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Urumqi Petrochemical’s Path to Green Development Author/Source: Urumqi Petrochemical Online Date: 2022-06-06 Clicks: 18 Recently, the **Ministry of Ecology and Environment announced that the theme for World Environment Day in 2022 is “Building a Clean and Beautiful World.” This initiative aims to promote the concept of ecological civilization, encourage a lifestyle that is simple, moderate, green, and low-carbon, and work towards creating a planet where humans and nature can coexist in harmony. What efforts has Urumqi Petrochemical Company made around the theme of \"building a clean and beautiful world\"? Let’s take a look today~ On June 2, Liu Jiang and Liang Lünli, monitoring technicians from the Environmental Protection Department of Urumqi Petrochemical Company’s Research Institute, carried professional equipment to the top platform of the 80-meter-high urea granulation tower to conduct particle matter monitoring. One hour later, monitoring results showed that the particulate matter level was well below local emission standards. Since the beginning of this year, Wuhu Petrochemical Company has implemented the requirements of the \"Beautiful China, I’m an Action Taker: Action Plan to Raise Citizens’ Awareness of Ecological Civilization (2021-2025)\". Centering on the theme of \"Building a Clean and Beautiful World\", it has carried out extensive activities related to the World Environment Day on June 5th, encouraging its employees to actively participate in green, energy-saving, and low-carbon initiatives, thereby fostering a positive atmosphere for sustainable development. As a refining enterprise in the city, Urumqi Petrochemical deeply understands that protecting the environment is an urgent necessity for practicing the concept of ecological civilization, safeguarding a green and beautiful homeland, and ensuring and improving people’s livelihoods. In recent years, Wuhu Petrochemical has pursued green development as its guiding principle, adhering to strict environmental protection standards. By upgrading environmental protection equipment, increasing the use of clean energy and raw materials, and optimizing management practices, it has worked to reduce pollutants at the source and improve resource utilization. Through this green transformation, the company aims to achieve sustainable and high-quality development. “The \"dual carbon\" goal serves as the guiding principle for the production activities of Wuhu Petrochemical Company. In line with the strategic goals related to carbon neutrality, Wushihua Petrochemical has developed a \"low-carbon checklist\" and is working on each item in turn to promote greener and lower-carbon production processes. The newly built water diversion project has been put into use to replace groundwater with surface water, thereby fulfilling the responsibilities for regional ecological protection. Accelerate the construction of a number of environmental protection projects, such as those aimed at controlling dust in the twin-screw granulation towers, ensuring that there are no exceedances in the online monitoring of air pollutant emissions throughout the year. Market-based management of carbon emission simulation was implemented within the company, resulting in carbon dioxide emissions in 2021 being 44,000 tons lower than the target set by the group company. As a pilot unit, it took the lead in participating in the national carbon trading and successfully fulfilled its annual obligations. Strengthen refined management to preserve the blue sky through stringent emission cuts. “The Thermoelectric Production Department implements the requirement of ‘making energy conservation the top priority’, reduces the consumption of coal by curbing the energy use of heavy electrical loads. ”Yu Guanghua, head of the Production Operations Section in the Thermoelectric Production Department, said that the production department has adopted the \"green electricity substitution\" approach as a key strategy. Party members and cadres have earnestly fulfilled the requirements for improved management, constantly identifying causes of problems, addressing loopholes, and tapping into potential. By replacing steam heating at the end points with electric or water heating, and by reducing internal non-production-related steam consumption, the standard coal consumption for power generation was reduced by 4.85 g/kWh, resulting in a savings of 22,100 tons of coal. Through technical upgrades, the Aromatics Production Department has established a VOC recovery system for benzene, toluene, and xylene in the intermediate tank farm. This system effectively recovers and utilizes the gases released from storage tanks. As a result, organic gas emissions have been reduced, and the recovered hydrocarbons can be used as partial raw materials for aromatics production, thereby increasing output without causing additional pollution. Mobilize everyone extensively to participate in energy conservation, emission reduction, and carbon cutting, and build environment-friendly enterprises. The staff from the Equipment Inspection and Testing Institute and the Maintenance Center pooled their ideas to find every possible way to improve the level of detection and control over areas that are inaccessible using LDAR (Leak Detection and Repair) techniques. Through nearly 3 months of effort, 5,088 unreachable points in the company have been converted into regular testing points, significantly improving the accuracy of VOCs emission monitoring. The union of Wuhu Petrochemical Company organized a series of environmental protection activities under the theme of \"Green and Low-Carbon: I’m Part of the Solution.\" Various departments, including the Materials Procurement Department, actively participated in these efforts, advocating for green and low-carbon production and lifestyle patterns. They encouraged employees to take responsibility for energy conservation and emission reduction, thereby fostering a culture of sustainability, and ensuring that the concepts of green and low-carbon environmental protection became deeply rooted in people’s minds. Wuhan Petrochemical carried out a variety of promotional activities for World Environment Day through both online and offline channels, as well as using multimedia and cross-platform methods. It integrated the theme of \"Working together to create a clean and beautiful world\" into all aspects of employees’ daily lives – their clothing, food, housing, transportation, and leisure activities. By promoting practices such as clean production, green transportation, sustainable consumption, eco-friendly dining options, and green delivery services, the company encouraged its employees to adopt concepts of clean production and a low-carbon lifestyle, making \"green actions\" a voluntary choice for them.