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"Why does such a good thing happen in China every time!"
After the mainland developed the world's only catalytic hydrogenation reactor, the United States, far across the ocean, was red-eyed again!
So what kind of magical "weapon" is the catalytic hydrogenation reactor, and why does this 100% domestic heavy instrument make the United States so envious?
Catalytic hydrogenation reactor is "where is sacred"
Although most people know that the catalytic hydrogenation reactor is a "national weapon" that is greatly beneficial to the development of the mainland, they do not know what kind of equipment the catalytic hydrogen reactor is.
As the name suggests, a catalytic hydrogenation reactor is a device used to facilitate the reaction between hydrogen and other substances.
For this catalytic equipment, the choice of catalyst is extremely important. Because in the process of catalyzing the reaction, the catalyst reduces the activation energy of the reaction and accelerates the reaction rate by providing a surface catalytic active site, so as to achieve efficient catalysis.
It can be seen that the working principle of the catalytic hydrogenation reactor is actually based on the interaction between the active site and the reactants on the surface of the catalyst, and the reaction of hydrogen and other substances is realized through the adsorption and dissociation process.
At present, the common catalytic hydrogenation reactors on the market are mainly divided into hydrogenation reactors, dehydrogenation reactors, reforming reactors and selective oxidation reactors.
Each reactor corresponds to specific reaction conditions and the catalyst required to achieve specific catalytic needs. Because there are so many types of catalytic hydrogen reactors, they are also used in a wide range of applications.
Catalytic hydrogenation reactors can play an important role in the production and utilization of hydrogen energy to create hydrogen fuel cells. In the industrial field, catalytic hydrogenation reactors are widely used in petrochemical industry, chemical synthesis and hydrogenation reaction.
In addition, catalytic hydrogenation reactors are also widely used in the field of environmental protection, such as catalytic reduction of pollutants in organic wastewater to achieve efficient purification and resource recovery.
It is not difficult to see that the catalytic hydrogenation reactor is indeed a powerful tool, which is of great significance to many fields of our real life.
The continent is facing the problem of oil resources
The reason why the United States is interested in the new catalytic hydrogenation reactor developed by the mainland is precisely because the mainland's domestic catalytic hydrogenation reactor can be specially used in the petrochemical field.
Since mankind entered the electric age, oil has gradually replaced coal and has become an important strategic resource related to human survival.
As a result, the price of oil resources has also risen, and some countries rich in oil resources, such as Arab countries, have also made a lot of money by exporting oil resources.
Nowadays, the price of crude oil in the international market basically fluctuates around $73-83 a barrel. This price is even much more expensive than gold.
But even though the price of oil has become so expensive, this resource related to survival is still frantically sought after by countries around the world.
According to relevant statistics, the mainland's annual crude oil production in 2023 will reach 205 million tons, which is actually not too much, but it cannot meet the mainland's demand for oil.
Because in the same year, the mainland imported as much as 563.99 million tons of crude oil, an explosive increase of 11% compared with the previous year.
It can be seen that even though the mainland is rich in land and resources, it is still a little stretched in terms of oil reserves.
Not only that, but even if crude oil is imported, it cannot be turned into usable oil in the first place.
Because in crude oil, there are generally impurities such as sulfur and asphalt, which need to be filtered and purified before they can be turned into usable oil.
In the process of purifying oil, it is inevitable that there will be a waste of crude oil. Therefore, most of the time, a barrel of crude oil extracts less than half a barrel of oil.
This problem is not only plaguing our country, but also the United States on the other side of the ocean. Although the United States is the world's largest power, it is very short of oil resources.
In July 2023 alone, the United States imported 256.384 million barrels of oil from abroad in a single month. It is precisely for this reason that the United States often searches the world for oil resources, and is known as the "oil police" by the world.
Domestic sharp weapons help the mainland solve the oil problem
However, with the development of the latest catalytic hydrogenation reactor on the mainland, China's oil resources have been greatly improved.
This latest catalytic hydrogenation reactor plays a vital role in the purification of crude oil.
The first is the use of catalytic hydrogenation reactors to catalyze and crack crude oil. Catalytic cracking is an important process commonly used in the petroleum industry to convert heavy petroleum fractions into light products.
In the catalytic cracking process, a catalytic hydrogenation reactor is indispensable. In a cracking reaction, a catalyst splits hydrocarbon molecules by cracking them down into smaller hydrocarbon molecules.
The catalytic hydrogenation reactor is responsible for providing the active site to promote the interaction between hydrogen and hydrocarbon molecules, and realize important functions such as hydrogen saturation, reducing carbon deposition and increasing product quality.
In addition to catalytic cracking of crude oil, catalytic hydrogenation reactors also play another important role in the process of crude oil extraction, which is hydrotreating.
This treatment is mainly to improve the quality and performance of petroleum products. In the hydrotreating process, a catalytic hydrogenation reactor reduces the sulfur, nitrogen, and aromatic hydrocarbon content of petroleum products through hydrogenation reactions.
Catalysts catalyze the cracking of sulfur, nitrogen, and aromatic hydrocarbons during the hydrogenation process, enabling the reaction of these harmful substances with hydrogen and converting them into harmless, low-content substances.
With the development of a catalytic hydrogenation reactor that can be used in crude oil extraction, Continental has achieved a huge increase in the efficiency of crude oil.
Originally, we could only get half a barrel of refined oil for a barrel of crude oil, but with a catalytic hydrogenation reactor, a barrel of crude oil can be purified to 75% of the original refined oil.
Although it seems that it is only on the original basis, 25% more refined oil is purified per barrel. However, the basic volume of crude oil is huge, and after accumulating a small amount, it can at least hundreds of millions of tons of refined oil for the mainland every year.
It is not difficult to see how significant the research and development of catalytic hydrogenation reactor is for the safety and development of the mainland petroleum energy industry.
After seeing that the mainland has developed a catalytic hydrogenation reactor that can be applied to the oil industry, the United States, which also has oil problems, is very envious and wants to "follow the cat and draw the tiger" to build the same catalytic hydrogenation reactor as the mainland.
For this "important weapon of the country", which is the only one in the world, the mainland is very well protected and strictly forbidden to sell it to the outside world.
In the future, Continental will further optimize this domestic catalytic hydrogenation reactor and strive to develop more efficient and selective catalysts to improve the efficiency and product quality of the catalytic cracking and hydrotreating processes. At the same time, the reactor design and operating parameters were optimized to further improve the utilization rate and performance of the reactor.
It is believed that in the near future, the newly upgraded domestic catalytic hydrogenation reactor will make greater contributions to the development of the mainland oil industry!
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