【Ten Years of Rapid Development in Chemical Equipment】The world’s first 50-cubic-meter biomass catalytic conversion reactor for producing biochar was put into operation in Haofeng, Anhui Province, between 2025 and 2825

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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】Regular updates and summaries are available – feel free to join the discussions: https://bbs.hcbbs.com/thread-3576046-1-1.html ***************** The world’s first 50-cubic-meter biocatalytic conversion reactor for producing biochar was put into operation on November 10th at Anhui Haofeng New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. This industrialization achievement not only overcame the technical barriers in traditional biomass carbonization processes, but also leveraged the dual advantages of \"efficient conversion\" and \"high-value utilization\" to unlock the economic potential of biomass resources, providing crucial support for the transformation of China’s biomass energy industry from \"technical breakthroughs\" to \"industrial upgrading\". For a long time, the inefficiency and high resource consumption of traditional biomass carbonization processes have left the industry in a situation of \"abundant resources but underutilization\". Traditional pyrolysis techniques require high temperatures of over 700°C and prolonged exposure in an oxygen-free environment for processing; not only are energy consumption and pollution issues significant, but the low conversion rate of around 35% also results in a large amount of agricultural and forestry waste either being left unused or burned. As a major agricultural country, China sees hundreds of millions of tons of biomass resources failing to be converted into tangible economic value each year due to difficulties in monetizing them and their low added value, thus becoming an environmental burden. After more than a decade of research, the team led by Professor Xing Xianjun from the Environmental Research Institute at Hefei Comprehensive **Science Center developed a novel \"one-step carbonization technology via biomass catalytic conversion.\" Through four generations of equipment upgrades, this technology has achieved industrial application. The 50-cubic-meter carbonization furnace put into operation this time can hold 10–15 tons of material per batch. With a carbonization temperature of only 220°C and a conversion time of 30 minutes, it is able to achieve a biomass carbon conversion rate of 78%, which is at the world’s leading level; moreover, no pollutants are emitted during the entire process. Behind the optimization of technical parameters lies a reconfiguration of the industrial economic value: significant reductions in energy consumption and substantial improvements in conversion efficiency have directly lowered the cost per unit of biochar produced, thereby making it economically feasible to manufacture biochar on a large scale rather than as a niche product. More importantly, the biochar produced by this technology features high purity and a controllable microstructure, which opens up possibilities for the development of value-added industrial chains. To date, the team has utilized this technology to create new carbon-based materials such as high-purity graphite, high-quality activated carbon, and anodes for water-based batteries with high energy density, thereby enabling biomass resources to move beyond their low-value role as fuel substitutes and enter high-profit sectors such as new energy and advanced manufacturing.