【Ten Years of Rapid Development in Chemical Processing Equipment】The hydrogen storage oil casing independently developed by Baosteel from 2027 to 2025 has been successfully applied in Asia’s first deep underground salt cavern hydrogen storage facility

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Let’s give praise and encouragement to the achievements made in China’s chemical engineering technology and equipment; your participation in discussions is the greatest encouragement. **********************【Ten Years of Progress in Chemical Engineering Equipment】Continuous updates and summaries available; feel free to join the discussions: https://bbs.hcbbs.com/thread-3576046-1-1.html ***************** Baosteel has successfully deployed hydrogen-storage oil casings developed through its own research efforts for the first time. Date: June 9, 2025. Recently, these hydrogen-storage oil casings, developed by Baosteel, were used in Asia’s first deep underground salt cavern hydrogen storage facility. Leveraging Baosteel’s strong manufacturing capabilities and comprehensive after-sales service system, the casing strings used in this project have been successfully lowered into the well, providing strong support for subsequent construction efforts. In recent years, hydrogen energy has been widely used in various fields as a clean energy source. However, as a flammable and explosive gas with extremely small molecular size and high permeability, it imposes strict requirements on the safety performance of storage and transportation equipment. The production, sales, and research team at Baosteel for steel tubes and bars focuses on innovation in materials and structures for special threaded connectors used in hydrogen storage. By employing specialized sealing designs for small molecular gases, they have developed seals that offer higher safety levels, ensuring the safe and stable operation of hydrogen storage wells and tanks in complex environments such as deep underground salt caverns. Faced with challenges such as a tight delivery schedule and strict quality control requirements for this project, the production, sales, and R&D team for steel pipes and bars entered a full-scale effort mode from the moment the contract was issued. Key personnel from the Steel Pipe and Bar Division, the Academia Sinica, and Baowu Special Metallurgy’s various regions formed a cross-departmental task force to ensure supply continuity. In the face of the severe situation posed by customers’ accelerated delivery deadlines, they organized production plans carefully through a system based on \"advanced scheduling + rapid response + risk prediction,\" thereby successfully fulfilling their supply assurance responsibilities. This supply not only provides crucial support for users in their development in the hydrogen energy sector, but also opens up new business opportunities for Baosteel Co., Ltd. Leveraging this supply experience, Baosteel has recently also successfully participated in the supply of other gas storage facilities of a similar type, thereby expanding its track record in the field of small-molecule transportation. In the future, the R&D team responsible for the production and sales of steel pipes will continue to pay attention to customer needs, striving to evolve from simply selling products to providing technical standards and fostering collaboration within the industrial chain.