Is the chemical industry a declining industry?
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The refining industry seems to be an industry with an excess of energy resources; is the fine chemical industry in a similar situation now? It seems that the large design institutes don’t have many projects these days
I don’t think so; I believe that many technologies still need improvement. I remember someone saying that in the future, chemical plants will occupy less and less space, and the equipment used will also become smaller – and this will depend on technological progress.
Look at the cost-benefit ratio. After all, there is significant pressure on the environment these days, and the development model of sacrificing the environment for growth, as was the case in the past, has basically reached its end. It can’t be said that the chemical industry is a declining industry; rather, it’s at a bottleneck right now. The fact that there are fewer research projects carried out by domestic research institutes might give you this illusion. After all, there are fewer chemical plants today that operate with low standards and minimal investment, and such projects are now harder to get approved, if not impossible at all. Moreover, domestic research institutes are generally unable to handle more advanced projects. Having worked on several projects in recent years, I’ve come to realize even more clearly that the times when domestic research institutes could simply purchase outdated foreign projects, adapt them locally, and thereby guarantee profits are long gone. If these institutes continue to lack ambition, things will only get worse for them
Definitely not; there are currently higher requirements for people with advanced education
The refining industry can transform itself – why must it cling to one approach?
If you consider the prospects in chemical engineering, then there’s nothing that can be done
The current large-scale chemical industry is facing certain difficulties due to factors such as slowing demand, rising labor costs, environmental pollution, and raw material costs (especially imported raw materials), but these issues also exist in other industries. Workers in the chemical industry can also consider switching to other related sectors, such as consumer chemicals, light chemicals, materials chemistry, and new energy industries.
In this era of high technology, outdated chemical plants will eventually be phased out, and environmental requirements are becoming increasingly strict