected to be applied to the midstream of the energy conservation and environmental protection industry chain. The upstream of the energy conservation and environmental protection industry chain is mainly raw material suppliers including steel, electronics, non-ferrous metals, plastics, etc., which provide raw materials for the production and implementation of energy conservation and environmental protection products, and their price fluctuations directly affect the cost of energy conservation and environmental protection industry, and then have an impact on the profits of subdivided industries. The downstream of the industrial chain of energy conservation and environmental protection industry mainly includes electric power, steel, construction, chemical industry, machinery manufacturing, and municipal construction industries. The industrial sector and government departments are important demanders of energy conservation and environmental protection.
Macro Market Watch
According to the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the development of circular economy, by 2025, the output rate of major resources will increase by about 20% compared with 2020, the energy consumption and water consumption per unit of GDP will be reduced by about 13.5% and 16% respectively compared with 2020, the comprehensive utilization rate of crop straw will remain above 86%, the comprehensive utilization rate of bulk solid waste will reach 60%, and the comprehensive utilization rate of construction waste will reach 60% The utilization of waste paper reached 60 million tons, the utilization of scrap steel reached 320 million tons, and the output of recycled non-ferrous metals reached 20 million tons, of which the output of recycled copper, recycled aluminum and recycled lead reached 4 million tons, 11.5 million tons and 2.9 million tons respectively, and the output value of the resource recycling industry reached 5 trillion yuan.
Since 2021, the investment trends of representative enterprises in the energy conservation and environmental protection industry have mainly included investment in production expansion, acquisition of companies to deploy big data and artificial intelligence business, and investment in the establishment of new companies. The latest investment trends of representative enterprises in the energy conservation and environmental protection industry are as follows:
Driven by a series of goals and plans for "carbon neutrality and carbon peaking" and the "14th Five-Year Plan", the scale of the mainland's energy conservation and environmental protection industry will continue to expand. According to forward-looking analysis and forecast, the output value of the mainland's energy conservation and environmental protection industry is expected to exceed 19 trillion yuan by 2027.
Heat map of China's energy-saving and environmental protection technology track
According to the forward-looking industry heat map, the current key technologies of energy conservation and environmental protection are mainly distributed in the southeast coastal areas, from north to south there are Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Guangdong and other provinces, of which Guangdong Province has the largest number of enterprises, especially Shenzhen has become a key development area. These urban agglomerations have invested a lot of policy, capital, environment and human resources in energy conservation and environmental protection research and development, and have become potential energy conservation and environmental protection technology development centers. According to the distribution of heat maps, South China has great potential to become a leading area for energy-saving and environmental protection technologies. Focus on Futian District, Bao'an District and Longhua District of Shenzhen, Kaifu District of Changsha City, Yanta District of Xi'an City and other places, as well as the investment environment and potential market for the development of energy conservation and environmental protection industry in these places.
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