46 achievements in chemistry and chemical engineering won **Science and Technology Awards
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46 achievements in chemistry and chemical engineering won **science and technology awards. On January 8, the 2017 **Science and Technology Awards Ceremony was held grandly at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. In 2017, a total of 271 projects were awarded the **Science and Technology Prize**, of which 213 were general-category projects. Among the awards in the general category, 46 projects in the fields of petroleum, chemistry, and chemical engineering were honored. These projects spanned areas such as oil and gas, as well as new materials, which are essential for ensuring the supply of energy and key raw materials, to environmental protection and energy conservation initiatives aimed at improving people’s livelihoods and developing environmentally friendly industries, thereby demonstrating the industry’s strong capabilities in technological innovation. The \"Plan on Deepening the Reform of the Science and Technology Award System\" issued in May 2017 stipulates that **the total number of awards awarded for the three major science and technology awards each year shall not exceed 300. “Over the past 5 years, the total number of the three awards—Natural Science Award, Technological Invention Award, and Scientific and Technological Progress Award—has generally shown a downward trend year by year, remaining below 300 in total. In 2015 and 2016, the total number of awards across the three categories was 295 and 279 respectively. In 2017, a limit was imposed on the total number of awards awarded: 35 awards in the category of Natural Science Awards, 66 in the category of Technical Invention Awards, and 170 in the category of Scientific and Technological Progress Awards, for a total of 271 awards. ”A relevant official from the Ministry of Science and Technology said. Although the number of awards in the **technology category has decreased, the oil, chemical, and petrochemical industries, which place innovation at the core of their activities, have still achieved a number of significant scientific and technological accomplishments. Of the 46 awarded projects, there were 10 in the field of natural sciences, 13 in the area of technical inventions, and 23 in the realm of scientific and technological progress. Among the award-winning projects in the oil and gas sector, the Efficient Exploration and Development Project for the large marine shale gas field in Fuling, and the Key Technologies for High-Temperature and High-Pressure Drilling and Completion along with their industrial application won the First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress. The development of the Fuling large-scale marine shale gas field led to the creation of China’s first, and currently the largest, shale gas field – the Fuling Shale Gas Field – making China the first country outside North America to achieve large-scale shale gas development. The high-temperature and high-pressure drilling and completion project in the South China Sea has overcome world-class challenges related to such technologies, enabling China to become the **only country in the region capable of independently carrying out exploration and development of natural gas under high-temperature and high-pressure conditions**. Carbon fiber and modern coal chemical industry are the big winners in the chemical sector this year. In the field of carbon fibers, the project on processing technologies for high-performance carbon fiber composite components, led by Dalian University of Technology, won the first prize for technical inventions. The series of processing techniques and equipment developed as part of this project have made significant contributions to the development and production of advanced aerospace equipment in China. The industrialization project for dry-jet wet-spinning carbon fibers, carried out by companies such as Zhongfu Shenying, won the first prize for scientific and technological progress; it resulted in the establishment of China’s first production line capable of manufacturing T700/T800 grade carbon fibers on a scale of 1,000 tons per year. In the field of modern coal chemical industry, the comprehensive technology project for the efficient production of olefins from methanol, developed by institutions such as the Shanghai Research Institute of Sinopec, as well as the large-scale modern coal chemical technology project for the production of oil products/olefins from coal – which was recommended jointly by the China Coal Industry Association and the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation and implemented by 21 companies including Shenhua Group – won the First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress. In addition, another 4 outcomes recommended by the Petrochemical Federation also won awards. Among them, the new technology project for the quaternary alkylation of composite ionic liquids has generated direct economic benefits of 327 million yuan over the past three years, while the project on bio-based non-toxic plasticizers and their derivatives has developed the only domestic technology for the stable production of citrate esters whose quality meets international standards; these two projects won the second prize for technical inventions. The deep delayed coking technology for improving the yield of light oil, as well as the development and industrialization of high-purity lithium hexafluorophosphate – a key material for lithium-ion batteries – won the second prize for scientific and technological progress.
Second Prize in Natural Sciences: 1. Research on Raman spectroscopy of low-dimensional carbon materials; 2. Relationships between the structure and properties of certain organic compounds, as well as patterns in their reactions; 3. New strategies for the stereoselective and enantioselective direct transformation of aromatic compounds; 4. Environmental characteristics of halogenated persistent organic pollutants and principles for their physicochemical control; 5. Study on the structure and function of receptor kinases such as brassinosteroids in plants; 6. Fundamental research on the preparation and applications of high-quality graphene materials; 7. Structural design and performance optimization of high-performance photovoltaic materials and devices for solar energy utilization; 8. Theories and methods related to mass and energy transfer, storage, and conversion in multiphase flows for solar photocatalytic hydrogen production; 9. New methods using functional nanomaterials and microorganisms to remediate wetland pollution caused by hard-to-degrade organic substances and heavy metals; 10. Fire safety design and flame-retardant mechanisms of polymer/layered inorganic nanocomposites
First Prize for Technical Inventions: 11 Research and Application of Key Technologies for Ultra-Low Emissions in Coal-Fired Power Units; 12 High-Quality and Efficient Processing Technologies and Equipment for High-Performance Carbon Fiber Composite Components
Second Prize for Technical Inventions: 13. Techniques and Applications for Targeted Temporary Plugging, High-Conductivity Multi-Slot Modification to Improve Production in Deep Oil and Gas Reservoirs; 14. Techniques for Detailed Description, Numerical Simulation, and Efficient Water Injection Development of Fracture-Dome-Type Oil Reservoirs in Marine Carbonate Rocks; 15. Techniques and Applications for the Advanced Electrochemical Treatment of Industrial Wastewater Using High-Efficiency Nanocrystalline Thin-Film Electrodes; 16. Functional Adsorption Microinterface Structures and Technologies for Advanced Water Purification; 17. Key Technologies for Clean Production with Short Processes to Prevent Pollution throughout the Vanadium Extraction Process from Shale; 18. New Techniques for the Alkylation of C4 Hydrocarbons Using Composite Ionic Liquids; 19. Catalytic Synthesis Techniques and Industrialization of Environmentally Friendly Five-Ring Fluorinated Materials; 20. Techniques for the Efficient Production of Chemical Raw Materials through Structure-Guided Transformation of Hydrocarbon Molecules; 21. Continuous Green Manufacturing of Bio-Based Non-Toxic Plasticizers and Their Derivatives Using Microfluidic Reaction Techniques; 22. Comprehensive Preparation Techniques for Large-Scale, Highly Stable, and Lightweight C/SiC Monolithic Structures and Their Applications in Space Remote Sensing; 23. Graphite and Graphene Materials for High-Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries
First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress: 24. Efficient exploration and development of large-scale marine shale gas fields in Fuling; 25. Development and application of modern coal chemical plant systems for producing oil products/olefins from coal; 26. Development, manufacturing, and engineering demonstration of 600MW supercritical circulating fluidized bed boilers; 27. Key technologies for high-temperature and high-pressure drilling and completion in the South China Sea, as well as their industrial application; 28. Key technologies for the industrial production of thousand-ton-class high-strength/c hundred-ton-class medium-strength carbon fibers via dry spray wet spinning, along with their applications; 29. Full-process technology for efficient conversion of methanol into olefins
Second Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress: 30. Technology for significantly improving crude oil recovery rates through EOR using ternary composite systems and its industrial application; 31. Key common technologies for preparing high-performance fiber-based functional materials and their applications; 32. Key technologies for polytetrafluoroethylene-based filtering materials used in industrial flue gas treatment and their industrialization; 33. Industrial application of catalytic cracking catalysts that enable high gasoline yields while reducing emissions; 34. Advanced delayed coking technology for increasing the yield of light oils; 35. Development and industrialization of high-purity lithium hexafluorophosphate, a key material for lithium-ion batteries; 36. Key technologies for structuring polymer materials used in adsorption separation processes and their industrial application; 37. Research and promotion of technologies for producing high-performance ecological cementitious materials using metallurgical slag as a substitute for clinker on a large scale; 38. Technologies for deep cooling of flue gas to suppress corrosion at low temperatures, involving gas-liquid-solid separation and absorption; 39. Development and industrialization of key technologies for next-generation ultra-low emission heavy-duty commercial diesel engines; 40. Theoretical techniques and applications for preventing and controlling heavy metal pollution in water environments within river basins; 41. Technologies and engineering applications for advanced purification of urban wastewater using membrane integration; 42. Development of technologies for co-producing alumina from high-alumina fly ash and related industrial demonstrations; 43. Key technologies for rotary multi-stage pyrolysis and incineration of hazardous waste along with simultaneous control of pollutants; 44. Development and application of a national monitoring system for nitrogen and phosphorus pollution originating from agricultural fields; 45. Key geological assessment techniques and detection equipment for developing coalbed methane reservoirs; 46. Key technologies for lightweight design and manufacturing of heavy-pressure containers and their engineering applications